Wisconsin Academy of Family Physician

2011 Strategic Plan

Approved by the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians Board on 11/6/2010

Mission Statement:

The mission of WAFP is to promote excellence in health care and to improve the health of the people of Wisconsin through the advancement of the art and science of Family Medicine and the professional growth of Family Physicians.

Areas of Focus

Patient Centered Medical Home

Goal 1: Promote payment reform at national, state and local levels

1. Facilitate and participate in discussions with payers (ie. WPRI)
2. Identify opportunities for payment reform
3. Prepare and disseminate information and tools for members to address payment reform with payers and employers
4. Collaborate on payment reform with ACP, AAP and others
5. Continue Multi-Stakeholder implementation efforts

Goal 2: Communicate to members, policy makers, payers and the public the benefits of PCMH, define its components and advantages to patients, practices and physicians

Goal 3: Provide members and practice managers with information, models, CME and resources about methods that work to implement the components of the Patient Centered Medical Home

1. Promote recognition after payment reform
2. Encourage members to use the MHIQ
3. Promote best practices
4. Assist small practices

Legislative Advocacy

Goal 1: Develop and promote family physicians as health policy leaders and partners

Goal 2: Increase the influence and presence of WAFP in the legislative process

1. Preserve Wisconsin’s medical liability climate
2. Monitor scope of practice
3. Promote access to care

Membership Value

Goal: Promote the membership value equation 

1. Promote the value of membership to physician employers
2. Provide support for MoC (SAMs parties)
3. Achieve 100% student membership
4. Promote membership following residency

Leadership Development

Goal: Develop current and future leaders

1. Identify and develop leaders in systems
2. Create a succession plan

Support a Sufficient Family Medicine Workforce

Goal: Support strategies to recruit and train a culturally diverse family physicians workforce in Wisconsin

1. Create and implement strategies to identify and recruit mentors/preceptors
2. Find new ways to work with the medical schools