{"id":324,"date":"2019-04-29T11:31:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T15:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/?page_id=324"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:16:58","slug":"message-from-the-department-head","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/message-from-the-department-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Department Head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"190\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-323\" src=\"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/07\/Francois_Jose_03.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p> <p>March 2021<\/p>I wanted to follow-up with all staff, faculty and learners to provide you with an update on the progress we have made to date on the development of a new strategic plan to guide the department\u2019s direction and strategic focus for the next three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through December 2020 to mid-February 2021, a variety of stakeholder consultations have occurred\u00a0including 25\u00a0primary stakeholder interviews,\u00a0two surveys directed to all staff\/ faculty and learners within the department,\u00a0and a series of seven focus groups with key partners and interest groups, both inside and external to the university. The response and level of engagement has exceeded our expectations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>In total, we logged over 1,600 specific comments through the engagement process that will now be themed and a consolidated summary along with\u00a0the\u00a0results of an\u00a0environmental scan will be\u00a0provided\u00a0to the strategic planning committee to guide the development of our next\u202f strategic plan.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Over the next few weeks, the department\u2019s strategic committee will be meeting to update our vision, mission and values statements, and to identify our future orientations. We anticipate a final strategic plan being completed by June 2021.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p> Thank-you for your participation and interest and we will continue to provide progress updates to you as the process continues.<\/p> <p>&#8211; <strong>Dr. Jos\u00e9 Fran\u00e7ois <\/strong><br>Department Head, Family Medicine<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 2021 I wanted to follow-up with all staff, faculty and learners to provide you with an update on the progress we have made to date on the development of a new strategic plan to guide the department\u2019s direction and strategic focus for the next three years. Through December 2020 to mid-February 2021, a variety&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-default.php","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}