# About the Department of Medical Education The Leni and Peter May Department of Medical Education (DME) embodies the educational mission of ISMMS through leadership and oversight of core educational programs and experiences. Partnership with Health System departments and institutes create opportunities for students to engage in para-curricular experiences to augment their medical education, and facilitates collaboration and innovation in education across the continuum. The DME is the nucleus for all educational programming and activities related to the MD degree. In addition, the DME contributes meaningfully to the success of other educational programs across the health system. Across the medical education continuum, divisions within the department include all areas of the learning environment – administration, admissions programming, bioethics, anatomy and functional morphology; assessment and evaluation; continuing medical education; curricular affairs, medical student research; the Institute for Medical Education; and student affairs. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://ismms-md-program.gitbook.io/medical-student-handbook/department-of-medical-education/about-the-department-of-medical-education.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.