Faculty of Medicine Strategic Plan 2006-2010
The following excerpt (page 1) from the Faculty's 2006-2010 Strategic Plan gives a sense of our mission:
Faculty of Medicine – leadership to ensure progress in the advancement of knowledge, the promotion of health and the care of the sick
Our aspiration is to achieve:
- Clear leadership as Australia’s premier academic centre for health and medicine
- Acknowledgement and ranking as one of the top five medical faculties in the region, and
- Recognition and ranking as one of the top forty medical faculties in the world.
For us, this aspiration is known as 1:5:40.
We will achieve this aspiration through leadership which embraces reform in the four core areas of:
- Research and innovation
- Learning and teaching
- Student experience, and
- Community engagement and outreach.
This leadership will be supported by best practice, excellence and world-class standards in:
- Alumni engagement and philanthropy
- Capability
- Infrastructure and services, and
- Organisational performance.
Our performance in all areas will be devoted to continuous improvement, benchmarked against the best universities and other institutions throughout the world.
Our ambition will be informed by the University’s values:
- Community values – responsibility and service through leadership
- Stakeholder values – quality and sustainability
- Student values – diversity, equity and merit
- Staff values – collegiality and integrity
- Alumni values – life-long relationship and friendship.
Specifically, the Faculty of Medicine:
- Accepts that medicine and health generally are grounded in the value which our society places on individual human life, both in its quantity and its quality – this basic value sustains both practice and research in clinical medicine and the population sciences
- Accepts that education in the science and practice of medicine is of value to the society in which we live
- Values its educational and other roles within the institution of the modern university.
Complementing our values are the scholarly traditions of:
- Freedom to pursue critical and open inquiry in a responsible manner
- Using individual talent and University resources for core purpose
- Recognition of the importance of ideas and ideals
- Tolerance, honesty, respect and ethical behaviour, and
- Understanding the needs of those we serve.