Family medicine
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Because of the increasing work demands posed by the new supervisory requirements of IL 372, coupled with budget constraints resulting from decreasing external grant funding and shrinking practice revenues, departments must weigh workplace needs against faculty resources. Following a period of faculty shortage, the Department of Family Medicine at East Carolina University expected to achieve balance in staffing its department's clinical services, teaching obligations, and scholarly activities once additional faculty were hired. While relief from work obligations was noted once new hires were in place, there remained inadequate faculty to meet all the identified demands of the department. ⋯ To meet the increasing time demands on faculty in academic medical centers, departments need to have an accurate accounting of both workforce availability and work demands. The faculty workload assessment model described in this report can be used to generate such an accounting.