COAMS 2022-2027 Strategic Plan was developed through an extensive and complete process. The college leadership formulated a task force that reviewed and reaffirmed the college's mission, vision, and goals. COAMS has developed a new strategic plan for the next five years (2022-2027) that builds on the previous one, but it has been redesigned with an updated vision, mission, and specific goals and objectives that align with the mission and vision of the King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences.
Through planning, meetings, and discussion, the strategic plan team identified five areas of focus for the strategic plan – Education; Research; Community Services, Resources, and Innovation. The first three focus areas directly align with the college's mission, while the other two areas were chosen to foster integration of the college's mission and to identify opportunities for collaboration and partnership within and outside the college.
As the college has eight programs, a representative from each program was included as a member of the strategic plan task force. Initially, an orientation workshop about SWOT analysis was held, and then each program individually discussed in their department's meeting the SWOT analysis concerning their departments and came up with lists of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Subsequently, common identified items were categorized and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats were formulated as a college SWOT analysis list. From this list, we came up with three main goals, along with a newly developed mission, vision, and core values. These goals were sent to all faculty, staff, and students as a survey for comments and to give their feedback on the goals. Then, the final goals list was confirmed. All stakeholders (faculty, staff, and student representatives from both male and female colleges) were invited to comment on the strategic goals and their initiatives. 40 faculty and staff members, both male & female (Riyadh – Jeddah – Al Ahsa Campuses) attended the meeting. The meeting was conducted to ensure diverse and comprehensive representation from across the college. All faculty and staff members were encouraged to share their ideas and thoughts about suggested goals.
Alongside, several meetings were facilitated by the Dean of the College and program directors to provide additional opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to participate in the strategic planning process. These comprehensive discussions concluded with the creation of nine objectives under three strategic goals.
The COAMS Strategic Planning Steering Committee, which consisted of a member from each program in the college, reviewed, ranked, and consolidated the proposed projects with the purpose of finalizing the selection of projects to constitute the 2022-2027 strategic plan. This committee was responsible for recommending the final plan to the COAMS Dean and the college council for approval.
