MLA Planning Grid

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 2007-2008
Section: Medical Informatics Section

Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership and Leadership in the Profession

Objective 1: Increase section membership and involvement of members in the section

a. Locate and encourage previous MIS members to return to the section
b. Send letters to new members and encourage active participation in their section
c. Invite members to participate in section committees

Objective 2: Provide a slate of qualified candidates to elect a Chair-Elect and submit a candidate from MIS for the Nominating Committee nominee

Who, Expertise Needed:
Membership Committee
Sadie Honey, Chair
Nominating Committee
Kathy Kerdolff, Immediate-Past-Chair/Nominating Committee Chair

Time Needed:
Throughout the year
Completion before February 15 deadline to announce election results

Resources Required:
Quarterly MIS membership lists from MLA
Listserv to solicit volunteers for committees and to announce election and election results
Surveymonkey (or other online survey tool) to conduct election

Product Outcome:
Listserv with up-to-date members
Increased membership
Increased number of members involved in committees
Effective new leaders

Evaluation:
Track number of total members and new members for reporting in Mid-Year and Annual Reports
Track number of members participating on committees
Well-qualified candidates running for office.

Goal 2: Life Long Learning

Objective 1: Provide relevant and interesting programs at the annual conference in Chicago, 2008

a. Sponsor a second round of the invited speaker panel on Top Technology Trends expanding on the range of topics covered, adding more experts, and continuing the use of a Google jockey and the audience response system
b. Sponsor a contributed paper session on Technologies in Education

Objective 2: Promote continuing education relevant to medical informatics

a. Identify existing MLA CE courses relevant to medical informatics and post to the MIS web site to encourage members to attend
b. Identify medical informatics areas not already covered by MLA CE courses and encourage members to submit course proposals
c. Solicit other ideas for courses of interest to members

Objective 3: Encourage use of social networking tools so members can gain familiarity with these tools and understand their value

a. Invite members to join the Technology Trends Facebook group established by Technology Trends invited speaker Eric Schnell

Who, Expertise Needed:
Program Committee
Laura Barrett, Chair-elect/Program Chair
Continuing Education Committee
Lisa Traditi, Chair
Eric Schnell, Facebook group creator

Time Needed:
Throughout the year responding to MLA Program deadlines
Complete CE course inventory by October to identify potential topics for new CE courses
Invite members to submit CE proposals on informatics topics before December 14, 2007 deadline
Throughout the year

Resources Required:
MLA Program Planning resources
MLANET CE information
Facebook site

Product Outcome:
High quality programming at the annual meeting
List of MLA CE courses of potential interest to section members
Facebook group

Evaluation:
Number of members in the Technology Trends Facebook Group
Development of new CE courses related to medical informatics
Number of attendees at section-sponsored programming

Goal 3: Advocacy

Objective 1: Work with MLA to award the Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Grant to up to two individual

Objective 2: Donate to the Donald A.B. Lindberg Research Fellowship Fund and to other worthy conferences, grants, etc.

Objective 3: Determine appropriateness of providing some funding for some officers to attend MLA '09 in Hawai

Objective 4: Promote members by publicizing their activities at the annual conference and other national level activities on the section web site

Who, Expertise Needed:
Janis Brown, section chair
Bette Sydelko, section treasurer
Other section officers and members

Time Needed:
Time dependent upon MLA awards timeline
Throughout the year

Resources Required:
MIS listserv for publicizing information about the grant (at the jury's discretion)
MIS web site for posting grant recipient names and projects funded and member activities
MIS funds
MIS membership list

Product Outcome:
Funded projects that are relevant to medical informatics
Updated section web site
Transfer of funds to appropriate account
Plan for providing funding for MLA '09
Announcement of members' national activities

Evaluation:
Ask award recipients to summarize their projects
Posting of award recipients on section web site within one month of announcement

Goal 4: Creating and Communicating our Knowledge

Objective 1: Make revisions to the MIS web site, specifically incorporating a section on technology trends and other changes to improve navigation, and keep the site updated

Objective 2: Investigate use of Del.icio.us, Librarything, or other Web 2.0 tools as methods for members to share recommendations about web sites, books, or ideas

Objective 3: Update history of the section from 1998 to the present

Who, Expertise Needed:
Web committee
Nic Cecchino, chair/web master
New task force on Web 2.0
Janis Brown, Chair
History of the Section Task Force
Marcia Henry

Time Needed:
Throughout the year
Complete history update by October 2007

Resources Required:
Section web site
Social networking sites

Product Outcome:
Updated web site
Revised history posted on section web site
Plan for using social networking tools

Evaluation:
Ease of use of web site
Implementation of Web 2.0 recommendations

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