Evaluation and promotion of the clinician-educator - The faculty viewpoint

Changes in healthcare management and reimbursement have contributed to alte rations in the traditional culture of academic medical centers and the role s and responsibilities of their physician faculty, including clinician-educ ators, Questions concerning the appropriate evaluation methodology and crit eria for promotion of such clinical faculty have been raised. In our survey of a large university-based physical medicine and rehabilitation departmen t, only minimal differences were related to age, gender, and academic rank, and these are discussed.