Quality Enhancement Plan

The Quality Enhancement Plan or QEP is a project aimed at interprofessional education for students at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. It plays a vital role in the school's ongoing accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). In 2005, MD Anderson's initial SACSCOC accreditation certified the quality of the programs, faculty and facilities of the School of Health Professions.

The 2021 QEP development process began in September 2018 with the formation of the institution’s QEP Steering Committee. The process used by the committee was intentionally designed to encourage broad-based participation from faculty, adjunct faculty, staff, QEP committee members and stakeholders. It involved a thoughtful review of institutional effectiveness data with a focus on impacting student learning outcomes. As part of the QEP research process, themes emerged supporting the need to provide graduates with skills necessary to function in highly effective professional teams and were confirmed as recent global events demonstrated the interconnected nature of all disciplines in providing impactful medical practice.