About us
Strategic Plan
Our Theory of Change
RDoC’s strategic plan emerged from our theory of change. Drawing from the lived experience of hundreds of residents across Canada and a comprehensive literature review, we captured our collective understanding of the current system.
We considered the attributes of a better system and the impact those improvements would have on resident well-being and ultimately Canada’s healthcare system.
The pyramid below shows the cascading benefits of a better medical education system, leading to high value benefits for Canada’s healthcare system.
This theory of change provides the framework upon which our strategic plan is based.
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- Residents contribute to a healthy society
- They are able to give their best to their patients and their lives
- They are proud to be caring, healing professionals
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- Residents grow with support in a collegial profession
- Residents have agency to build the careers they want and can sustain
- Residents feel competent and confident as they progress
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- Residents work where they desire and where they are needed
- Residents build skills and achieve excellence
- Life, education, and work are in healthy tension
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- Nationally consistent high quality education where learning is first, then service.
- Safe environment assured in accreditation and contracts
- Supported learning with effective feedback that optimizes learning.
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- Work environments lack the basics
- Overworked, lack of agency/control
- Loss of love of medicine – distress – self harm – suicide
Our Strategic Plan
RDoC’s strategic plan guides our work. We are stronger when we work together. We foster collaboration among our members, and we support residents in their critical role as role models and advocates for change.
We collect, synthesize and share the lived experience of residents and use that experience to inform our principles and positions in our advocacy.
We work toward systemic change at the national level, bringing a solutions-focussed mindset to the work we do that contributes to healthier ways for residents to learn and work.
Mission
RDoC champions the healthiest ways to learn and work
Goal
Create the medical culture we want
Vision
Healthy residents are fulfilled physicians
Focus Areas
RDoC’s strategic plan is for residents by residents.
RDoC’s governance model with PHOs at the center, paved the way for true national representation of all residents in Canada”
Dr. Esther Kim
Resident Doctors of Canada President, 2021/22
We built a strategic plan that gives RDoC the focus necessary to achieve its goals. Based on the lived experience of residents, it was clear how the medical education system is not optimized for residents. We believed the system could do better.”
Dr. Seyara Shwetz
Resident Doctors of Canada President 2022/23
Solidifying that strategic plan meant that PHOs would be well positioned to work together to drive system change
Dr. Carl White-Ulysse
Resident Doctors of Canada President, 2023
In our first year of implementation of our strategic plan we started to see tangible results.”
Dr. Devon Mitchell
Resident Doctors of Canada President, 2023/24
Learn more about RDoC’s Strategic Plan and what we are advocating for.”
Dr. Nimrit Bath
Resident Doctors of Canada President, 2024/25