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EnglishWhat Are the Mission Areas of Duke University School of Medicine?
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Duke University School of Medicine (medschool.duke.edu) organizes its work around four mission pillars: education, research, patient care, and community partnership. The site's own mission heading frames these as "Mission Driven: Education, Research, Patient Care, and Community Partnership." Alongside those four, the school also highlights global impact and philanthropy, and ties fundraising to mission progress through its MADE FOR THIS campaign.
The four mission pillars
The homepage mission heading names the pillars directly, and the site's navigation and content sections echo them:
| Pillar | How it appears on the site |
|---|---|
| Education | Listed as a mission area and as a site section; connected to training the next generation of physicians and scientists |
| Research | Paired with the message "Research Saves Lives," describing work across North Carolina and worldwide |
| Patient Care | Listed as a mission area and as a site section, linked to Duke Health |
| Community Partnership | Listed as a mission area and as a site section, including local and statewide engagement |
How global impact and philanthropy fit in
Beyond the four pillars, the site's Facts and Figures page describes school statistics and key priorities across six areas: Education, Research, Patient Care, Community Partnerships, Global Impact, and Philanthropy. So global impact and philanthropy function as additional framing categories rather than replacements for the four pillars.
- Global impact extends the research and patient care mission beyond North Carolina.
- Philanthropy is presented as the funding engine that "moves research, education and patient care forward."
Where to find this on the site
- Homepage mission heading — "Mission Driven: Education, Research, Patient Care, and Community Partnership."
- Facts and Figures page — statistics and key priorities across the six areas listed above.
- Research Saves Lives — examples of how Duke research affects lives in North Carolina and globally.
- The Duke Campaign / MADE FOR THIS — explains how philanthropy supports the mission.
Mission and the MADE FOR THIS campaign
The site connects mission to fundraising explicitly: "Philanthropy moves research, education and patient care forward at the School of Medicine. The MADE FOR THIS campaign will generate resources to ensure our success." In other words, the campaign is positioned as the resource-generating arm behind the education, research, and patient care pillars.
Examples of mission in practice
The homepage's recent news items show the pillars in action rather than just as labels:
- A Duke School of Medicine researcher was named a STAT Wunderkind (research).
- Hispanic Heritage Month programming celebrated culture and inspired careers (education and community).
- Duke Health celebrated Pride in Durham (community partnership).
- A statewide hands-only CPR training attempt led by the school drew almost 20,000 participants toward a 30,000-person goal (community partnership and patient care).
- A feature on Alzheimer's prevention research describes the disease as one of aging that may be preventable decades before symptoms appear (research).
If you want the school's own summary of priorities and scale, the Facts and Figures page is the most direct starting point; the homepage mission heading is the quickest confirmation of the four pillars.