Strategic Planning in Health Professions Education: Scholarship or Management?

Strategic planning, in its various forms, is an evaluation practice that is ubiquitous in academic medicine. However, published reports of strategic planning at academic health centers usually ignore theory. In a 2017 strategic planning exercise at the Wilson Centre, a scholarly model evolved using...

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Veröffentlicht in:Academic Medicine 2019-10, Vol.94 (10), p.1455-1460
Hauptverfasser: Byrne, Niall, Cole, Donald C, Woods, Nicole, Kulasegaram, Kulamakan, Martimianakis, Maria Athina, Richardson, Lisa, Whitehead, Cynthia R
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Zusammenfassung:Strategic planning, in its various forms, is an evaluation practice that is ubiquitous in academic medicine. However, published reports of strategic planning at academic health centers usually ignore theory. In a 2017 strategic planning exercise at the Wilson Centre, a scholarly model evolved using a theoretical framework and a research approach rather than a conventional management model, which typically identifies outcomes and how to achieve them. After completing this exercise, the authors considered the larger questions of the assumptions underpinning different models of strategic planning and strategic planning’s value to academic medicine. To elaborate on these questions, the authors examine relevant literature and set out the Wilson Centre’s emergent scholarly model. They describe the main features of the scholarly model, including ways it differs from a management approach and from the typical approach to strategic planning in the authors’ experience and in the field of health professions education research. The authors also share lessons learned as a means to encourage consideration by other academic organizations.
ISSN:1040-2446
1938-808X
DOI:10.1097/ACM.0000000000002852