Mission:
PTRS advocates for and advances societal health by optimizing wellness and human movement or function through excellence in education, research, clinical practice, and service.
Vision:
By integrating education, research, clinical practice, and service PTRS excels in:
- Graduating culturally competent professionals capable of delivering excellent patient centered clinical care through critical thinking, evidence based practice, and lifelong learning.
- Providing new knowledge and evidence that enhances rehabilitation sciences and supports clinical practice through expertise, innovation, and technology.
- Guiding and promoting the physical therapy profession and rehabilitation sciences through engagement with scientific and professional organizations as well as local, national, and international communities.
Values:
These values will serve as the basis for PTRS to fulfill its mission and achieve its vision.
- Excellence
- Leadership
- Diversity, cultural competence, and inclusivity
- Social responsibility
- Collaboration and communication
- Respect, ethical behavior, integrity, and professionalism
- Fiscal responsibility
Goal I: Achieve and be recognized as a leader in education, research, clinical practice and scholarship
Objective I: Enhance integration of foundational and clinical content in the DPT curriculum to improve outcomes and achieve educational and curricular innovation
Strategies:
- Block Leader Meetings
- Faculty Meetings
- CCC Meetings
- Curriculum Day
Objective II: Recognized excellence for Leadership in IPE
Strategies:
- Increase funded faculty for research in IPE
- Increase teaching faculty trained for IPE
- Branding/symposiums/award recognition for IPE
- Student involvement in IPE
Objective III: Develop innovative curricular offerings
Strategies:
- Dual degree programs
- Residency Programs
- Mechanisms to promote curricular flexibility (MSc, research electives, community engagement etc.)
- Continuing Education with clinical partners and alumni
- Use of technology to enhance curricular offerings such as CE
- PTRS leads new biomedical/rehabilitation engineering training program
Objective IV: Increase funding to support educational mission
Strategies:
- Increase philanthropy directed toward education (community programs, conferences, special programming, endowments, professorships, equipment, renovations)
- Seek and secure grants for innovative educational programs
Objective V: Ensure an infrastructure of human and physical resources
Strategies:
- Maximize and prioritize resources by establishing a financial sustainability plan
- Recruit and retain highly-qualified and diverse faculty, staff, and students (scholarships, merit, professorships)
- Optimize the learning, research, and clinical practice environments (space, equipment, technology, etc.)
Objective VI: Increase faculty research productivity and scholarly products
Strategies:
- Enhance development of all investigators
- Increase the number and percent of total faculty engaged in federally funded research through collaborative engagement
- Facilitate all teaching faculty involvement with funded research
- Increase federal and overall grant funding
Objective VII: Establish a national center of balance and mobility rehabilitation research
Strategies:
- Attain 3 federally funded researchers focused on balance and mobility Rehabilitation
- Develop infrastructure and resources to support center (research Engineer
- Dean’s support for pilot projects, centralized support personnel
- Engage interdisciplinary researchers to support center
- Establish rehabilitation engineering as a core component of the center
Objective VIII: Enhance service and clinical practice activities
Strategies:
- Evaluate the viability of sustaining the Service Learning Center (SLC) and/or development of a broader Service Center
- Investigate opportunities with SOM clinical services
- Optimize position for inclusion in UMCP Performance Center
Objective IX: Strengthen stakeholder relationships
Strategies:
- Increase engagement with student body, alumni, professional community, clinical partners, faculty, staff, and citizens
- Add UMRN partnerships
Goal II: Establish and implement a plan for financial growth
Objective I: Increase enrollment in the DPT program
Strategies:
- Determine % of growth and resource capacity
Objective II: Increase philanthropic support
Strategies:
- Annual giving
- Major gifts
- Partner with internal stakeholders (faculty referrals)
- Stewardship
- Engage alumni (build sense of community)
Objective III: Establish a plan (if feasible) of clinical models for generating revenue
Strategies:
- Discuss/analyze with SOM administration (system-wide relationships)
Goal III: Increase internal and external visibility of PTRS
Objective I: Establish the PTRS Brand
Strategies:
- Develop policies and procedures for branding
- Determine points of pride in research (clinical conditions of aging, stroke, falls), DPT education (IPE and block curriculum), community service, PhD program, leadership and involvement in professional service, alumni
- Brand PTRS website and establish social media presence
