Vision and Mission

MISSION: To protect and promote health, nationwide and beyond, by promoting innovation and excellence in education, health care, and research.

VISION: To be the benchmark in standards and performance for the maintenance and development of health.

VALUES and PRINCIPLES
Visionary leadership, investment in people, integrity, teamwork, good governance, strategic management, innovative thinking, problem-solving and commitment to excellence.

Institutional Aims and Objects of the Faculty of Medicine

EDUCATION, SERVICE, AND RESEARCH PURPOSES

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK OF AIMS AND OBJECTIVES*

*To transform the objectives into practices that can be measured, monitored, re-evaluated, and improved through strategic planning, detailed definitions of; sequence number of objectives, category of objectives, objective type, and sub-type, objective name, definition of the objective, objective value, current value, indicator, assessment attendant, decision/implementation officer, action plan/work packages/outputs officer; will be made in a separate study.

AIM

For education, service, and research purposes, by legal regulations and current good governance principles, able to monitor external and internal environmental dynamics in real-time, determine strategic orientation, construct organizational structure effectively and dynamically, evaluate effectiveness and outputs, and accordingly determine internal structure and functioning. It is a structure and operation that can be developed.

OBJECTIVES

1. Framework Organizational Structure and Functioning for Education, Service, and Research Purposes:

1.1. By following current legal regulations and good governance practices, appropriate organizational structure (upper management, middle management, technical support staff, managerial support staff, technical core staff) and functioning (aim and objectives, strategy, environment, extend, culture, technology, managerial) for education, service and research purposes.

1.2. It is the real-time monitoring of external and internal environment dynamics related to education, service, and research purposes, and reporting them to the relevant management positions.

1.3. For strategic management; In communication/interaction/reconciliation with internal and external partners, the mission, vision, corporate goals and objectives, operational objectives and targets related to education, service and research functions, and competitive strategies are determined.

1.4. It is the preparation and enforcement of regulations related to education, service, and research functions in consensus with internal and external partners.

1.5. It is the determination of the management and executive organizational structure related to education, service, and research functions.

1.6. It is the determination of directives and working principles related to education, service, and research functions in consensus with internal and external partners.

1.7. It is the execution of administrative processes related to education, service, and research functions following the determined organizational structure and functioning.

1.8. It is the renewal and development of aims and objectives related to education, service, and research functions, regularly or when necessary, to realize the corporate vision and mission per values and principles.

2. Communication and Interaction:

2.1. It is the description, announcement, and operation of a versatile communication and interaction structure (for the internal and external environment and internal and external partners; feedback, announcements, promotions, briefings, assignments, and regulations) for all objectives.

3. Internal and External Partners:

3.1. It is the determination of internal and external, national and international partners, with which the medical faculty will cooperate to achieve its educational, service, and research aims and objectives, and to review them regularly and renew them when necessary.

3.2. It is the regular review and update of the education, service, and research aims and objectives of the medical faculty together with internal and external partners.

4. Determination of Necessities:

4.1. Continuously detecting and updating needs of education, service, and research with feedback or suggestions received from students, healthcare professionals, patients, patient companions, healthy individuals and society, service and product providers, professional organizations and regulatory bodies, and/or from these and other internal and external partners.

4.1.1. It is the regular and necessary evaluation of the internal and external environment concerning education, service, and research functions. (SWOT, feedback, benchmarks, etc.)

4.1.1.1. It is to receive feedback from internal and external partners regularly and when necessary, about the needs in the context of the training, service, and research functions and outputs being carried out, or about their new functional needs.

4.1.1.2. Benchmarking is made at regular intervals and when necessary, with other institutional structures, internal and external, national and international, in terms of education, service, and research purposes.

4.1.1.3. Continually keeping up with the current developments in the national and international medical literature regarding education, service, and research purposes.

4.1.2. Based on the data obtained, it is the updating of existing education, service, and research needs or the determination of new functional needs.

