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| Title |
A survey of retaining faculty at a new medical school: opportunities, challenges and solutions
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Education, September 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12909-018-1330-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Fauzia Nausheen, Mukesh M Agarwal, John J Estrada, Dhammika N Atapattu |
| Abstract |
At well-established academic university settings, retaining faculty remains a pressing challenge due to competing market forces, decreasing institutional support, and changing personal expectations. There is a paucity of information about the difficulties faced by new medical schools to maintain their academic workforce. The objective of this study was to determine the challenges facing the faculty at a newly developed medical school. Twelve founding faculty were surveyed anonymously by a 32-item questionnaire. Their responses were independently analyzed by three researchers. The views of the faculty were categorized into in four inter-related themes: personal, support, institutional, and environmental. The constant sources of satisfaction among faculty were higher academic rank (75%), harmonious inter-collegial relationships (74%), healthy pecuniary rewards (58%), better professional growth (58%) along with greater autonomy, administrative independence, minimum groupism and excellent team work. Poor opportunities for promotion (68%), reduced support for scholarly activities (67%) and unsatisfactory support from the administration (55%) were detrimental to retaining faculty. By addressing specific issues facing its staff, every new medical school will not only manage to retain its academic faculty but also be able to attract well qualified academic staff from established medical institutions worldwide. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
| Spain | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 38 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 38 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Professor | 7 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 11% |
| Librarian | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 4 | 11% |
| Unknown | 15 | 39% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 18% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 8% |
| Psychology | 2 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 6 | 16% |
| Unknown | 16 | 42% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. 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 26 September 2018.
All research outputs
#17,990,409
of 23,103,903 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#2,648
of 3,387 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#243,800
of 341,066 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#45
of 59 outputs
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