@article{10.22454/FamMed.2019.313365,
author = {Everard, Kelly  M. and Zoberi, Kimberly and Jacobs, Christine},
title = {Factors Associated With Successfully Filling Faculty Vacancies in Family Medicine },
journal = {Family Medicine},
volume = {51},
number = {6},
year = {2019},
month = {6},
pages = {489-492},
doi = {10.22454/FamMed.2019.313365},
abstract = {Background and Objectives: Faculty vacancies are a concern for chairs of academic family medicine departments who regularly face having to recruit new faculty. Faculty physicians who report lack of support for research and teaching or excessive time in activities that are not meaningful may experience burnout resulting in leaving academic medicine.
Methods: Data were collected via a Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA) survey of US family medicine department chairs. To determine characteristics associated with success in hiring new physician faculty, chairs answered questions about the number of vacancies in the previous 12 months, the number of vacancies filled in the previous 12 months, the months the longest vacancy was open, starting salary, whether signing bonus was offered, and the full-time equivalent (FTE) for clinical, research, teaching, and administrative time.
Results: The response rate was 52%. Chairs reported an average of 3.9 vacancies in the previous 12 months, and an average of 2.5 (66%) were filled. Chairs who didn’t offer protected time for teaching filled a higher percentage of their vacancies, but they did not fill them faster than departments that did offer teaching time. Higher salary and a signing bonus were associated with filling positions faster. Chairs who offered a signing bonus filled positions nearly 4 months sooner than those who didn’t.
Conclusions: Offering protected time for teaching or research and FTE allocation for clinical, teaching, research, and administrative time were not associated with success in hiring new faculty. Chairs who offered higher salaries and signing bonuses were able to hire faculty more quickly than those who didn’t.},
URL = {https://journals.stfm.org//familymedicine/2019/june/everard-2018-0394/},
eprint = {https://journals.stfm.org//media/2371/everard-2018-0394.pdf},
}