Faculty Development Survey

Sapna Kuehl, M.D. (St. Agnes Hospital), Daisy Smith, M.D. (Lankenau Hospital)

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Overview

• Community Hospitals have highly variable resources to conduct faculty development and face special challenges with involving and improving voluntary faculty.
• Study done in 2000 by Jeanne Clark, M.D. et al. showed 39% of teaching hospitals had ongoing faculty development practices and 60% (half of university hospitals and two-thirds nonuniversity hospitals) did not.*
• The purpose of the survey was to explore faculty development practices at institutions in the CHERN survey group and to explore how CHERN can assist its members with these programs.
• This survey was conducted in June 2010 using survey monkey of the 45 member CHERN survey group. Survey response was 64%.

Results

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Conclusions

• 89.7% of all respondents offer faculty development at the time of the survey.  44.8% of programs surveyed offer faculty training more than once a year.
• The topics that were most frequently covered in faculty development were: 1) ACGME competencies 2) Resident assessment/evaluation 3) General teaching skills and 4) Mentoring
• 44.4% of respondents were very pleased or somewhat pleased with their current faculty development, whereas 24.9% of respondents were somewhat displeased or very displeased with theirs.
• The largest challenges to faculty development were resources and lack of interest.
• 92.9% of respondents would like CHERN to provide a forum to share power point presentations, videos and notes from other institutions and 75% felt that sharing a list of speakers in CHERN would be helpful.
• 53.6% reported interest in a periodic webinar offered through CHERN and 46.4% had interest in podcasts and other on-demand resources.

* JM Clark, TK Houston, KKJWT Branch, RB Teaching the Teachers National Survey of Faculty Development in Departments of Medicine of U.S. Teaching Hospitals Gen Intern Med. 2004 March; 19(3): 205–214.

 

What do you do for faculty development at your institution?  Please check all that apply.
Answer Options	Response Percent	Response Count
Use our own developed curriculum.	48.3%	14
Use faculty development resources of an affiliated institution.	48.3%	14
Use purchased resources.	20.7%	6
Use outside speakers.	48.3%	14
Use web based training.	17.2%	5
No regular organized activity	17.2%	5
Other (please specify)		3
answered question		29
skipped question		0