AAMC: Organizational Performance Improvement OPI

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Organizational Performance Improvement
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Learn, Serve, Lead
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What Is OPI?

• A series of purposeful activities and initiatives
  that extend traditional AAMC products and
  services to institution-level action. OPI is a
  comprehensive campaign of programs, initiatives,
  and services that
• Help medical schools and teaching hospitals
  improve their organizations and align their
  mission activities
• Translate policies and principles into action and
  implementation at institutions
• Bridge multiple missions and organizational units
  within our members complex settings.

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The Process for the AAMCs Initiatives on
Organizational Performance Improvement
Partnering actively for Impact
Assessing what our members see as their problems
Discovering innovative Solutions
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What Are Your Pressing Needs?

• The AAMC strives to be a leader in best-practices
  research and solutions for medial schools and
  teaching hospitals to improve management and
  organizational effectiveness. What are the key
  organizational challenges that medical schools
  and teaching hospitals face for which the AAMC
  should identify innovations and promising
  practices? ?

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Innovative Solutions
Interaction for Impact

• Pilot Projects
• Holistic Review
• Quality
• Leadership Search and Selection
• Faculty Forward The Alliance for Advancing the
  Academic Medicine Workplace

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Enhancing the Culture of Quality in AAMC Member
Organizations

• Objective Identify and develop resources, tools
  and approaches for fostering a broad
  institutional commitment to outstanding patient
  safety, clinical care and clinical service
• Resources Selected literature, websites,
  presentations, member strategies meeting, etc.
• Tools Project website, examples of best
  practices, curriculum guides for undergraduate,
  graduate and continuing medical education, etc.

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Holistic Review Project

• Objective
• Develop and distribute tools and information that
  medical schools can adopt or adapt to create and
  sustain medical student diversity
• Focus
• On the application/admissions process, and
• How it links to medical school mission/goals and
  related functions (e.g., outreach, recruitment,
  financial aid, retention)

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Holistic Review Project

• The purpose of the OPI pilot is to help medicals
  schools use the principles and tools in the
  Roadmap to
• Assess their student diversity policies
• Identify
• policies that are dont need to be changed
• policies that need revision
• Areas where policies need to be developed
• Revise policies and write new ones, based on the
  schools assessment
• The intended outcome is that the process will
  result in student diversity policies at the
  school that are
• mission-driven
• educationally sound
• legally viable

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Leadership Search and Selection

• Project Goals
• Identify innovative search practices both inside
  and outside academic medicine
• Develop resources and tools for AAMC members
• Explore networking opportunities for school and
  hospital officials who are involved in the
  coordination and management of the executive
  search process

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Faculty Forward The Alliance for Advancing the
Academic Workplace
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Goals

• To develop a partnership among medical schools
  and the AAMC on tools and resources to improve
  faculty satisfaction and workplace environments
• To create tools and resources for participating
  medical schools to improve the work environments
  for their medical school faculty
• By using Faculty Forward data, resources, and
  tools, for schools to improve institutional work
  environments and culture and thus increase
  faculty retention, satisfaction, and morale

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Structure

• Three-year cycle up to 30 schools would become
  founding partners for the 2009-2011 cohort.
  Other schools could participate in subsequent
  years.
• Numerous benefits in each of the 3 years, for
  example
• Year 1 (2009) AAMC-COACHE survey and
  benchmarking results custom questions 3
  registrations to GFA meeting Faculty Forward
  brand for institutional use
• Year 2 (2010) User workshop user resources
  webinars department chair workshop 3 GFA
  registrations branding
• Year 3 (2011) Customized on-site visit
  customized faculty retention benchmarking
  reports co-branded web content 3
  GFA registrations branding
• Cost for first cohort of founding
  partners25,000 per year