CHAPTER 2: Developing a Multidisciplinary Program

INTRODUCTION

This chapter describes our concept on how to develop a Mutidisciplinary Program.

FOUNDATIONS

• Establish a

  • Mission

  • Vision

• Define, update, and comply with

  • Policies

  • Regulations

PRIORITIZATION

• Unite all components of the program into a cohesive working group:

  • United, we are greater than the sum of our components

    • Unitum esse major summa partium

• Establish a 5-year plan

  

  • When planning to go from point A to point B, it is better to reach even further (point C) and then return from point C to point B

    • Defining the future back from the future

VISION

• Initial Vision

  

  • Establish the initial components of a program

• Expanded Vision

  

  • Expand it to make it complete

• Ultimate Vision

• Evolve into a nationally and internationally recognized program

COMPONENTS

In order to achieve these goals, specific plans for various components must be established.

INSTITUTIONAL PLAN

• Create stability

  • Recruit and retain staff

  • Onboard and educate new staff

  • Develop and implement performance metrics

  • Develop leadership training programs

  • Quality and safety management/assurance/control metrics

  • Plan for succession

  • Enhance supply chains

    • Make appropriate technology and infrastructure investments

• Innovate

  • Devices and programs

    • A catalyst for business acquisitions and mergers

  • Clinically

    • Education and training

    • Health care systems strategies

    • Competencies for patient care

    • Population health initiatives

    • Patient outcomes research

  • Resource utilization

• Brand enhancement

  • Increase visibility

  • Build relationships

• Continuously reinvent and adapt

  • Means

  • Motive

  • Opportunity

• Negotiate

  • Accountability

  • Return on investment (ROI)

FACULTY PLAN

• Empower and promote the growth of all members of the program

  • Promote diversity and wellness

• Attract and retain the leaders of today

• Develop the leaders of tomorrow

• Build careers

• Provide outstanding education and training to students, residents, and fellows

• Excel in patient care, research, innovation, and financial initiatives

• Collaborate with (and learn from) competing and noncompeting industries and institutions

• Develop a culture to further encourage and improve these goals

• Publish a bulletin or newsletter on a regular basis

CAPITALIZATION

• Clinical revenue

• Patenting and commercializing inventions

• Grants and research

• Naming of

  • Hospital sections

  • Centers

  • Clinical divisions

  • Institutes

  • Professorships

  • Lectures

  • Other

    • Rooms

    • Halls

PARTNERSHIPS

• Unorthodox relationships

• Supply chains

• Mutual benefit

Simulation training

• Physicians

• Students/fellows

• Other health care professionals and students

  • First responders

  • Armed forces personnel

  • Other law enforcement agencies

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