Principles to Guide SEAMO

Number 5-07
Original Issue: 2008 Mar. 04
Effective Date: 2008 Mar. 04
Revised: New

The following Principles to Guide SEAMO will be subject to periodic review and amendment by the SEAMO Governing Committee.

All policies and procedures flowing from these principles will be subject to review and approval by the Governing Committee.

POLICY:

1. All principles should protect and enhance the Academic Health Sciences Centre.

2. SEAMO shall be driven by the following values, which are the foundation for principles that guide the organization:


Deliverables

3. The Academic Health Sciences Centre (Hospitals, University and Clinical Teachers) must establish a clear understanding of its needs in all four domains (patient care, education, research, administration & leadership).

4. SEAMO must act as an integrated enterprise. Necessary support for central functions is required.

5. Based on the understanding of needs, the AHSC, in conjunction with the clinical departments, must establish goals for all departments. These goals must take into account the resources available to SEAMO, the Medical School and the Hospitals.

6. In establishing goals for departments, it is understood that the distribution of effort among domains need not be identical for all departments.

Funding

7. Funding of departments must be tied to the achievement of departmental goals. This recognizes that all funding, including base funding, is at risk. The corresponding funding to departments must be equitable and transparent, and department practice plan allocation to individuals must be equitable and transparent.

8. SEAMO recognizes the importance of patient care, education, research, and leadership. Departments and individuals will be neither advantaged nor disadvantaged by virtue of their differential roles.

9. Income targets should be set for each specialty, based on market place compensation and productivity of full time physicians in that specialty.

10. Money may flow across departmental boundaries in order to ensure that principles numbers 6 and 7 are upheld.

Accountability

11. Measures of achievement of departmental goals should be standardized, robust, and based on productivity/outputs in order to ensure that standards of performance are met and are seen to be met.

12. It is the responsibility of departments to distribute roles, workloads and funds to meet the targets for departmental productivity. Targets are to be approved centrally.

13. There must be complete transparency, e.g., transparency in distribution of SEAMO and University funding, performance, goal setting, compensation within departments.

14. There must be fair and equitable dispute resolution mechanisms at the departmental and SEAMO levels.