Strategic Plan (2021-2025)

Focused 2024-2025 Strategic Plan Update

• PILLAR I - Amplify Learner Success & Enhance Institutional Affinity

  GOAL I-1

  HWCOM is committed to fostering student success and maintaining a graduation rate equivalent to or better than the national average for comparable programs. To achieve this, HWCOM will continuously monitor the effectiveness of curricula, promptly intervene when students face academic obstacles, and adhere to tracking and reporting protocols to ensure timely support and resource allocation.

  GOAL I-2

  Increase overall philanthropic annual engagement to 2.5 million dollars through 2026. Develop new and existing philanthropic partnerships, donors, and resources to support the growing needs of HWCOM’s students, faculty, staff, and community. Establish a brand identity that clearly articulates HWCOM’s mission, scope, and commitment to the community.

• PILLAR II - Accelerate Preeminence & Research and Innovation Impact

  GOAL II-1

  Enhance HWCOM's reputation and reach by refining programmatic footprint, supporting faculty development, maintaining FIU Discover profile participation at 100%, strengthening HWCOM’s social media presence, and improving current rankings.

  GOAL II-2

  Continue to expand HWCOM research capacity and impact. Maximize research potential leading to critical advances in knowledge that will be applied to medical education and clinical care by doubling the current number of postdocs to twelve, increasing the number of research proposals submitted annually to 120, and increasing total research expenditures to ten million dollars.

• PILLAR III - Assure Responsible Stewardship & Operational Sustainability

  GOAL III-1

  Support the success and expansion of College of Medicine programs by continuing to develop a clinical revenue model that leads to operational self-sufficiency that can grow to subsidize all missions of HWCOM.

  GOAL III-2

  Enhance operational infrastructure and retain high-performing faculty while reducing the reliance of extramurally funded laboratories on Educational and General (E&G) funding. Research teams will strive to achieve the goal of utilizing only 53 cents of E&G support for every dollar of extramural funding received, in line with the national benchmark.