Pharmacy Practice

Performance Goals 2007-2010

Hire 75% of the approved vacant and new faculty positions.
Fill 100% of the approved assistant instructor positions.
Implement a Continuing Development Plan (CPD) on line submission process for faculty by integrating CPD submission with the Annual Faculty Report thus creating one document submitted annually and reviewed and endorsed by the respective division head.
Revise Department promotion and tenure guidelines in concert with revised Regents' Rules and School of Pharmacy Bylaws.

Maintain all PIP contracts in effect as of Sept. 01, 2007 thus generating approximately $3.1M net in patient care revenue.
Achieve a top three ranking of "clinical" departments in TTUHSC for research expenditures.

Create a Department manpower/staffing analysis for the P1 and P2 Introductory to Pharmacy Practice Courses, Pharmacy Practice laboratory courses, and integrate with other departmental academic course teaching responsibilities.
Analyze the incorporation of active learning sessions in courses primarily using the "lecture" format and quantify the additional Department staffing requirements created by implementing the active learning activities on each of the four campuses.
Quantify the impact of curriculum delivery methodology on Department faculty manpower demands created by the VCS system including the mandate that all classrooms have a faculty member present for each class system regardless of origin of the class as applied to all P1 and P2 courses.
Create an interdepartmental pharmaceutical sciences/pharmacy practice task force to create a guideline statement for the interaction of interdepartmental faculty when delivering the team taught pharmacotherapy courses. Apply this jointly endorsed guideline to each P2 and P3 pharmacotherapy course beginning in fall 2008.
Implement a student portfolio system concentrating on application to the experiential courses.

Prospectively create and implement a faculty coverage plan for faculty engaged in practice contracts when such plans are deemed necessary by department leadership and faculty.
Design and structure each faculty member's practice so that a functional statement of responsibilities guides the faculty member's practice activities and addresses the needs of team practice including engagement of other faculty and staff at the contractual practice site.
Reevaluate and define the role of assistant instructors (residents) and clinicians employed by the partner practice sites and integrate with faculty member's functional responsibilities so as to promote team based care.

Non-tenure track faculty will author or co-author at least one peer reviewed publication annually.
Tenure track faculty will author or co-author at least two peer reviewed publications annually.
Each published paper should be categorized as to high, medium, or low impact using the ISI rating as a guideline.
Establish The Texas Tech UHSC SOP Center for Experimental Therapeutics, as a cornerstone of the CTSA grant, in concert with a strategic plan endorsed by both TTUHSC and UT Southwestern leadership.
Initiate development activities leading to establishment of the Texas Institute for Drug Safety by targeting national and state funding sources and private donors in concert with a strategic plan endorsed by TTUHSC and UT Southwestern leadership.

Fully integrate and engage the Division Heads into the school-wide ongoing continuing improvement initiative related to organizational structure seeking their input, suggestions and guidance.
Each division will establish goals in concert with the Department goals and monitor at least one metric for each divisional goal.
Department faculty and leadership will initiate processes so that department specific information required by the ACPE rubric will be collected and analyzed on an annual basis when needed or in concert the with accreditation cycle of the School.