@article{10.22454/FamMed.2023.513661,
author = {Schiel, Kimberly and Everard, Kelly  M. and Dobbie, Alison},
title = {Promotion Committees and Attending Meetings Improve Promotion Rates for Early Career Faculty},
journal = {Family Medicine},
volume = {55},
number = {5},
year = {2023},
month = {5},
pages = {325-327},
doi = {10.22454/FamMed.2023.513661},
abstract = {Introduction: Academic promotion is an important goal in an academic physician’s career trajectory. Understanding the factors that influence success in academic promotion is important in providing appropriate guidance and resources.
Methods: The Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA) conducted a large omnibus survey of family medicine department chairs. Participants were asked about recent promotion rates within their department, as well as about whether their department had a promotion committee, whether faculty regularly met with the chair regarding preparation for promotion, whether faculty had been assigned mentors, and whether faculty attended national academic meetings.
Results: The response rate was 54%. Most chairs were male (66.3%), White (77.9%), and aged 50 to 59 (41.3%) or 60 to 69 (42.3%) years. Attendance at professional meetings was associated with a higher rate of assistant-to-associate professor promotions. Departments with a committee to help faculty with promotions had higher rates of promotion for both assistant-to-associate and associate-to-full professor levels than departments without a committee. Promotion was not associated with assigned mentorship, support from the chair, departmental or institutional sponsorship of faculty development regarding promotion, or annual assessments of progress toward promotion.
Conclusions: Attendance at professional meetings and the presence of a departmental promotions committee may be helpful factors in achieving academic promotion. An assigned mentor was not found to be a helpful factor.},
URL = {https://journals.stfm.org//familymedicine/2023/may/schiel-2022-0135/},
eprint = {https://journals.stfm.org//media/5667/schiel.pdf},
}