STRATEGIC PLAN 2016-2021 Adopted by [insert group] on [insert date]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The USC School of Pharmacy represents a school with a proud and distinct history that remains a place of innovation and excellence in pharmacy practice, research, and education. The following document reflects the voices of our faculty, staff, students, alumni, preceptors, and additional relevant stakeholders and formally adopted by the School of Pharmacy on [insert month/day/year]. This plan is firmly rooted in the University of Southern California s own current strategic vision of Matching Deeds to Ambitions which states a commitment to: 1) transforming education for a rapidly changing world, 2) creating scholarship with consequence, and 3) connecting individuals to the world. The USC School of Pharmacy strategic plan, incorporating the principles of the University's plan, will serve as a living document to monitor and evaluate our goals over the next five years. This plan will require a high level of collaboration across multiple stakeholders to ensure that we meet our goals, that our objectives continue to remain relevant, that we meet challenges effectively, and take advantage of any opportunities for greater enhancement of our existing goals. OUR VISION The USC School of Pharmacy will revolutionize health care through discoveries and innovations that improve people s lives. OUR MISSION The USC School of Pharmacy will advance and shape the future of pharmacy practice, integrative research, and educational excellence. OUR GUIDING VALUES Our vision and mission are guided by the USC School of Pharmacy s core values: Integrity: Our personal behaviors and interactions with others are honest, respectful, and ethical. Commitment: We are passionate about achieving excellence to enhance the quality of the School and our profession. Creativity: We transcend traditional ways of thinking to generate transformative ideas and outcomes. Collaboration: We connect talented individuals to maximize synergy.
OUR PILLARS Our mission is supported by the three major pillars of 1) pharmacy practice, 2) integrative research, and 3) educational excellence and encompasses five major areas within the USC School of Pharmacy including: 1) Pharm.D. Program, 2) Patient Care Services, 3) Laboratory & Health Outcomes Research, 4) Graduate Programs, and 5) Professional Advancement (see Figure 1). Each bar underneath the three pillars represents the multiple ways in which pharmacy practice (red), integrative research (green), and educational excellence (blue) overlap with these five major areas. FIGURE 1: The Three Pillars of the USC School of Pharmacy OUR GOALS AND STRATEGIES FOR 2016-2021 With the input of faculty, staff, students, alumni, preceptors, and stakeholders affiliated with the School of Pharmacy, four major themes emerged across groups that have been summarized into the following four goals along with our strategies to achieve each goal. GOAL 1: Provide a premium student experience at the USC School of Pharmacy. Includes admitting an academically talented and diverse incoming class, a studentcentered curriculum, a broad number of education and training opportunities, a robust experiential education program, an enriching classroom and teaching environment, a complementary co-curriculum, and a structure to support this experience. GOAL 2: Increase opportunities to engage, lead, and innovate in addressing major health problems that require optimal medication use. Includes increased engagement and leadership from multiple constituents to improve health outcomes for high-risk / high-value populations, increased training and participation in quality improvement, training students on the documentation of medication-related problems, development, engagement, and evaluation of alternative
payment models, and participation in applying and developing technological solutions to treat, manage, or consult patients and address patient medication therapy challenges. GOAL 3: Increase awareness and demand for education and training opportunities related to the USC School of Pharmacy s professional advancement programs. Includes increasing awareness and demand of professional advancement programs, developing advanced practitioners who go onto leadership roles in healthcare, education, research, government, and industry, increasing engagement among alumni, preceptors, and experts in the field, and creating and nurturing partnerships that advance knowledge and practice. GOAL 4: Foster research by drawing upon the unique capabilities of the faculty and students in order to disseminate and translate new knowledge for the benefit of society. Includes increasing external funding and research activity, promoting more interdisciplinary research, recruiting, supporting, and retaining a high caliber of faculty, and securing the appropriate resources to support faculty research.
