Since our last updates, RBI’s Guiding Coalition of Change Leaders focused their energy on five key actions to get us closer to the vision of becoming a health professions school providing healthcare and education that is free of racism and bias.
Action #1: Conducted a Deeper Dive
Each sphere hosted two interactive sessions with stakeholders across the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) to:
- Look at their sphere through different lenses and provide a way to talk about the experiences we each have of what is happening in the sphere and
- Conduct a power analysis to further understand how power works in our institution and in our social relationships.
Action #2: Developed Change Targets
Each sphere developed a change target or broad statement (goal) about the long-term expectation of what should change OVER THE NEXT YEAR as a result of the change effort. This target serves as a foundation for developing objectives and guides the plan for implementation. Check out RBI’s six change targets.
Action #3: Identified Objectives
For each change target, we identified multiple objectives or brief statements describing the short-term result to be achieved and the manner in which they will be achieved.
Each objective is SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound.
Action #4: Planned for Implementation
In order to achieve our objectives and change targets for this year, each sphere developed a detailed plan. The plan includes a stakeholder analysis, tactical step-by-step timeline, success factors that will be important to the change target’s success, communications, student feedback loop plan, and more.
Action #5: Launched Change Target & Started Implementing Change
Starting in December, RBI launched the Change Targets and started to implement the plans. Each month we will provide updates and highlight important wins.
If you want to get more involved, email changenow@mssm.edu.