EDUCATIONAL AIMS AND OBJECTIVES*,**

* To transform the targets into practices that can be measured, monitored, re-evaluated, and improved through strategic planning, and detailed definitions of “objective sequential number, objective category, objective type and sub-type, objective name, objective definition, target value, current value, indicator, assessment attendant, decision/implementation officer, action plan/work package/outputs officer, will be made in a separate study.

**Detailed “Strategic Plan Objectives Document” is attached for the trainer component and the training environment/training materials component (for Phase 4/5/6).

AIM

To develop and constantly renew the medical education programs at lifelong learning levels, for the undergraduate and postgraduates, as well as graduate physicians, healthy individuals, patients, patient companions, and society, to contribute to the provision of healthy life in harmony with nature (“ars vivere in concordia cum natura”; “the art of living in harmony with nature”), by and beyond the principles of contemporary adult education and current medical education paradigm.

OBJECTIVES

1. Expected Outputs:

1.1. It is to increase the health awareness of society and individuals through education and thus contribute to the protection of the health of the individual, the society, and the living and non-living environment.

1.2. To provide medical education to students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

1.3. To support lifelong learning for graduate physicians, healthy individuals, patients, patient relatives, and society.

2. Design, Implementation, Continuous Renewal and Upgrade of the Education Programs:

2.1. Identifying, communicating, and using needs:

2.1.1. It is the evaluation of the internal and external environment at regular intervals and when necessary. (SWOT)

2.1.2. Benchmarking is made at regular intervals and when necessary, in terms of educational functions, with internal and external, national and international institutional structures.

2.1.3. Receiving feedback or suggestions on training needs at regular intervals and as needed, from students, healthcare professionals, patients, patient companions, healthy individuals and the community, service and product providers, professional organizations, regulatory agencies, or other internal and external partners.

2.1.4. Continuing to monitor the current developments in the national and international medical literature about its educational functions.

2.2. Setting, announcing, and enforcing aim, outputs and objectives:

2.2.1. The purpose is to define the outputs and objectives in consensus with internal and external partners, considering their compliance with the National Core Education Program.

2.2.2. The purpose is to announce the outputs and targets to internal and external partners.

2.2.3. The aim is to ensure that the outputs and objectives are used in the training program.

2.3. Paradigm and model identification, announcement, and implementation:

2.3.1. Depending on the current medical education paradigm, appropriate models are selected, the trainers are trained, they are structured together with the corresponding teaching/learning methods and educational resources and opportunities, and they are used in the medical education program.

2.4. Identifying, announcing, and implementing teaching and learning methods:

2.4.1. It is to determine the teaching and learning methods compatible with the adopted medical education paradigm and model(s), to provide training for trainers, to schedule and plan, to prepare and announce the necessary teaching/learning methods and educational resources and opportunities, and to ensure that they are used in the medical education program.

2.5. Identification, announcement, and implementation of educational resources and opportunities (educational environment, training materials, support systems):

2.5.1. Required for the application of the adopted medical education paradigm, model(s), teaching/learning methods, and measurement-evaluation methods;

2.5.1.1. trainer,

2.5.1.2. administrative support and other support human resources,

2.5.1.3. time,

2.5.1.4. infrastructure,

2.5.1.5. educational resources and opportunities (educational environment, educational materials/tools, and other support systems),

2.5.1.6. planning, preparing, announcing, and ensuring the cost of elements

2.5.2. To provide education with up-to-date scientific and technological educational environments, educational resources, and opportunities.

2.5.3. To support educational processes with administrative support and other support personnel with professional competence and experience.

2.6. Determination, announcement, and application of assessment-evaluation methods:

2.6.1. It is to determine the assessment-evaluation methods suitable for the defined objectives of the medical education program and teaching/learning methods, to provide the training of trainers, to plan by scheduling, to prepare and announce the necessary educational resources and opportunities, and to ensure that they are used in the medical education program.

2.7. Determining, announcing, and enforcing regulations regarding students:

2.7.1. Adopting, announcing, and implementing a policy of recruitment, selection, and number of students in compliance with educational resources and opportunities, in compliance with legal regulations, fair, equitable, and non-discriminatory.

