MISSIONThe Department of Child Health at the University of Missouri-Columbia has the Mission of training superior physicians, fostering innovation through the sciences of discovery and application, and providing health care of the highest quality in the context of increasingly value-driven markets.
VISIONThe Vision is to be a leading resource in child health to the citizens of Missouri, and to achieve national prominence in pediatric education and research.
STRATEGIC GOALS1. Promote professional growth and productivity of the faculty and key personnel. The department will harvest the intellectual capital and collective wisdom of the faculty to develop a practical and effective plan that defines implementation strategies and outcome measures. The department will manage through participation, goal setting, and feedback.
2. Enhance the value of pediatric education for medical students, graduate trainees, and practicing physicians. The department will prepare students for a future of collaboration with health professionals, educators, and policymakers who collectively aim to help children succeed in school and in life.
3. Enhance research productivity and significantly improve the ranking among US medical school programs. The department will emphasize mentoring of faculty and physician scientists that contribute to strategic research priorities. Using current successful programs as models of excellence, the department will broaden the scope of clinical and basic research activities.
4. Enhance the accessibility, responsiveness, and uniqueness of pediatric services in Missouri. The Department will build partnerships with community colleagues to better serve children and families at the Children's Hospital. The department will strengthen educational activities that are meaningful to both the faculty and the community. The department will expand clinical faculty to enhance outreach programs in areas of practice where greater success can be achieved through targeted investment.
5. Increase and diversify external funding to support the academic mission. The department will establish long-term partnerships with federal and state funding agencies, private foundations, and Industry. The department will secure endowment to support pediatric education and research.
Goal 1:Promote professional growth and productivity of the faculty and key personnel
Strategies: 1.1 Define expectations of division chiefs in the department. 1.2 Define and annually update divisional and programmatic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). 1.3 Complete a Porter’s Five Forces Analysis and BCG Growth Matrix Analysis every two years. 1.4 Develop divisional and departmental reports of financial performance. 1.5 Define assignment of faculty in clinical, teaching, research, and administrative activities. 1.6 Implement Goal Setting practices across the department after training division chiefs and faculty on Management by Objectives. 1.7 Select primary measures of performance in clinical, teaching, research, and administrative activities. 1.8 Commit to completing goal setting and annual evaluation processes annually for each member of the faculty. 1.9 Commit to annual meetings between the chairman and individual division chiefs to monitor progress and development of divisions and evaluate performance of the division chief as mentor, advocate, and administrator. 1.10 Define and communicate clear departmental criteria for recommending promotion and tenure. 1.11 Develop a departmental compensation plan that rewards high performance. Goal achievement should be a key element of annual compensation decision making.
A challenge for the Department of Child Health is to empower faculty and promote and reward high performance. For individual faculty members, Goal Setting includes setting annual specific project goals in a participatory fashion and obtaining feedback from division chiefs and the chair. The process should contribute to a significant increase in departmental productivity in research, education and patient care. There is an important opportunity for the Department of Child Health to achieve its mission through participation, goal setting, and feedback.
Goal 2:Enhance the value of pediatric education for medical students, graduate trainees, and practicing physicians.Strategies: 2.1 Obtain endowment for a new Visiting Scholars Program. 2.2 Prepare specific divisional curricula outlining most important pediatric concepts for each rotation or subspecialty. 2.3 Identify conditions within each field of pediatrics for which educational efforts involve other health professionals (e.g. Obesity, ADHD). 2.4 Identify conditions within each field of pediatrics for which educational efforts should involve the professional education community (e.g. Child Abuse, Asthma prevention). 2.5 Identify pediatric issues that have importance to policymakers (e.g. School Readiness). 2.6 Create an endowed position in pediatric education to foster coordination of educational efforts for medical students, residents, fellows, and community physicians.
Goal 3:Improve the research ranking among US medical school programs
Strategies: 3.1 The research challenge for the Department of Child Health is to capitalize on increased financial support for biomedical research by NIH, national organizations, and Industry. In 1999, the University of Missouri-Columbia ranked 91st in NIH funding; the Department of Child Health was 88th. With your leadership in the School of Medicine, the department clearly has the opportunity to develop a pediatric focus on institutional research priorities. The department has nationally prominent senior faculty in diabetes, bone mineral metabolism, cardiology, critical care medicine, and rheumatology. In order for the department to move to the next level of pediatric excellence, it must nurture faculty that contribute to institutional and departmental research priorities. Using current successful programs as models of excellence, the department must solidify and expand its research and scholarly activities. A benchmark of national prominence would be for each division to have successfully competed for peer-reviewed federal research funding.
Enhance the accessibility, responsiveness, and uniqueness of pediatric services in Missouri.
Strategies: 4.1 The Department will build partnerships with community colleagues to better serve children and families at the Children's Hospital. The department will strengthen educational activities that are meaningful to both the faculty and the community. The department will expand clinical faculty to enhance outreach programs in areas of practice where greater success can be achieved through targeted investment.
Increase and diversify external funding to support the academic mission.
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