Strategy 7

Enhance partnerships that strengthen UI COM

Enhance existing, and pursue new, partnerships that advance UI COM strategies across all mission areas and are beneficial to the college and its partners.

Target Completion Date: Q4 2024; Progress: 20%

Work with hospital and community affiliates and other UI colleges to lead interprofessional collaborative practice, learning, working, and scholarship.

Key Activities

  • a) Critically review and adopt definition(s) of interprofessional practice as standard for UI COM (Recommend Definitions as per CAIPPER) https://vcha.uic.edu/units/interprofessional-education-ipe   b) Develop strategy to disseminate Tactic 7a information to internal & external partners
  • a) Define competency-based outcomes for prequalification trainees, residents, fellows, faculty, and staff. b) Inventory the interprofessional collaborative practice at UIH and create a structure (in partnership with CAIPPER) in which teams can optimize processes and outcomes to achieve the triple aim. c). In partnership with CAIPPER establish and implement team training programs that account for each learner/team member’s education and skill level
  • Align strategy for IPE with existing healthcare delivery partners. Seek additional partners for IPE, including other Health Colleges and/or Centers at UIC

Subcommittee Membership

Michele Mariscalco, Paul Gorski, Subcommittee Additions: Linda Feng Chang, Nicole Gastala, Bhrandon Harris, Christiana Hentea, Mary Keehn, Angela O’Bryant, Christine Park, Kevin Rynn, Lauren Smith

Target Completion Date: Q2 2024; Progress: 100%

Develop and/or optimize all clinical affiliations to ensure long-term sustainability and a high-quality educational, clinical, and research experience for students and trainees.

Key Activities

  • Define “Major Educational Affiliate”
  • Develop gap analysis and action plan for 1-3 Affiliates

Subcommittee Membership

Michele Mariscalco, Ray Curry

Target Completion Date: Q1 2024; Progress: 40%

Share UI COM’s strengths (expertise, competencies, and resources) with our clinical and community partners to improve care and advance their strategic objectives.

Key Activities

  • Develop framework to guide assessment of partners needs and goals
  • Develop systematic approach to assess business potential of the partnership
  • Define roles necessary to manage complex partnership and establish team
  • Develop protocols to ensure transparency of data & outcomes to core constituents
  • Define an UICOM oversight team to assess the partnership
  • Establish a mechanism for UICOM faculty to input/list their strengths, i.e. “Centers” or ‘areas of excellence’

Subcommittee Membership

Andrew Kreppel, Sean Koppe, Steve Brown, Terry Lynch, Nancy Tartt, Subcommittee Additions: Joe Garry, Ian Jasenof, Adhir Schroff

Target Completion Date: Q2 2023; Progress: 90%

Drive research & innovation through partnerships: Identify opportunities where collaboration with the Discovery Partners Institute, CBC and other organizations can accelerate UI COM’s research and innovation efforts.

Key Activities

  • Maximize opportunities for UICOM faculty to engage with DPI in new science teams and new start-ups, new opportunities for Artificial awareness/Machine Learning
  • Creative Space for UICOM faculty at DPI facilities
  • Align CBC opportunities for UICOM faculty individually and collectively, with focus on Entrepreneurship for PhD trainees/post docs.

Subcommittee Membership

Michael Flavin, Peter Pfanner, Sandeep Jain, Jerry Krishnan, Luisa di Pietro, Bellur Prabhakar

Target Completion Date: Q4 2024; Progress: 80%

Optimize VA relationship: Nurture the COM’s long-standing relationship with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to advance health for our communities as well as unique education and research opportunities.

Key Activities

  • Organize UICOM infrastructure to increase awareness and ease of access UIC faculty to VA research opportunities
  • Facilitate clinical and basic science research for UIC/VA faculty and/or recruit VA patients to non-VA Clinical Trials
  • Increase UIC physician engagement in VA Service Lines
  • Optimize UIC physician trainees at the VA

Subcommittee Membership

Karen Lenehan, Patrick Godwin, Peter Burkiewicz, Abby Litwiller, Gia Mac, Michele Mariscalco, Bellur Prabhakar

Target Completion Date: Q4 2024; Progress 50%

Advance global partnerships: Advance global partnerships through ongoing and long-term engagement with select partner institutions that align with the defined COM Partnership Ideals.

Key Activities

  • Organize a UICOM infrastructure to leverage global partnerships for health
  • Define what constitutes an institutional global partnership at various levels
  • Conduct an annual mapping exercise to inventory and categorize existing and new global partnerships
  • Define the milestones that grow global partnerships for health

Subcommittee Membership

Janet Lin, Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Gia Mac, Subcommittee Additions: Marcia Edison, Joe Garry, Gelila Goba, Manu Khare, Nicole Robertson, Mary Stapel, Steve Weine

Target Completion Date: Q1 2025; Progress: 50%

Define COM Partnership Ideals: Establish partnership approaches, philosophy, and practices that are mutually agreed upon between identified community partners and the college of medicine.

Key Activities

  • Conduct scan of national best practices from other AMCs around partnership ideals and synthesize best practices for discussion and reference
  • Take inventory of internal (UI COM and UIC) programs that work directly on partnering and/or community needs and determine how we can most effectively collaborate with each: 1) build a resource list of all internal programs along with a short description of their focus areas and key contacts 2) Invite groups to presents a brief overview of their mission, services, principles, and intended outcomes 3) establish a summary of key themes, principles, and best practices emanating from these programs around partnership and community needs 4) determine what we feel comfortable endorsing on behalf of COM 5) establish areas of alignment and path for ongoing collaborations with programs.
  • Establish a focus group of current (key) partners to work with COM to further brainstorm ideals on partnering
  • Leveraging internal and external best practice along with community partner input, develop a written proposal for a more comprehensive and inclusive definition of partnership for COM along with proposed partnership ideals
  • Collaborate with our other strategic planning committees to consider/adapt expectations for partner commitments based on type of partner relationship, e.g. medical affiliates versus community-based (as partnerships, we may insist on certain norms, but it won’t be a one-size fits all partnership relationship framework)
  • Define milestones and metrics around community engagement principles and design a process to assess UICOM’s on-going progress

Subcommittee Membership

Steve Brown, Joanna Michel, Morgan Benson, Michele Mariscalco, Nancy Tartt, Beth Wrona Murphy

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Number and diversity of collaborative partnerships that meet the mission of the COM (i.e., research, clinical, social outreach, engagement)

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Partner(s) investment ($) in the COM

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Current Value: 0 Target Value: 0