"The view of surgery department chairs on part time faculty in academic" by Hilary Sanfey, Jeannie Savas et al.
 

The view of surgery department chairs on part time faculty in academic practice: results of a national survey.

Publication/Presentation Date

9-1-2006

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Reduced resident work hours sparked debate regarding lifestyle of clinical faculty. We hypothesized surgery department chairs would not be supportive of part-time clinical faculty (PTF) and would be reluctant to grant requests to reduce total institutional commitment (TIC) or total professional effort.

METHOD: A 16-question survey was mailed to 202 surgery chairs requesting department demographics, and perception of PTF. Chairs were given the option of identifying themselves. PTF referred to full-time equivalent clinicians who reduce their TIC for personal/family reasons and did not include clinicians with research or teaching commitments limiting clinical responsibilities.

RESULTS: A total of 112 of 186 (61.2%) delivered surveys were returned. Of these, 48.2% of respondents indicated clinicians had requested reduced TIC and 40.2% of departments had PTF. Only 1 chair was unable to grant a request to reduce TIC. A total of 42.8% of respondents indicated that PTF receive reduced salary-linked benefits but (58.9%) no change in either academic status or (52.7%) eligibility for promotion/tenure. The percentage of women faculty was 12.0% in departments with PTF and 10.5% in departments without PTF. A total of 42.8% of chairs agreed facilitating PTF would improve faculty retention versus 24.1% who disagreed (P

CONCLUSIONS: Contrary to our hypothesis, surgery department chairs appear to be supportive of PTF and were interested in discussing this further.

Volume

192

Issue

3

First Page

366

Last Page

371

ISSN

0002-9610

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

16920432

Department(s)

Department of Surgery

Document Type

Article

Link to Full Text

Share

COinS