Editorial Note
Omelettes without Eggs
The year of 2009 will have three important aspects as its main challenges: the first, the change arising from the restructuring of the Faculty with the new statutes that will come into effect during the second term of 2009; the second aspect, the consolidation of the curricular alteration in the medicine course and going beyond 2,000 undergraduate students, and finally the definitive implementation of computer software that will introduce significant improvements in the faculty/user relationship.
As is logical, the alteration of the Statutes of the Faculty will be reflected in the organics of its services. At the same time, the need to do better with the same people will lead to this reorganisation being supported on a functional focus, in which the task will be made compatible with the organisational model.
From this comes the organizational challenge of finding capable and imaginative responses that might end the rigid and pyramid structures, aiming at new transversal projects of a founding nature in which the services are involved with the focus of the task to be carried out.
The growth in the number of students and the consolidation of the curricular alteration in the medicine course in the faculty will, in 2009, force alterations in the organizational component. From the outset the management of the spaces and timetables, as well as the increasing need to find an electronic secretariat in order to deal with the students’ needs.
In this sense, the projects for the service will involve the setting up of an electronic programme of giving marks, available for the second semester of the present academic year, and the new site of the Institute of Advanced Training (IFA), where there is a virtual office platform in which everything will be accessible with a click, guaranteeing the possibility of meeting the expectations of those who seek us.
Also, the integration of the management of human resources and the financial aspect is one of the objectives for 2009, with it being possible to create a management information system never previously made available and of vital importance for modern organisations.
As for areas to receive the public, 2009 will be the year of the modernisation of the faculty’s academic services, which will now be available to users in the space next to the students’ room, with a modern service, in which the working conditions and those of receiving the public will be the main concern.
This will also be the year when several questionnaires on satisfaction with the services, which will be sued as the basis for an assessment of them, something which is intended to be a constant process and a reaction to change whenever necessary. For this, the participation of everyone will be very important in order to obtain valid results that will allow us to learn.
Unfortunately, it is not all good news. All of these challenges are constrained by a budget that is exactly the same as in 2008, and which does not take into account the increase in salaries for the public service and, for this very reason, will demand greater efficiency from us in cost management and greater skill in achieving revenue.
In fact, the great challenge of 2009 will be: “How to make omelettes without eggs”.
As is logical, the alteration of the Statutes of the Faculty will be reflected in the organics of its services. At the same time, the need to do better with the same people will lead to this reorganisation being supported on a functional focus, in which the task will be made compatible with the organisational model.
From this comes the organizational challenge of finding capable and imaginative responses that might end the rigid and pyramid structures, aiming at new transversal projects of a founding nature in which the services are involved with the focus of the task to be carried out.
The growth in the number of students and the consolidation of the curricular alteration in the medicine course in the faculty will, in 2009, force alterations in the organizational component. From the outset the management of the spaces and timetables, as well as the increasing need to find an electronic secretariat in order to deal with the students’ needs.
In this sense, the projects for the service will involve the setting up of an electronic programme of giving marks, available for the second semester of the present academic year, and the new site of the Institute of Advanced Training (IFA), where there is a virtual office platform in which everything will be accessible with a click, guaranteeing the possibility of meeting the expectations of those who seek us.
Also, the integration of the management of human resources and the financial aspect is one of the objectives for 2009, with it being possible to create a management information system never previously made available and of vital importance for modern organisations.
As for areas to receive the public, 2009 will be the year of the modernisation of the faculty’s academic services, which will now be available to users in the space next to the students’ room, with a modern service, in which the working conditions and those of receiving the public will be the main concern.
This will also be the year when several questionnaires on satisfaction with the services, which will be sued as the basis for an assessment of them, something which is intended to be a constant process and a reaction to change whenever necessary. For this, the participation of everyone will be very important in order to obtain valid results that will allow us to learn.
Unfortunately, it is not all good news. All of these challenges are constrained by a budget that is exactly the same as in 2008, and which does not take into account the increase in salaries for the public service and, for this very reason, will demand greater efficiency from us in cost management and greater skill in achieving revenue.
In fact, the great challenge of 2009 will be: “How to make omelettes without eggs”.
