The Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine is the professional home of more than 1,200 faculty (including 617 full-time faculty), 471 trainees, and approximately 430 staff and students distributed across 14 sections.
The breadth and depth of our department is considerable: We have campus sites at Baylor St Luke’s Medical Center (BSLMC), Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Harris Health, Texas Children’s Hospital, and Pavilion for Women, as well as close associations with a number of interdisciplinary centers, programs and organized research units.
We appreciate our achievements in discovery, patient care, and medical education and training. The Department of Medicine has been engaged in a strategic planning process. Our ambitious goal is to make the DOM a recognized leader in the following areas: scientific discovery and research, patient clinical care, and medical education and training.
With this plan, we are challenging ourselves to do more, go farther, and be better. We plan to achieve more scientific breakthroughs and create more knowledge; to provide more excellent clinical services in new and better ways, including patient-centered care, population health and precision medicine; to educate, train and recruit high-quality talent more effectively; and to contribute more to the many communities we serve.
This plan—to grow our scientific discovery and research, clinical care programs, and medical education and training, but also to focus on quality, nurture and develop our people—is going to be the focus for the next five years. We will measure our progress in each of the outlined initiatives as we move toward the achievement of our goals. The plan will form the framework for subsequent section-specific strategic plans.