About Physical Therapy
2021-2026
Strategic Plan
Implementing the Strategic Plan
Our strategic plan is aspirational but thoughtful, balanced across School activities and represents the beginning of our five-year journey. Each year we will set annual priorities to focus our implementation of the strategy map.
Performance scorecards for each prioritized strategy of excellence and operational process will be used to monitor our progress and impact over time. We will establish meaningful metrics, identify metric baselines and create targets. Performance will be reviewed against targets to identify our successes and gaps in progress requiring action.
Priorities for Action: Year 1
Students
Strategies of Excellence
- We celebrate diversity and create belonging
- We provide experiential learning opportunities for lifelong success
- We develop, evaluate and implement creative solutions in research, practice and education
- We develop researchers, clinicians and leaders of the future
Operational Processes
- Build SPT community and engagement
- Optimize student outreach, recruitment and tracking to build inclusive and diverse programs
- Create equitable admissions processes
- Reimagine Elborn to create a unique, multi-purpose and collaborative space
- Provide research and educational opportunities in clinical and community settings that engage diverse teams
- Create novel clinical placement experiences
- Leverage technology and clinical experts to create and deliver experiential learning opportunities
- Build a new SPT research theme of educational research
- Develop and evaluate creative, evidence-informed methods of teaching and learning
- Ensure SPT programs are dynamic and innovative with robust quality review processes
- Investigate and incorporate technology into research, practice and education
- Upgrade, integrate and enhance support for technology across all spaces in Elborn
- Facilitate faculty development and excellence through enhanced onboarding, mentorship and professional development
Patients
Strategies of Excellence
- We lead in high-impact research to enhance patient outcomes
Operational Processes
- Create an impact measurement plan to quantify the scholarly, clinical and societal impact of SPT research(ers)
- Clearly communicate SPT research themes and evidence of impact
- Enable grant success for our students, trainees and faculty
- Develop well-rounded students, strong in critical appraisal, clinical reasoning and patient-centred care
- Co-create and evaluate a patient and public engagement plan for SPT education and research
Partners
Strategies of Excellence
- We cultivate partnerships and collaboration to advance our common goals
Operational Processes
- Enhance communication and collaboration among SPT faculty members
- Strengthen existing and establish new multidisciplinary partnerships across campus and beyond
- Enhance awareness of SPT research themes, the value of our collaboration and the important role we play in success of major university initiatives
- Identify the needs and priorities of our partners to give back and support meaningful engagement
- Increase communication and knowledge mobilization of research expertise to students, partners and clinicians
