Surveyed community physicians affiliated with a teaching hospital to assess factors influencing their decisions to serve as preceptors and the relative value of incentives. Found that student influence on patient care was a driving factor, that preceptors preferred nonmonetary compensation, such as continuing medical education credit, and that…

Evaluted the outcomes of the Curriculum Workshop Series for junior faculty participating in the Harbor-UCLA Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship. Participants were to create an individual curriculum project using six fundamental steps of curriculum development. Six of eight projects were implemented in residency programs; outside experts…

Family medicine faculty participated in focus groups to gather their perceptions about faculty development. They emphasized that faculty development methods must be proven effective, woven into the fabric of clinical practice, and deal with increasing time and financial pressures. Much discussion was related to the need for national and regional…

Investigated group characteristics associated with authoritative versus collaborative teaching by behavioral science faculty. Faculty used twice as many collaborative as authoritative teaching comments. Males used more authoritative comments than females; first-year and female residents received more teaching than did more-experienced and male…

Describes a technique designed to assess workforce availability and workload demands on family-medicine faculty at East Carolina University (North Carolina), using weeks per year as the unit of measurement. During the assessment period, a study revealed the department needed 2.8 additional faculty to cover existing work requirements and…