Promotion Criteria for Clinician-Educators
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Context.\p=m-\Clinician-educators have concerns about their ability to be promoted and the criteria used by medical school promotion committees. Objective.\p=m-\To discover the criteria and methods that medical school promotion committees use to make decisions about the promotion of clinician-educators. Methods.\p=m-\In June 1996 we mailed a questionnaire to chairpersons of all medical school promotion committees in the United States and Canada. Results.\p=m-\Of 142 schools surveyed, 115 (81%) responded; 45% of respondents had a clinician-educator promotion track. On a scale from 1 (minimally important) to 7 (extremely important), the mean importance ratings of aspects of clinicianeducators' performance were the following: teaching skills (6.3), clinical skills (5.8), mentoring (5.7), academic administration (5.3), developing educational programs (5.3), nonresearch scholarship (5.1), clinical research (4.8), service coordination (4.7), and education research (4.5). Methods to evaluate each aspect of perfor-
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