Department of Medicine Weekly Roundup - June 12th - Open call to participate in DoM Strategic Planning Workshops
About the DoM Strategic Planning Project
The DoM 5-Year Strategic Plan project aims to establish common goals and support for working together to achieve them, explore whether existing strategic priorities still resonate, establish new or amended strategic priorities as needed, update the Department’s mission and vision, and find the things that the DoM can collectively get excited about. The process aims to acknowledge that the landscape has changed and that the Department needs a strategic plan that addresses its current and anticipated needs, ensures learners, faculty, and staff have the opportunity to be truly heard, and is mindful of all of the competing pressures felt by the DoM community. In Phase I of the project, the team led by MASS LBP conducted eleven individual interviews with Department leaders and key stakeholders. Through these interviews, we have discovered common themes that we will explore deeper in our workshops.
DoM Strategic Planning Workshops
As part of Phase II of the DoM 5-Year Strategic Plan project, the team at MASS LBP is hosting seven interactive workshops with faculty, residents, and staff to develop and deepen a shared understanding of the Department’s strategic landscape and engage in focused discussions to identify critical actions for change and improvement. Each workshop is designed around one or more themes to encourage participation and robust discussion from specific groups and interests. These sessions will be guided conversations with about 15-20 others. The intention is to focus on solutions to the challenges raised in the first phase of our engagement. These sessions are your chance to influence the next strategic plan by suggesting potential actions it could include.
The Workshops:
Connection and Collaboration in the Department of Medicine
The DoM 5-Year Strategic Planning project is seeking to learn how to build better connections across the Department and its Divisions. This session will explore the challenges and pressures facing the workplace/practice/teaching environment and how the Department can work to address them. We’ll discuss what opportunities exist when the Department works harmoniously as a whole and what might deepen that kind of collaboration. Join us to share insights and shape future approaches to connection and coordination.
Date: Tuesday, June 17 - 8:30 - 9:30 am
Location: Online - Zoom
Open to faculty and staff
Register here
Department of Medicine Innovation & Sustainability
The DoM 5-Year Strategic Planning project is looking to gain insight and ideas on the financial sustainability of the Department within a growing and shifting landscape of academic medicine. This session will explore financial trends and pressures facing the Department, as well as the opportunities that innovation and entrepreneurship can bring. As more competitors enter the field of medical education in Toronto, we’ll consider what makes the Department stand out to donors, supporters, and high quality prospective learners and faculty. Join us to share insights and shape future approaches to Departmental sustainability.
Date: Tuesday, June 17 - 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Online - Zoom
Open to faculty, staff and learners
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Department of Medicine: Supporting Our People - Valuing Faculty
The DoM 5-Year Strategic Planning project wants to understand how the Department can provide meaningful leadership and support for its faculty. This session will explore how generational shifts and priorities, across all career stages, affect the future of the Department. Join us to share insights and shape future approaches to supporting faculty.
Date: Wednesday, June 18 - 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: Online - Zoom
Open to faculty
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Health System Transformation and Innovation
The DoM 5-Year Strategic Planning project will benefit from a greater understanding of the long-term goals of the Department regarding innovation and health system transformation. This session will explore how the Department can play a bigger role as leaders to promote positive change in the health system. We’ll discuss opportunities to make strides to innovate clinical care, education, and research and the resources that need to be in place to support this work. Join us to share insights and shape future approaches to innovation and change.
Date: Thursday, June 19 - 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: Online - Zoom
Open to faculty and staff
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Department of Medicine: Supporting Our People - Processes
The DoM 5-Year Strategic Planning project wants to understand how the Department can provide meaningful leadership and support for its faculty. This session will explore where institutional processes — like promotions, evaluations and CFAR — can be improved to achieve their goals while reducing administrative burden and raising the value of working in academic medicine. Join us to share insights and shape future approaches to some of the Department’s essential processes.
Date: Wednesday, June 25 - 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Online - Zoom
Open to faculty and staff
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Supporting Residents in the Department of Medicine
The DoM 5-Year Strategic Planning project needs to hear the perspectives of emerging physicians in order to ensure that the Department can learn, grow, and thrive in the future. This closed session, with no faculty in attendance, will offer an opportunity to consider what is top of mind for learners who are soon to be entering practice and how the Department can best support their priorities and needs. We will also explore the value of becoming an academic physician and what the Department could do to make this career path even more enticing. Join us to share insights and shape future approaches to supporting learners.
Food provided to those joining in-person!
Open to PGY3+ residents only. No faculty is invited to attend.
Date: Thursday, June 26 - 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: Hybrid: Department of Medicine Board Room at the C. David Naylor Building & Online - Zoom
Register here