Strategic Plan

2025 Strategic Plan

Empower Healthy Communities

Years 1-3:

• Improve access to CDM services, including select specialty oral health care, through the exploration of new oral health delivery models.
• Improve access to CDM services through new business models and alignment with MUSC Health billing practice protocols.

Years 3-5:

• Improve access to oral health services through an integrated network of rural general practice residency programs.
• Enhance the care experience for MUSC patients through strategic co-location of dental offices within MUSC Health primary care sites.
• Improve access to oral surgical care through regional dental-only ambulatory surgical centers.

Years 5-10:

• Expand oral health services & delivery of oral health education and interventions through collaborative partnerships.
• Drive Innovation and Health Transformation
• Drive investment in innovation, creating new knowledge and scientific discoveries through an expanded research portfolio
  
  

Years 5-10:

• Expand research portfolio by supporting entrepreneurial activities to enhance commercialization.
• Grow emerging and existing areas of research excellence.
• Drive transformative changes in health care, research enrollment, and learning
  
  

Years 10-20:

• Be known as the premier provider of digital dentistry patient care.
• Become nationally & internationally known for our digital dentistry curricula.
• Reshape the Future Workforce
• Foster an environment that creates workplace engagement and value
  
  

Years 1-3:

• Strengthen workforce recruitment & retention strategies through peer-led Workforce Development (retention & recruitment) Committee.

Years 5-10:

• Strengthen alumni engagement through new infrastructure.
• Inspire and equip learners and employees to be leaders in oral health and education
  
  

Years 1-3:

• Improve our graduates’ success through enhancements to the predoctoral curriculum.
• Strengthen faculty and staff success through new mentorship initiatives & professional development.

Years 5-10:

• Increase the number of dental graduates by expanding the pre-doctoral program in other regions of SC.
• Explore new residency programs based on the needs of the state.
• Explore new professional programs with partnering institutions such as technical colleges.