2011-2021Strategic Vision

Discovery and Innovation for Health

Faculty of Dentistry

Faculty of Dentistry Academic Plan

Discovery and Innovation for Health

DEAN’S Message

The Strategic Vision outlined in this document embraces the Faculty of Dentistry’s Vision, Mission, Guiding Principles and Goals.

This design is the result of broad consultation with our various stakeholders and incorporation of a human system approach that facilitates positive change called Appreciative Inquiry. By focusing on “Dalhousie University, Faculty of Dentistry at Its Best,” this process ensures that our strategic directions explore what works well in the Faculty of Dentistry, in order to build on our strengths and embrace future challenges and opportunities.

I believe the strategic initiatives in this document provide the basis for current and future decision-making. These include:

faculty, staff, student recruitment and retention

succession planning

enhancing educational programs in dentistry, dental hygiene and graduate programs

enhancing our research initiatives

budget planning (short term and long term)

Join us – faculty, staff, patients, students, alumni – in creating our exciting future. By working together, we realize our mission to provide quality oral health care to all our communities through excellence in education, research and service.

Dr. Thomas BoranDean, Faculty of DentistryDahousie University

Faculty of Dentistry

MissionWe promote and provide oral health care as an integral component of overall health, for regional, national and international communities through quality education, research and service.

VisionWe promote integrity, competence and compassion while providing evidence-based ethical oral health care to all populations in collaboration with other health professionals.

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Faculty of Dentistry’s Appreciative Inquiry Process –

Engaging to Develop Our Academic Plan

DiscoverAppreciate

the Faculty of Dentistryat its best:

interviews, stories, themes

DestinySustain and work toward the future: re-discover, dream,

design

DreamEnvision results -

a preferred future for the Faculty of Dentistry: images, provocative

propositions

DesignCo-construct the preferred future:

strategic and section plans

Topic of Inquiry

Dalhousie UniversityFaculty of Dentistry

at its best

Faculty of Dentistry

Our overarching GOAL is to optimize quality of life through improving the oral health of our communities

Strategic GOALSA. Education expand the Faculty’s educational programs and develop stable academic programs to meet the oral health needs of regional, national and international communities

B. Patient Care develop a patient-centred Dalhousie dental clinic model and associated community clinics to promote and provide oral health care

C. Research develop and support focused areas of collaborative research that will enhance health, inform clinical oral healthcare practice, promote scholarship and inquiry, and be a marker of our academic excellence regionally, nationally and internationally

D. Environment provide a welcoming and supportive environment

E. Sustainability ensure appropriate revenue in order to be sustainable and responsive, and engage with academic and long term planning including succession planning

F. Recruitment and Retention attract, mentor and sustain the best people

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GOAL A

Education expand the Faculty’s educational programs and develop stable academic programs to meet the oral health needs of regional, national and international communities

• examine, renew and develop integrated evidence-based, learner-centred curricula

• increase mentoring and professional development

• develop interprofessional approaches to improve learner and patient outcomes

• instil the value and importance of life-long learning

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GOAL B

Patient caredevelop a patient-centred Dalhousie dental clinic model and associated community clinics to promote and provide oral health care

• develop a collaborative and integrated curriculum model among health care students to provide optimal patient care

• promote outreach activities to provide care for the under-served

• develop oral health care professionals who practice the highest ethical standards

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GOAL C

Researchdevelop and support focused areas of collaborative research that will enhance health, inform clinical oral healthcare practice, promote scholarship and inquiry, and be a marker of our academic excellence regionally, nationally and internationally

• promote and continue to build our capacity for interdisciplinary, community- based research that addresses oral health inequities

• facilitate translational research that is applicable to patient-care, oral health education, policy development and technology innovation

• stimulate discovery through commitment to a strong basic science program

• provide a dynamic, supportive research environment that promotes inquiry through mentorship and training opportunities in order to prepare the next generation of scholars and clinician scientists

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GOAL D

Environment provide a welcoming and supportive environment

• provide facilities that optimize the quality of oral health education, research and patient care

• engage students, faculty and staff in a manner that encourages retention, satisfaction and personal growth

• evoke in our students, faculty, staff and alumni their innate enthusiasm for discovery, new knowledge creation, curiosity about best practices and social responsibility

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GOAL E

Sustainabilityensure appropriate revenue in order to be sustainable and responsive, and engage with academic and long term planning including succession planning

• implement strategies that are sustainable, embrace succession planning and remain financially accountable

• formalize and align annual planning activities with stated objectives under the strategic and financial planning initiatives

• utilize best practices so that annual performance goals are met and revised annually based on the strategic and financial goals of the faculty

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GOAL F

Recruitment and Retention attract, mentor and sustain the best people

• Students - recruit and admit the best students, locally, nationally and internationally. - respect and engage our students as professional colleagues

• Staff - attract, support and nurture caring, innovative, and skilled staff

• Faculty - attract, appoint, develop, and retain world-class clinicians, educators and researchers

Guiding Principles

Together We

HELP our students develop professional identities as authentically caring, ethical, technically skilled practitioners.

RECRUIT faculty and staff who demonstrate innovation and excellence in teaching, patient-centred care, service and research.

INNOVATE to improve oral health care.

FOSTER life-long learning for our faculty, staff, students and alumni.

INNOVATE and COLLABORATE to ensure a balanced student-centred learning environment, grounded in the best available research and technology.

CREATE our destiny.

PROVIDE resources & opportunities to allow individual and team growth, evolve our curriculum, upgrade our facilities, and invest in people.

COMMUNICATE effectively and ENGAGE meaningfully with our patients to optimize their care.

ENSURE oral health is recognized as fundamental to overall health.

ENSURE patients achieve their oral health goals through excellence in education, research, access to care, outreach and innovation.

Student-centred

Professionalism

Excellence

InnovationLife-long learning

LeadershipFlexibility

Communication and EngagementAdvocacy

Patient-centred

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