Ontario Medical Association
About Ontario Medical Association
- The Ontario Medical Association (OMA) represents the political, clinical and economic interests of the province's medical profession.
- Practicing physicians, residents, and students enrolled in any of the five Ontario faculties of medicine are eligible for OMA membership.
- OMA is governed by a Council composed of over 250 delegates, representing 77 territorial divisions, and by the Association`s Board of Directors.
Challenges
- The OMA had decided to re-implement their members-only website utilizing SharePoint 2007
- All business units in the organization were asked to contribute to the new solution. Few knew SharePoint.
- To achieve their implementation deadlines the key staff from across all business units needed to get up-to-speed quickly.
Solution
- A detailed corporate training plan was developed to satisfy their needs
- Several introductory SharePoint training sessions were conducted at SharePoint's training facilities
- Follow-on and focused private training sessions were conducted on advanced SharePoint topics.
Benefits
- Rapid training of staff utilizing SharePoint's field proven courseware
- A common mindshare across the organization on the 'SharePoint project' as a result of the intense focused offsite training and diverse student mix.