Open AccessWork Activities of Clinician‐Educators
Author(s) -
Sheffield John V. L.,
Wipf Joyce E.,
Buchwald Dedra
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of general internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.746
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 1525-1497
pISSN - 0884-8734
DOI - 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1998.00120.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , medicine , work (physics) , promotion (chess) , medical education , work hours , mechanical engineering , politics , political science , law , engineering
In order to make meaningful scholarly contributions, clinician‐educators need protected time. Forty‐one clinician‐educators at the University of Washington recorded their work activities in 30‐minute intervals for 2 weeks. The average work week was 58.7 hours (SD = 13.8). The time devoted to scholarship, 7.6 hours (13%), was significantly less than the 20% designated for scholarship in the clinician‐educator job description ( p < .001); 42% of scholarly work occurred outside the regular work week. At a time when many schools rely on clinician‐educators to sustain their clinical and teaching missions, schools should ensure that faculty have adequate time and resources to meet scholarly expectations for promotion.