2.7.2. To provide students with representation, continuous communication, consultancy, lifelong learning, independent work, career management, national and international exchange mobility, social, cultural, artistic, and sportive opportunities throughout and through the education program, to announce and make available to them.

2.8. Determining, announcing, and applying regulations regarding trainers:

2.8.1. It is to provide education with a sufficient number of qualified trainers who know and apply the principles of contemporary adult education and current medical education paradigms and constantly improve themselves and their education program, and have a trainer education certificate.

2.8.2. It is the satisfaction of the trainer's needs of the training program. 2.8.3. Announcing and communicating the trainers of the training program to internal and external partners.

2.8.4. To ensure that the training program is implemented by the trainers following its aims and objectives.

2.9. Determination, announcement, and implementation of program evaluation methods:

2.9.1. It is the determination of the necessary methods for the evaluation of all the elements (student, trainer, etc.) that make up the training program, the determination of the practitioners, the necessary preparations for the implementation, the announcement, the collection and analysis of the data by ensuring confidentiality and security, and its use for program evaluation and continuous renewal and development.

2.10. Determining, announcing, and putting into effect the structure of continuous renewal and development:

2.10.1. To continuously renew and develop an ongoing training program obtaining;

2.10.1.1. Collecting and constantly updating the training needs data and/or

2.10.1.2. feedback data received from internal and external partners at regular intervals or when necessary, and/or

2.10.1.3. Benchmarking data made at regular intervals or when necessary with other in-house and external national and international training programs and/or

2.10.1.4. It is to obtain current development data determined by constantly monitoring national and international medical education and research literature in medicine.

2.10.2. Based on the monitoring data, the general strategies, the regulation, the management and executive organizational structure, the operating directive, and the working principles concerning the training function are regularly reviewed and renewed when necessary, in communication/interaction/reconciliation with internal and external partners.

2.10.3. Based on the follow-up data, the current training program in communication/interaction/reconciliation with internal and external partners is reviewed periodically and renewed as necessary;

2.10.3.1. aim, outputs and objectives,

2.10.3.2. paradigm and models,

2.10.3.3. teaching and learning methods,

2.10.3.4. educational resources and opportunities (educational environment, educational materials, support systems),

2.10.3.5. regulations for students

2.10.3.6. regulations on trainers,

2.10.3.7. program evaluation methods,

2.10.3.8. the structure of continuous renewal and development itself

SERVICE AIM AND OBJECTIVES*

*To transform the objectives into practices that can be measured, monitored, re-evaluated, and improved through strategic planning, detailed definitions of; the sequence number of objectives, category of objectives, objective type, and sub-type, objective name, definition of the objective, objective value, current value, indicator, assessment attendant, decision/implementation officer, action plan/work packages/outputs officer; will be made in a separate study.

AIM

It is to carry out scientific research to offer the most advanced health promotion, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment methods that concern public health, and to provide a modern, high-quality health service that is suitable for needs and expectations, and that respects patient rights.

OBJECTIVES

1. To ensure the establishment of health service application units or units to support research, education, and practices in the field of health services.

2. To ensure that the most advanced health promotion, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment methods that concern public health are offered as a modern, high-quality health service that complies with needs and expectations, and that respects patient rights.

3. To ensure that scientific research is carried out for the development of the most advanced health promotion, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment methods that concern public health.

RESEARCH AIM AND OBJECTIVES*

AIMS

1. To conduct basic, translational, and clinical research at world standards, which can be published in journals within the SCI and SCI-Expanded indexes, and whose results can be converted into products and services.

2. In parallel with the dynamics in health determinants, it is to conduct research and raise awareness in society, considering the regional and global health needs and priorities of the society.

3. To have an institutional mechanism to identify and update priority and focused research areas and topics, and to encourage freelance research.

4. Ensuring the qualitative and quantitative adequacy of research resources (human resources, knowledge-skills-education, physical infrastructure, time, technology, funding, communication, interaction, and cooperation).

GOALS FOR OBJECTIVES

OBJECTIVE 1. To conduct basic, translational, and clinical research at world standards, which can be published in journals within the SCI and SCI-Expanded indexes, the results of which can be converted into products and services.

