Streamlining LCME Accreditation Readiness at Sanford School of Medicine
Founded in 1907, Sanford School of Medicine has long played a central role in medical education and healthcare delivery across South Dakota. As a community-based medical school with students training across dozens of sites and hundreds of clinicians statewide, the program needed systems that could support consistency, oversight, and accreditation at scale. Preparing for a site visit from the Liasion Committee of Medical Education (LCME), school leaders identified the need to modernize how evaluations, curriculum data, and clinical experiences were managed.
Challenge
Replacing decentralized, paper-based evaluations and inefficient curriculum and logging systems to support LCME accreditation
Solution
Program Management and Intelligence Solution: One45
Results
Successful LCME accreditation, streamlined evaluation and curriculum processes, and reduced administrative burden
PROGRAM TYPE
Medicine (MD)
PROGRAM SIZE
214 matriculants
REGION
North America – USA
Challenge
As Sanford School of Medicine prepared for its LCME self-study and site visit, several operational challenges became clear. Core academic and clinical processes relied on manual, fragmented systems that created variability and inefficiency.
The school needed to address several priorities, including:
- Replacing paper-based evaluations that varied widely across departments
- Reducing the time and effort required to manage CurrMIT curriculum reporting
- Improving the usability and reporting capabilities of student clinical logging
- Ensuring centralized oversight of evaluations, schedules, faculty, and clinical sites
With students distributed across a large geographic area, Sanford needed a unified system that could support accreditation requirements without adding administrative complexity.
Solution
Sanford School of Medicine adopted One45 by Acuity Insights to centralize evaluation, curriculum management, and clinical logging in a single, integrated platform.
This enabled the program to strengthen operations in the following ways:
Standardizing evaluations across the program
- Implement centrally managed evaluation forms used consistently across multiple student groups
- Enable easy updates and revisions throughout the academic year
Streamlining curriculum management and reporting
- Replace manual CurrMIT data entry with structured curriculum management
- Allow administrators to upload complete, current curriculum data without duplicating work
Improving clinical experience logging
- Introduce procedure logs and patient encounter logs to track student experiences
- Support competency tracking and comparison against program requirements
Supporting faculty and administrators through training and collaboration
- Deliver individualized training and responsive support during implementation
- Incorporate best practices informed by Acuity Insights’ Client Services team
Results
By implementing One45, Sanford School of Medicine established a centralized, accreditation-ready foundation for medical education.
The program achieved several outcomes, including:
- Successful LCME accreditation supported by consistent data and reporting
- Improved oversight of evaluations, curriculum, and clinical experiences
- Reduced administrative time spent on manual data entry and reconciliation
- Greater confidence in meeting accreditation standards across distributed training sites
Through the centralized systems and collaborative support provided by One45, Sanford School of Medicine modernized its core academic processes and strengthened its ability to support students, faculty, and accreditation requirements at scale.