STFM spent much of 2019 working on the 2020-2025 update to its strategic plan. As part of the strategic plan update process, the Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) assessed the previous goals and strategies and the achievements of the organization in relation to the current plan, and reviewed results of extensive data collected from the STFM member needs survey, interviews with current and past members, a staff survey, and SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analyses performed by each STFM standing committee.
The mission of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine is to advance family medicine to improve health through a community of teachers and scholars. STFM relies on its core values of diversity, integrity, relationships, openness, nurturing, and excellence to achieve this mission.
“I’m really pleased with the work of the Strategic Planning Committee and the STFM Board in laying out the plan for STFM for the next few years. There are some exciting new directions and important challenges for us to tackle.”
— STFM President Frederick Chen, MD, MPH, University of Washington
The Strategic Plan is divided into 5 key areas: professional and leadership development, workforce recruitment and retention, scholarship, health equity, and advocacy.
Professional and Leadership Development
GOAL: STFM will be the leader in training, leadership development, and creation of knowledge that improves family medicine education and teaching.
OBJECTIVES
Provide family medicine faculty with the skills needed to train students, residents, and health care teams to achieve better health, quality care, value, and improved work life of clinicians and staff
Develop STFM members and their learners into solutions-focused, adaptable leaders within and across our health care systems
Develop the family medicine education workforce to meet the unique needs of communities, especially in rural settings and in community health centers
Workforce Recruitment and Retention
GOAL: STFM will inspire individuals to become exemplary, fulfilled, and compassionate family medicine teachers.
OBJECTIVES
Transform family medicine training sites for students and residents into clinical and teaching models of excellence
Increase the number of family medicine faculty to address the broader goals of the 25x2030 collaborative
Promote well-being and resilience at the personal and system level
Scholarship
GOAL: STFM will raise the bar on family medicine educational scholarship.
OBJECTIVES
Promote adoption of best practices of educational scholarship
Build the educational scholarship capacity within the discipline
Build the quality improvement capacity within the discipline
Partner with health care systems to better support medical education scholarship in training program
Health Equity
GOAL: STFM will drive the health equity of communities through medical education.
OBJECTIVES
Engage in partnerships to contribute to the health equity of communities through medical education
Increase the skill set of family medicine faculty related to health equity
Increase the diversity of family medicine faculty and the diversity of learners with an interest in teaching
Advocacy
GOAL: STFM will champion family medicine education, research, and workforce recruitment and retention.
OBJECTIVES
Develop and communicate the business case for family medicine education, including the financial and patient impact
Advocate for the teaching and practice of comprehensive family medicine
Teach advocacy skills to family medicine educators and learners
Lead and support the Academic Family Medicine Advocacy Committee and its legislative priorities, including identifying new strategies to mobilize STFM members to be advocates for our academic issues
A number of assumptions about key areas of importance to STFM are woven into the plan. As a result, there is not a separate goal or objective for these areas, but they will be incorporated as part of every applicable activity. These assumptions include: diversity, URM definition, strong infrastructure, innovation, collaborations, communications, technology, support for the STFM Foundation, and regular examination of member benefits.
STFM thanks facilitator Stan Kozakowski, MD, and the SPC for its excellent work in drafting the 2020-2025 STFM Strategic Plan. A tremendous amount of research and discussion has gone into this effort, and we appreciate their commitment to this important task. Members of the SPC included Freddy Chen, MD, MSPH; Renee Crichlow, MD; Joe Gravel, MD; Cristy Page, MD; Heather Paladine, MD; Andrea Pfeifle, EdD; Randall Reitz, PhD; Beat Steiner, MD, MPH (SPC Chair); Stephen Wilson, MD, MPH; Stacy Brungardt, CAE; and Mary Theobald, MBA
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