Goal 1. The total annual number of scientific publications, number of citations, and citation impact value compared to national, world, and European "league" performances should be in the top 10%, 25%, and 50%, respectively.

Goal 2. An increase in the total annual number of national and international patent applications and documentation, utility models, or industrial design documents compared to the "benchmark criteria".

OBJECTIVE 2. To carry out research and to raise awareness in society, considering the regional and global health needs and priorities of the society in parallel with the dynamics in health determinants.

Goal 1. To have at least 10% of research in the focused research areas

Goal 2. The use of tools aimed at informing the public about current health problems, needs, and priorities, and research conducted on these issues, by researchers at least once a year, to raise awareness in society.

OBJECTIVE 3. To have an institutional mechanism to identify and update priority and focused research areas and topics and to encourage freelance research.

Goal 1. Establishment of a “Research Strategies Board” to identify and update priority and focused research areas.

Goal 2. Determination of focused research areas by the Research Strategies Board and their announcement by updating them at regular intervals.

Goal 3. Monitoring of research resources (funding, human resources, technological requirements, research collaborations, scientific meeting/training/course organization, scientific meeting/training/course participation, etc.) by the Research Strategies Board, according to the planned categories, and the results of the follow-up annually research once (at the end of the year)

Goal 4. Monitoring by the Research Strategies Board that at least 30% of the funding resources are allocated to freelance research and announcing the follow-up results to researchers and decision-makers once a year (at the end of the year).

Goal 5. Monitoring by the Research Strategies Board that at least 5% of the funding resources are allocated to educational research and announcing the follow-up results to researchers and decision-makers once a year (at the end of the year).

Goal 6. The increase in the research in each category according to the "benchmark criteria" in their categories, the follow-up by the Research Strategies Board, and the announcement of the follow-up results to the researchers and decision-makers once a year (at the end of the year).

OBJECTIVE 4. To ensure the qualitative and quantitative adequacy of research resources (human resources, knowledge-skills-education, physical infrastructure, time, technology, funding, communication, interaction, and cooperation).

Goal 1. Ensuring the quantitative and qualitative adequacy of human resources in the categories of faculty members, specialists, technical personnel, students (undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and specialist students), and support personnel participating and supporting research activities by the senior management, monitoring by the Research Strategies Board and announcement of follow-up results to researchers and decision-makers once a year (at the end of the year)

Goal 2. Ensuring quantitative and qualitative competence in terms of acquiring, maintaining, and developing the knowledge, skills, and training to be used by researchers in research activities by the senior management, monitoring by the Research Strategies Board, and announcing the follow-up results to researchers and decision-makers once a year (at the end of the year).

Goal 3. Ensuring the quantitative and qualitative adequacy of the physical infrastructure to be used by researchers in research activities by the senior management, monitoring by the Research Strategies Board, and announcing the follow-up results to researchers and decision-makers once a year (at the end of the year).

Goal 4. Ensuring the quantitative and qualitative adequacy of the time to be used by researchers in research activities by the senior management, monitoring by the Research Strategies Board, and announcing the follow-up results to researchers and decision-makers once a year (at the end of the year).

Goal 5. Ensuring the adequacy and adequacy of the interpretative developments in the use of the research by the senior management, monitoring by the Research Strategies Board, and announcing the monitoring results to the death and decision makers once a year (at the end of the year).

Goal 6. Ensuring the adequacy of the quantitative and quality of in-house and non-institutional research funds in the research institution, institution, and the degree of obtaining one of them, monitoring by the Research Strategies and the monitoring results are put into service and decision-making once a year (at the end of the year) and notify to the decision makers.

Goal 7. Ensuring quantitative and qualitative competence for communication, interaction and cooperation opportunities between centers and disciplines at internal and external (national and international) scales to be used by researchers in research activities, by senior management, monitoring, and monitoring results by the Research Strategies Board to be announced to researchers and decision-makers once a year (at the end of the year).

RESEARCH STRATEGIES WORKSHOP REPORT