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Reasons for faculty departures from an academic medical center: a survey and comparison across faculty lines

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, January 2017
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Title
Reasons for faculty departures from an academic medical center: a survey and comparison across faculty lines
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BMC Medical Education, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12909-016-0830-y
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Sabine C. Girod, Magali Fassiotto, Roseanne Menorca, Henry Etzkowitz, Sherry M Wren

Abstract

Faculty departure can present significant intellectual costs to an institution. The authors sought to identify the reasons for clinical and non-clinical faculty departures at one academic medical center (AMC). In May and June 2010, the authors surveyed 137 faculty members who left a west coast School of Medicine (SOM) between 1999 and 2009. In May and June 2015, the same survey was sent to 40 faculty members who left the SOM between 2010-2014, for a total sample size of 177 former faculty members. The survey probed work history and experience, reasons for departure, and satisfaction at the SOM versus their current workplace. Statistical analyses included Pearson's chi-square test of independence and independent sample t-tests to understand quantitative differences between clinical and non-clinical respondents, as well as coding of qualitative open-ended responses. Eighty-eight faculty members responded (50%), including three who had since returned to the SOM. Overall, professional and advancement opportunities, salary concerns, and personal/family reasons were the three most cited factors for leaving. The average length of time at this SOM was shorter for faculty in clinical roles, who expressed lower workplace satisfaction and were more likely to perceive incongruence and inaccuracy in institutional expectations for their success than those in non-clinical roles. Clinical faculty respondents noted difficulty in balancing competing demands and navigating institutional expectations for advancement as reasons for leaving. AMCs may not be meeting faculty needs, especially those in clinical roles who balance multiple missions as clinicians, researchers, and educators. Institutions should address the challenges these faculty face in order to best recruit, retain, and advance faculty.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 62 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 13%
Other 7 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 10%
Professor 5 8%
Researcher 5 8%
Other 14 22%
Unknown 18 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 35%
Social Sciences 6 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 3%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 19 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 January 2019.
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#13,566,023
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#1,614
of 3,576 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#206,285
of 425,993 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#20
of 44 outputs
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