Panel: Delivering On The Mission
MEDICAL EDUCATION
- Consolidation and stabilization of the Scholarly Concentrations.
- Improving quality and increasing oversight, faculty participation and accountability for the "Education Product".
- Motivating and creating incentives for teaching.
- Funding education initiatives.
GRADUATE EDUCATION
- Leveraging off of the University's CGE report (e.g., collaborative learning and leadership training).
- Improving the "product" we offer (e.g., through enhanced diversity).
- Maintaining excellent programs under dire financial constraints (e.g., rising tuition, shrinking NIH).
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING
- Preparing post-docs for diverse careers?
- Improving diversity in a strictly PI-controlled process?
- Improving mentoring of (and by) post-docs?
RESEARCH
- Affirming the place and importance of basic research in the translational research effort of the medical school.
- Ensuring the financial stability of our research infrastructure (including the VSC, SPCTRM and all other cores). Maintaining and enhancing our research infrastructure in the current economic environment.
- Preparing for a decline in NIH support for research.
- Building content into the institutes in the absence of real estate and keep their momentum.
- Building the translational research infrastructure.
- Protecting core research mission from compliance issues.
CLINICAL CARE
- Securing adequate clinical facilities to support our clinical and academic missions.
- Ensuring a sufficient number of physicians for our clinical programs.
- Creating a sustainable and sufficient financial model for the physicians' practice.
- Engaging clinical faculty in translational research.