Butani Lavjay, Plant Jennifer
Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Educ Health (Abingdon). 2021 Sep-Dec;34(3):109-112. doi: 10.4103/efh.EfH_332_18.
In academic health centers, education remains an incompletely supported and funded mandate. In an attempt to promote education and better support educational endeavors of faculty, some academic health centers and departments have conceived of a metric, the educational value unit (eVU), to begin to "quantify" teaching. What goes into this metric, its intended goals and the logistics of its implementation vary considerably among centers.
This practical advice paper highlights the various lessons learned from a review of the limited published literature on eVU systems supplemented with our personal experience in implementing a successful eVU system in the Department of Pediatrics at our institution, to help guide others who may be interested in doing that same. Even in limited-resource settings, our hope is that these lessons can serve as a guide on how to better quantify and reward teaching, whether through monetary or nonfiscal incentives and recognition.
在学术医疗中心，教育仍然是一项支持和资金投入都不充分的任务。为了促进教育并更好地支持教师的教育工作，一些学术医疗中心和部门设想了一种衡量标准，即教育价值单位（eVU），以开始对教学进行“量化”。这个衡量标准的构成要素、预期目标及其实施的后勤保障在各中心之间差异很大。
本实用建议文件重点介绍了从对关于eVU系统的有限已发表文献的回顾中吸取的各种经验教训，并补充了我们在本机构儿科学系成功实施eVU系统的个人经验，以帮助指导其他可能有兴趣这样做的人。即使在资源有限的环境中，我们希望这些经验教训能够成为关于如何更好地量化和奖励教学的指南，无论是通过金钱还是非财务激励和认可。
