Goal Six: Leadership and Organization
Saint Louis University's School of Medicine will achieve its educational, research, clinical and service missions with a supportive culture and effective leadership, while being an excellent steward of its people and resources.
Objectives
- Increase philanthropic support of the School of Medicine.
- Create organizational infrastructure that promotes transparency, accreditation, professionalism, accountability, shared governance, wellness and stewardship.
- Ensure the SOM has strategic, visionary leaders that advance its mission.
Strategies
- Development
- Develop and execute a capital campaign.
- Strengthen corporate and foundation engagement.
- Establish defined SOM development organization accountable to the dean.
- Establish "engagement" protocols between SSM and SOM.
- Engage faculty to identify and engage with donors.
- Strengthen SOM alumni communication and database.
- Issue SOM annual report for potential donors and alumni, e.g. "Grand Rounds."
- Organizational Infrastructure
- Create a SOM clinical faculty manual.
- Update SOM constitution and bylaws.
- Create a clinical track for faculty promotion.
- Ensure SOM policies and procedures are up to date and posted.
- Develop workload policy.
- Update SOM webpage to include administrative offices.
- Build communication and engagement between SLU and SSM faculty and staff.
- Create an Office of Graduate Studies.
- Develop SLU-SSM professionalism standards and training.
- Prioritize financial resource allocation.
- Leadership
- Fill all department chair positions.
- Create an internal leadership pipeline.
- Develop retention strategies for faculty and staff.
- Create professional development programs.
- Develop medical education certificate program and academy of medical educators.