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Strategic Plan 2023- 2026

The new Strategic Plan was co-created by the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy (SPOT) faculty, staff, students, and partners. The process took place at quarterly meetings over the span of one year.

First, the School's mission and vision were revised and updated to guide the strategic planning process.

Next, a series of interactive brainstorming sessions were held to identify the strategic themes most important to members of the SPOT community. Information from these sessions was synthesized by a steering committee, with ongoing discussion and feedback from participants. This development and consensus process led to the creation of SPOT’s strategic plan consisting of strategic themes and objectives.

Strategic Plan Themes 

The 2023-2026 Strategic Plan addresses four strategic themes, which are further operationalized with strategic objectives in the areas of education, environment and infrastructure, and research. The lightbulb image below illustrates the plan's four themes and three organizational areas. 

light bulb with four different coloured puzzle pieces each representing one of the strategic themes. Clock wise, Knowledge mobilization, technology and artificial intelligence, social accountability and community engagment and intersectoral partnerships.

Theme definitions:

1. Technology and Artificial Intelligence: The application of hardware, software and machines to optimize education, research and administrative activities.

2. Social Accountability: The responsibility to direct education, research and service activities towards addressing the priority health concerns of the community, region, and/or nation (WHO, 1997).  

3. Community Engagement & Intersectoral Partnerships: The processes of working collaboratively with and through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues affecting the well-being of those people, in order to bring about environmental and behavioural changes that will improve the health of the community and its members (CDC, 1997).

4. Knowledge Mobilization: A dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically-sound application of knowledge to improve the health of Canadians, provide more effective health services and products, and strengthen the health care system (CIHR, 2023).

Strategic Plan Objectives:

Strategic objectives in the areas of Education, Research, and Environment & Infrastructure were developed by the SPOT community. Each objective has a clearly defined working group, timeline, and initiatives to address the four strategic themes.  

Education

1. Identify emerging technologies and AI in rehabilitation education, existing expertise, and potential partners.

2. Engage people with lived experience for teaching, participate in committees, strategic planning, and research at SPOT

3. Foster ongoing knowledge exchange with strategic partners in the clinical community, with the goal of creating a more responsive curriculum.

Environment and Infrastructure 

4. Develop a code of conduct related to the discussion and implementation of policies, practices, and initiatives related to social accountability (i.e., Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)).

5. Optimize selected School administrative and communication processes using technological platforms.

6. Create optimal and inclusive environments through space management and relocation planning.

Research 

7. To develop a sense of collectiveness within SPOT research.

8. To increase awareness of and encourage collaboration through the technologies and methodologies utilized by SPOT faculty members.

 

 

 

 

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