Joint and Collaborative Initiatives
Reflecting the complexity of the Medical School's organizational and functional interdependencies, many key strategic initiatives will be undertaken as joint or collaborative projects. These projects will involve representation from multiple organizational or planning units sharing a common interest in a coordinated institutional response to a strategic need.
Institutional Planning Projects
Medical Education: Establish education as an essential element of each department's mission.
Finance & Administration: Create a planning and evaluation office.
A departmentally-based continuous strategic planning process will be designed and implemented under the direction of the Office of Institutional Planning. The educational missions of the departments will be documented and supported through this process.
A new Office of Institutional Planning will be established in FY2001-2002.
A departmentally-based planning process will be developed and tested in FY2002-2003.
Educational Facilities Projects
Medical Education: Undertake facilities improvements to provide:
- Small group learning spaces.
- Technology-enabled and virtual classrooms.
- Modern library space.
Graduate Education: Establish an intellectual and physical - home" for the biosciences graduate program, including space for seminar rooms, informal gathering, and food service.
Research: Develop contemporary educational facilities, including adequate space in research facilities.
The programming, design and construction of new educational facilities are critical to the successful implementation of a new medical education curriculum as well as planned initiatives in graduate education, postdoctoral training and information resources and technology. As envisioned, the Stanford Medicine Information and Learning Environment (SMILE) will break new ground in the delivery of medical and graduate education and information resources, reflecting the new model of biomedical sciences and emerging new relationships between information and its users.
The SMILE project will be pursued as a joint initiative under the direction of the Dean through a project executive committee consisting of the Senior Associate Deans for Medical Education, Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Training, Information Resources and Technology, and Finance and Administration and including the Chair of the Medical School Faculty Senate.
Preliminary SMILE program recommendations will be ready for Medical School and University leadership review by summer 2003. The project is targeted for completion in time for the 2007-2008 academic year.
Community Service Projects
Medical Education: Undertake facilities improvements to provide:
The Professoriate: Create a planning and evaluation office.
Advocacy, Public Policy & Philanthropy: Develop a Medical School Community Service program.
The Medical Schools' community service programs will be developed as a comprehensive initiative under the direction of the Dean and will include the service programs of the medical students.
Academic community service programs may also be developed within a reformed medical education curriculum in coordination with the Medical School service programs.
A program and agenda for a half-day medical school community service retreat in the winter of 2002-03.
Community service program recommendations will be ready for discussion by the Medical School leadership at the next annual Strategic Planning Retreat in January 2003.
Pending the outcome of the retreat, plans anticipate the initiation of a medical school community service program in the fall of 2003.
Diversity Projects
Graduate Education: Develop programs to establish Stanford as a national leader in bioscience education of under-represented minorities.
Postdoctoral Training: Develop programs to establish Stanford as a national leader in the postdoctoral training of under-represented minorities.
The Professoriate: Develop an institutional focus on faculty diversity and women in medicine and science.
The Professoriate: Develop an aggressive public awareness program to promote the medical school as a supportive environment for women and minorities.
The Professoriate: Develop community and secondary education faculty outreach programs to expose under-represented minorities to careers in the biosciences.
The Medical School will establish an appropriate mechanism through which to efficiently coordinate the development and implementation of constituent-specific diversity programs.
Career Center Projects
Graduate Education: Initiate a biosciences professional outreach center with knowledgeable and helpful professional staff.
Postdoctoral Training: Coordinate with the Office of Graduate Education to initiate a Career Center and professional development program with knowledgeable and helpful professional staff.
The Associate Dean for Graduate Education will work with the Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Services and the Director of Finance and Administration for Student Services to develop a plan and budget for a joint Professional Development and Career Center, providing career counseling and placement services for biosciences graduate students and postdoctoral trainees.
The professional development center is targeted for development and activation during FY2002-2003.
Traditional Research Projects
Research Programs: Promote collaborations between basic and clinical scientists within and Medicine the medical school and across the university through:
- Mitigation of existing "cultural" and geographic barriers.
- Inclusion of collaborating departments as partners in faculty search and promotion processes.
Clinical Programs: Strengthen opportunities and formalize mechanisms for clinical innovation within the healthcare delivery systems.
Clinical Programs: Integrate clinical research and emerging treatment modalities.
The Senior Associate Dean for Research, in collaboration with the Senior Associate Deans for Clinical Affairs and Information Technology and Resources, will work with the chair of the faculty committee on clinical research to develop recommendations for organizational and operational initiatives required to support the faculty's pursuit of clinical research opportunities and the eventual translation of research findings into clinical practice at Stanford.
An expanded charge to include translational research and translational medicine will be developed for implementation in FY2002-2003.
Specific recommendations on clinical research support and more comprehensive recommendations on translational research and translational medicine will be developed for implementation in FY2002-2003.
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