Strategic Plan 2012-2017: Beyond the Cutting Edge
The Department is recognized as the top Department of Surgery in Canada and the top 10% in the world. It has an accomplished faculty and an enviable track record but faces a number of significant challenges. Nevertheless, there are major opportunities with ever changing technology, real interest in government to strengthen academic medicine, increased government commitment to research funding, and a huge clinical practice base with significant opportunities for translational research to name but a few.
The Department's five-year strategic plan Transforming Surgery: Beyond the Cutting Edge was initiated in order to address the rapidly changing environment in which our Department has to function. Technological developments, the integration between surgery and other disciplines especially imaging, enhanced accountability for quality and patient safety, reduced financial support for individuals as well as the Department, and the increasing influence of the teaching hospitals with their superb research institutes are all drivers of this changing culture of academia and clinical practice.
For questions regarding the Strategic Plan, contact Joanna Giddens: joanna.giddens@utoronto.ca
StratPlan2012.pdf
Supplementary Appendices
IV. Strategic Directions, Goals, Actions, and Measures
V. White paper proposing creation of Surgeon Scientist Program (2011)