The academic RVU: a system for measuring academic productivity.

Measuring Productivity Changes in Academic Units

In this study, the productivity changes of industrial and comprehensive universities have been measured using the Malmquist Index based on data envelopment analysis in the period of 2013-2014 and 2014- 2015. The input variables include the number of faculty members, the number of newly enrolled students, the number of staff, and total expenses; the output variables also include the number of cu...

The Impact of Working with Medical Students on Resident Productivity in the Emergency Department

INTRODUCTION Academic emergency departments (ED) strive to balance educational needs of residents and medical students with service requirements that optimize patient care. No study to date has evaluated whether resident precepting of medical students affects residents' clinical productivity. Understanding the interplay of these variables may allow for ED staffing that maximizes productivity. W...

The Research RVU (rRVU): In Search of a Methodology to Incentivize and Compensate Clinicians for Participation in Clinical Research Activities.

بررسی تاثیر آموزش یادگیری مستقل برعملکرد تحصیلی در دانش‌آموزان مبتلا به اختلال کم‌توجهی – بیش‌فعالی

Introduction: The objective of the present study is to investigate the effect of  training the independent learning program on the Academic Performance in students suffering from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Method: The research design was quasi-experimental with pretest/posttest and the control group. the population included all male students aged at 10 to 12 years old su...

Those Who Can, Do and They Teach Too: Faculty Clinical Productivity and Teaching

OBJECTIVE Academic emergency physicians (EPs) often feel that the demands of clinical productivity, income generation, and patient satisfaction conflict with educational objectives. The objective of this study was to explore whether the quality of faculty bedside teaching of residents correlated with high clinical productivity, measured by relative value units (RVUs). We also explored the strat...