Letters & Sciences’ mission is to improve healthcare through lifelong learning for clinicians, and in so doing, validate the value of these educational offerings to improving patient outcomes.

Letters & Sciences develops and implements scientifically rigorous education to meet the continuum of learning for healthcare practitioners, developing activities that advance learners’ competence (skills, knowledge, and attitudes required for performance), and that are evidence-based, reflect the most recent clinical advances, consistent with treatment guidelines, and promote patient-centered care.

Educating healthcare providers is a privilege that we accept as a formidable mantle of responsibility. Letters & Sciences has practiced and supported exceptional criteria for accuracy, integrity and regulatory responsibility. We welcome the shifting paradigms in continuing education that are emphasizing practice-based learning, implementing new metrics to assess quality and rewarding high-performance healthcare organizations, while calling on policymakers to support the development of information technology tools. In the context of continuous improvement of the educational delivery process, we endeavor to provide educational activities that promote lifelong learning, as well as collaborate with academic, professional, and regulatory institutions. With a transformation of CE underway, many aspects of the process will benefit, with the ultimate advantage to the practitioners and their patients.

At the same time that healthcare delivery is being remodeled and transformed, medical knowledge is accelerating at an exponential rate that is outpacing acquisition, especially in those therapeutic arenas (oncology, neuroscience, reproductive medicine, infectious disease) in which our organization primarily is focused. Cognizant of our role and responsibility to advance the pace of meaningful education to parallel that of emerging data and innovation, Letters & Sciences partners with ranking academic and clinical institutions, as well as professional societies, to fulfill this mission. Together, we focus on incorporating principles of adult learning to transmit scientifically rigorous content so that knowledge is integrated into practice paradigms to improve performance and outcomes.

The evaluation methods that Letters & Sciences employs depends on the educational format of the activity and the level of outcome that we are aiming to assess, applying the model defined by Moore, Green & Gallis in developing outcomes-based evaluations.

Letters & Sciences extends our responsibility to a “tithing” philosophy in which we commit a percentage of our work to the public good without compensation. These pro bono services for activities and programs are identified based on meaningful areas of need in oncology, neuropsychiatry, reproductive medicine and infectious disease (including HIV/AIDS). Medical and nursing societies, non-profit organizations, universities, and medical centers interested in our pro bono services are encouraged to submit requests for consideration.