- Action item
- A measurable step to achieve a goal
- Environmental scan
- Current state of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
- Goal
- Broad primary outcome
- Metrics
- How you determine progress toward meeting a goal
- Mission
- A foundational statement that describes the purpose of the School of Medicine’s existence. It answers the questions: Why do we do what we do, and how do we distinguish ourselves from other medical schools?
- Strategic aims
- A picture of where we are headed in the next five years
- Strategic plan
- A guide that defines and delineates our priorities and how we intend to meet them
- Values
- What is important to us
- Vision
- An image or description of the medical school community we aspire to become in the next five years