Brief Description: The Faculty
Performance Program is a web-based program designed to collect and collate
(monthly with a numerical value) all clinical and non-clinical activities
performed by a physician in an academic institution. The program generates a
quantifiable report on physician performance to provide the individual junior
faculty member and department leadership a clearer understanding of his or her
productivity.
Applications: Every academic clinical
department in medicine struggles with documenting the various clinical and
non-clinical activities carried out by its physician members. While clinical
activity can be monitored by national work-Relative Value Scales (wRVUs),
academic centers have found it difficult to value quantitatively departmental
citizenship, administration, teaching, research (grants and publications) and
community service. The Faculty Performance Program (FPP) adapts the wRVU system
to create a numerical value for all clinical and non-clinical activities using
time as the determinate. The program generates a comprehensive monthly,
quarterly and annual report card for each physician within his or her specialty
division, and the methodology allows comparison across medical specialties. This
report card can then be used to generate electronic annual reports and
curriculum vitae, and ultimately alignment of faculty activity with salary and
bonuses. The Faculty Performance Program is based on a model that is adaptable
to all medical specialties over a wide range of academic and medical
fields.
Advantages: The academic medical
field, among other industries, has yet to effectively create a comprehensive
assessment and reward tool for faculty productivity. There is a pressing need
under current economic pressures to develop a computerized academic faculty
productivity program that generates a quantifiable value for time spent in
clinical activity, departmental citizenship, administration, teaching, research,
and community service. The program is based on the concept of the clinical value
of a unit of time modified to reward time-related non-clinical activity. In
essence, time is used as a common modality allowing the program to link clinical
activity to non-clinical activity. The premise of time and productivity is
fundamental to this program. How that unit of time is used represents the basis
of the program.