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A Rational and Equitable Process to Financially Support Faculty Teaching Efforts

A Rational and Equitable Process to Financially Support Faculty Teaching Efforts. Pray L, Williams NN, Mullen JL, Drebin JA, Morris JB Jon B. Morris, MD Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair, Education April 20, 2010. Introduction.

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A Rational and Equitable Process to Financially Support Faculty Teaching Efforts

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  1. A Rational and EquitableProcess to Financially Support Faculty Teaching Efforts Pray L, Williams NN, Mullen JL, Drebin JA, Morris JB Jon B. Morris, MDProfessor of Surgery and Vice Chair, EducationApril 20, 2010

  2. Introduction • Meaningful teaching requires timeand effort which should be financially rewarded.

  3. PENN Medicine

  4. PENN Surgery Education • One centralized budget for all training programs managed by the Vice Chair for Education Jeffrey Drebin Surgery Chairman Jon Morris Vice Chair, Education Program Director, General Surgery Lori Pray Director, Surgery Education Administration 6.5 FTE Undergraduate Medical Education GraduateMedical Education ProfessionalMedical Education

  5. Inter Entity Transfer (IET) - Hospital Funds Flow* • Clinical Metrics (82%) • New program start-up/new recruit • Programmatic support • Incentive payment • Teaching Metrics (12%) • Program Director support • Supervision/Faculty teaching • Undergraduate Medical Education • Research Metrics (6%) • Academic development funds • Indirect cost sharing • Salary coverage incentive payments * Kennedy, David W. MD; Johnston, Elizabeth MBA; Arnold, Ethan MPH. Aligning Academic and Clinical Missions Through an Integrated Funds-Flow Allocation Process. Academic Medicine, December 2007, Volume 82, Issue 12, Pages 1172-1177

  6. PENN Surgery Education IET Breakdown • 25% of the Education IET covers resident and operational expenses • 6.5 FTE in the Division of Surgery Education • All UME, GME and PME activities • 75% is distributed back to the Divisions to support base pay for all teaching Faculty members using the Relative Teaching Value Unit (RTVU) methodology

  7. Distribution of the Education IET Relative Teaching Value Units (RVUs) • Faculty evals of educational recipients • Quantitative • Evaluation of the Faculty by recipients • Quantitative and Qualitative • Didactic Sessions • Lecture, CME, PBL, Div Conf, SIM • Educational Leadership Positions • PD, APD, CD, Site Coordinators

  8. Calculation of RTVUs • Evaluation Metrics and Didactic Teaching sessions are calculating by percentile ranking = RTVU score • 90th%=5, 80th%=4.5, 70th%=4, 60th%=3.5, 50th%=3, 40th%=2.5, 30th%=2, 20th%=1.5. 10th%=1, 0th%=0 • Educational Leadership RTVUs as determined by VCE

  9. 1. Faculty Evals of Educ Recipients • # of documented Faculty electronicevals of: • Medical students • General surgery residents • Specialty residents/fellows

  10. 2. Educ Recipient Evals of Faculty • # of documented electronic evals of Faculty from: • Medical students • General surgery residents • Specialty residents/fellows Mean Score X # evals = total score

  11. 3. Didactic & Simulation Sessions • # of documented Faculty teaching sessions: • UME lecture/PBL, surgery broadcast, etc. • General surgery residents conference • CME/PME courses • Simulation sessions (3X) • Self reported activities with sign-off from the Division Directors Based on contact hours

  12. 4. Educational Leadership Positions • # of designated positions • CME course director (1 RTVU per course) • Program Director (5 RTVUs + # trainees) • UME/GME site director (5 RTVUs) • Med Student course director (15 RTVUs) • Advanced Med Student electives site coord (varies based on the # of students)

  13. What’s It Worth ? 1 RTVU = $2300 in fy11 base salary support • 90th% in Faculty evals = 5 RTVU = $ 11,500 • 90th% in Evals of Faculty = 5 RTVU = $11,500 • 48 or more Faculty didactics = 5 RTVU = $11,500 • PD Leadership positions - $11,500 to $142,600

  14. RTVU Distribution Normalized

  15. PENN Surgery Faculty Compensation Plan Base Pay + Incentive • Faculty incentive = 20% of pay at risk • Metrics = Threshold (0.5), Target (1.0)and High Performance (1.5) • Department budgets to 1.2 average payout

  16. Education Incentives • Education metric = 5% of total incentive • Education metrics are calculated from a blended score of evaluations as teacher from medical students, general surgery residents and fellows. • No payout = <5% • Threshold = 5 – 9.9% • Target = 10 – 69.9% • High Performance = 70+%

  17. Challenges • Base pay vs. incentive • Widely divergent salaries and metrics • Providing an incentive reward to a core group of educators by redistributing incentives from clinical to education metrics (budget neutral)

  18. Conclusion • This process is rational and equitable way to financial support the teaching faculty efforts • RTVU metrics support base pay(i.e. good for the Department) • Incentive metrics reward faculty directlyfor teaching (i.e. good for the Individual)

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