Dr. Tumin: Research Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Assistant Dean of Clinical and Educational Scholarship, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. Mr. Baumgarten: Medical student, California Northstate University College of Medicine, Elk Grove, CA. Ms. Buckman: Director of Research Administration, Department of Pediatrics, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. Dr. Kuehn: Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pediatrics, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. Dr. Higginson: Executive Dean, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2022 Apr 1;42(2):148-150. doi: 10.1097/CEH.0000000000000420. Epub 2022 Feb 17.
Physician faculty have increasingly been appointed to nontenure track positions, which provide limited support for scholarly activity. We evaluated how a centralized departmental research group affected the scholarly productivity of faculty on and off the tenure track.
A research team providing both mentorship and logistical study support was implemented in 2018. We identified a pre-intervention cohort of physician faculty employed in July 2016, and a postintervention cohort, employed in July 2018. A publication search was conducted for these cohorts in the period 2017 to 2018 and 2019 to 2020, respectively.
Seventy-five faculty were included in the analysis, with approximately two-thirds appointed on the clinical (nontenure) track. In the pre-intervention cohort (n = 59), 15 faculty (25%) had at least one publication in the period 2017 to 2018. In the postintervention cohort (n = 59), 33 faculty (56%) published at least one article in the period 2019 to 2020 (P = .001). Multivariable random-effects regression analysis confirmed that postintervention, odds of publishing in a given year increased for both clinical-track and tenure-track faculty.
Both clinical and tenure-track faculty contribute to the academic mission at medical schools, yet scholarly activity is supported and rewarded for tenure-track faculty more often than for clinical-track faculty. Our centralized research team successfully fostered scholarly activity among both clinical-track and tenure-track faculty.
越来越多的医师教职员工被任命为无终身教职的职位，这些职位对学术活动的支持有限。我们评估了一个集中的系研究小组如何影响终身教职和非终身教职教职员工的学术生产力。
2018 年实施了一个提供指导和后勤研究支持的研究团队。我们确定了 2016 年 7 月雇用的一组前干预医师教职员工和一组后干预教职员工，2018 年 7 月雇用。分别对这两组在 2017 年至 2018 年和 2019 年至 2020 年期间进行了出版物搜索。
共有 75 名教师参与了分析，其中约三分之二的人被任命为临床（非终身）轨道。在前干预组（n=59）中，有 15 名教师（25%）在 2017 年至 2018 年期间至少有一篇出版物。在后干预组（n=59）中，有 33 名教师（56%）在 2019 年至 2020 年期间至少有一篇文章发表（P=0.001）。多变量随机效应回归分析证实，在后干预期间，临床轨道和终身教职轨道的教职员工在给定年份发表论文的几率都增加了。
临床和终身教职的教职员工都为医学院的学术使命做出了贡献，但学术活动的支持和奖励更多地是为终身教职的教职员工，而不是为临床轨道的教职员工。我们的集中研究团队成功地促进了临床轨道和终身教职轨道的教职员工的学术活动。
