Qality Assurance,strategic

strategic aims

In Education and health care

Graduate physicians who are prepared to serve the fundamental purposes of medicine. Stimulate changes in medical education to create a better alignment of educational content and goals necessary to meet their individual and collective responsibilities to society together with accreditation requirements.

Update the content and structure of education program for medical students to create a better balance among in-patient, ambulatory, and community based experiences.

Develop the Faculty's role in postgraduate and continuing education for the health professions through:

Provide young doctors with more opportunities during House officer / residency training to high quality care patients they are more likely to encounter in their future practices.
Direct continuing medical education programs toward formats that broaden and improve the specific skills and knowledge physicians need to better serve patients in their clinical practices.

In research

Emphasize importance of research and publication together with stimulating research, scholarship and innovation in professional practice among all members of the Faculty. Contribute to the advancement of knowledge and to the intellectual growth of both students and Faculty through scholarly activity including research.

Identify and selectively develop priority areas in research with special concentration on community needs.

Ensure that the highest possible percentage of academic staff employed are research-active and judged by peers to be of high national or international standing;

Promoting wide-ranging collaboration in education and research.
In medical profession & administration

Encourage personal, academic and professional growth and development.

Provide leadership for the health professions.

Seek to promote the faculty's national and international standing.

Achieve performance targets with the help of a more systematic planning system which integrates budgeting devolved to academic and service units with effective financial management.

To support the above with a comprehensive information strategy and high-quality management information systems;

Develop links within the local region and enhance links with the local community.

Promote educational and staff development that not only equips staff to meet their current needs but also prepares them for future changes.

Establish rigorous assessment programs to ensure that students and residents acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to provide superior patient care.