Strategic Plan

Education:

• Create innovative education strategies with the use of technology
• Provide appropriate recognition and remuneration for education-related activities
• Optimize recruitment, training and ongoing evaluation and feedback to educators
• Promote educational research
• Address educational needs through a fair and logical distribution of educational activities

Clinical:

• Move towards a single unit (physical and clinical)
• Foster clinical excellence
• Recruit a critical mass of generalists and sub-specialists
• Institute a formal risk management/quality assurance system
• Create universal best evidence protocols that improve quality of care and efficiency

Research:

• Develop a research strategy for Obs/Gyn that enhances existing strengths and draws relevant linkages to build external synergy
• Promote an enabling culture for research that includes universal participation and opportunity for research
• Engage the community in bidirectional knowledge transfer and creation pertaining to women’s health research
• Become a leading centre for women’s reproductive health research

Outreach and Linkages:

• Develop a national strategy for the department
• Develop a local strategy for the department
• Raise the departmental profile through public relations and branding
• Build two-way communication bridges on medical matters with the community
• Invest in offsite departments to transfer knowledge to surrounding communities

Organizational Development:

• Achieve virtual amalgamation of the department
• Promote accountability for behaviour through a code of conduct and process for enforcement
• Reorganize to capitalize on individual, subspecialty and generalist strengths
• Promote physician mental and physical health and wellness