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Total productivity. Total productivity. Medical Education productivity. Medical Education productivity. Impact of Director role on Professional advancement. Impact of Director role on work satisfaction. Summary I : Demographics. Clerkship directors span the age range of faculty members
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Summary I : Demographics • Clerkship directors span the age range of faculty members • Surgeons are older, more likely tenured, but tenure is disappearing • Age by itself is negatively related to career satisfaction • Years in the clerkship director role has the opposite association with satisfaction
Summary II : Clerkship Features • Surgery and Ob/Gyn are most likely to have night call • All clerkships have about 50% of grade from ward evaluations • Surgery and Ob/Gyn most likely to have recent decrease in clerkship length • Surgeons most concerned with national curriculum, and incorporating simulation
Summary III : Resources • Individual surgeons spend < the 50% recommended, but most have co-directors • Staff support is less than full-time national recommendation, but better than other disciplines • Clinical release time/salary support less than recommended
Summary IV : Productivity • Surgeons self-report median productivity in medical education • Surgeons report greater TOTAL productivity for presentations and publications • Surgeons are very productive? • Surgeons are very optimistic? • Both?
Summary V: Impact • Only a small minority of clerkship directors feel the role has slowed their academic advancement • Over half feel it has enhanced their academic advancement • Remarkably, over 90% of surgery clerkship directors report the role has significantly enhanced satisfaction with their work-and none are neutral.
The role must be rewarding, so the trend to multiple co-clerkship directors may enhance faculty morale Conclusion?