GOAL 1: Provide a premium student experience at the USC School of Pharmacy. Falls under the following pillars: Educational Excellence and Pharmacy Practice Discussed as a goal/objective in: Group 1: Pharm.D. Program; Group 2: Patient Care Services; Group 3: Laboratory and Health Outcomes Research; Group 4: Graduate Programs; Group 5: Professional Advancement Strategy 1.1 Recruit, admit, and retain top applicants across all programs. (Group 1; Group 4) Strategy 1.2 Deliver a high-quality, student-centered curriculum. (Group 1; Group 4; Group 5) Strategy 1.3 Recruit, develop, and retain high quality sites and preceptors for experiential education. (Group 1) Strategy 1.4 Broaden the number of education and training opportunities for students. (Group 1; Group 2; Group 4; Group 5) Strategy 1.5 Build classrooms, teaching environments, and lab facilities to support active engaged learning, along with additional space for socialization and collaboration. (Group 1; Group 3; Group 4) Strategy 1.6 Develop a structure to support and enhance the co-curriculum including enhanced academic and career development. (Group 1; Group 4) GOAL 2: Increase opportunities to engage, lead, and innovate in addressing major health problems that require optimal medication use. Falls under the following pillars: Pharmacy Practice, Integrative Research, and Educational Excellence Discussed as a goal/objective in: Group 2: Patient Care Services Strategy 2.1 Increase the number of faculty engaging, leading, collaborating, or partnering with practices aimed at improving health outcomes for high-risk / high-value populations. (Group 2) Strategy 2.2 Broaden participation across multiple constituents in providing medication management for high-risk / high-value populations. (Group 2) Strategy 2.3 Increase faculty training and participation in quality improvement for both practice and scholarship. (Group 2) Strategy 2.4 Provide training to all students on documenting medication-related problems. (Group 2)
Strategy 2.5 Increase the number of faculty leading or engaged in practices, grants, or collaborations that develop, apply, evaluate, or refine alternative payment models. (Group 2) Strategy 2.6 Increase faculty participation in practices that incorporate advanced communication technologies to treat, manage, or consult patients. (Group 2) Strategy 2.7 Increase faculty and student participation in developing technological solutions for patient medication therapy challenges. (Group 2) GOAL 3: Increase awareness and demand for education and training opportunities related to the USC School of Pharmacy s professional advancement programs. Falls under the following pillars: Educational Excellence, Pharmacy Practice, and Integrative Research Discussed as an objective/goal in: Group 5: Professional Advancement Strategy 3.1 Increase awareness, demand, and recognition of professional advancement programs, including Continuing Education, Regulatory Science, Health Economics, Residency, Fellowship, and Global Programs. (Group 5) Strategy 3.2 Develop advanced practitioners who go onto leadership roles in healthcare, education, research, government and industry. (Group 5) Strategy 3.3 Increase engagement among alumni, preceptors, and experts in education and professional development related to advanced practice. (Group 5) Strategy 3.4 Create and nurture partnerships that advance knowledge and practice both nationally and globally. (Group 5) GOAL 4: Foster research by drawing upon the unique capabilities of the faculty and students in order to disseminate and translate new knowledge for the benefit of society. Falls under the following pillars: Integrative Research and Educational Excellence Discussed as a goal/objective in: Group 3: Laboratory and Health Outcomes Research Strategy 4.1 Increase numbers across multiple research benchmarks, including external funding, number of presentations at meetings, number of peer reviewed publications, overall publication impact score, number of faculty participating in study sections, number of major media citations, and number of patents and patent activity. (Group 3) Strategy 4.2 Promote interdisciplinary research within the School of Pharmacy and University-wide through joint meetings and events, multidisciplinary projects, and increasing the number of joint publications and multidisciplinary grant awards. (Group 3) Strategy 4.3 Recruit, support, and retain faculty through means of new faculty hires, protected resources and time for scholarship, support for conference attendance, assistance with grant submission, establishment of a mentoring plan for junior faculty,
establishment of internal grant support for new ideas, and development of incentives for successful grant submissions. (Group 3) Strategy 4.4 Enhance human, financial, and physical resources for research development, including the recruitment of research development staff, appropriate facilities and management to support high level research, and ongoing acquisition of research equipment to facilitate research productivity. (Group 3) This strategic plan refines and extends the school s work from 2010-2015 and continues to align with the mission, vision, values, and goals of the school and university. Emphasis will be placed on collaboration, monitoring, and documentation of our progress toward achieving these goals, and providing an ongoing assessment of resources needed to support our agents of change within the USC School of Pharmacy.