An Academic Relative Value Unit System: Do Transparency, Consensus, and Accountability Work?

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Academic medicine continues to struggle in its efforts to compensate scholarly productivity. Academic achievements receive less recognition compared to clinical work, evidenced by a lack of reduced clinical hours or financial incentive. Core departmental education responsibilities are often distributed inequitably across academic departments. An approach using an incentive program, which emphasizes transparency, equity, and consensus may help academic departments share core education responsibilities and reward scholarly activity.

Methods

We launched a two-stage approach to confront the inequitable distribution of educational responsibilities and to recognize the scholarly work among our faculty. In the first stage, baseline education expectations were implement

SUBMITTER: Carmody KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6860393 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature