Aims, Goals, and Objectives

RIF: Aims and Objectives

Competency Based Goals and Objectives

Objectives  Demonstrate basic knowledge in the anatomy, physiology, and embryology of organ system as it pertains to surgical diseases.  Demonstrate basic knowledge in the pathology and diagnosis of surgical diseases and understand the fundamentals of evaluating surgical risks in both elective and emergency settings.  Discuss the basic principles of preoperative and postoperative management,...

The Goals Grid: A Tool for Clarifying Goals and Objectives

Several years back, a meeting of the Operations Executive Council in my company was focused on the five-year corporate planning effort then getting underway. At this meeting I distributed a simple framework for classifying, organizing, and analyzing goals and objectives (see the Goals Grid in Figure 1 below). My colleagues saw this framework as very useful and so I was led to present it to a wi...

Continuing medical education (CME): goals and objectives.

Statement of Professional Goals and Objectives

The past two decades have seen the growing importance of statistical thought in providing practical solutions to real-world problems. The engineer, the scientist, the medical researcher, the business and public policy-maker all want the statistician as a partner in the effort to address vexing issues of practical significance. At play are multiple levels of statistical expertise – that of the e...