Current surgery
-
We continue to increase the amount of evaluations to improve the outcomes of our residency programs. Although ongoing faculty evaluations clearly are an important part of faculty development, their value in terms of improving the program needs to be evaluated. The questions asked were as follows: (1) Do faculty evaluations continue to improve the faculty over the course of successive evaluation periods? (2) Are there groups of faculty who would benefit the most from faculty evaluation feedback? (3) Are there any specific objective categories within the evaluation that carry more value and may help to shorten this form? ⋯ (1) Ongoing faculty evaluations indeed are a powerful tool to improve the faculty as a whole. (2) The faculty members with the lowest evaluations showed the largest amount of improvement. (3) Providing feedback to the residents seems to be the most valued factor by the residents for faculty evaluations and perhaps could become the basis of the evaluation for the most accomplished faculty.
-
Prior data have shown that resident duty-hour reform has not affected faculty work hours; yet the preservation of faculty hours may have been at the expense of productivity. We sought to examine change in clinical productivity. ⋯ Faculty have preserved work hours and clinical productivity, despite a tendency to take on work previously done by residents. This suggests that academic activities may have suffered.