scholarly journals Impact of implementing a competency-based job framework for clinical research professionals on employee turnover

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-335
Author(s):  
Marissa Stroo ◽  
Kirubel Asfaw ◽  
Christine Deeter ◽  
Stephanie A. Freel ◽  
Rebecca J. N. Brouwer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Employee Turnover ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Turnover Rate ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Medical Setting ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Research Professionals

AbstractIntroduction:A new competency-based job framework was implemented for clinical research professionals at a large, clinical research-intensive academic medical center. This study evaluates the rates of turnover before and after implementation of the new framework. Turnover in this workforce (as with most) is costly; it contributes to wasted dollars and lost productivity since these are highly specialized positions requiring extensive training, regardless of experience in the field.Methods:Trends in employee turnover for 3 years prior to and after the implementation of competency-based job framework for clinical research positions were studied using human resources data. Employee demographics, turnover rates, and comparisons to national statistics are summarized.Results:Employee turnover within the clinical research professional jobs has decreased from 23% to 16%, a 45% reduction, since the implementation of competency-based job framework.Conclusion:The new jobs and career ladders, both of which are centered on a competency-based framework, have decreased the overall turnover rate in this employee population. Since little is known about the rates of turnover in clinical research, especially in the academic medical setting, the results of this analysis can provide important insights to other academic medical centers on both employee turnover rate in general and the potential impact of implementing large-scale competency-based job changes.

scholarly journals 3115 Barriers and Resources in Career Development in Academic Medicine as Reported by Junior Faculty

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (s1) ◽  
pp. 63-63
Author(s):  
Julie Schweitzer ◽  
Julie Rainwater ◽  
Rebeca Giacinto ◽  
Hendry Ton
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Medical Setting ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Academic Medical

OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: To identify the most frequently reported barriers/constraints and resources by junior faculty in achieving their goals at a large medical school in the Western United States. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: We reviewed 222 individual development plans (IDPs) from 26 departments in an academic medical center for content regarding constraints and resources to achieve activities and barriers and/or resources to achieve new goals. The content and quality of the IDPs included was ascertained using quantitative data analysis as well a review of open-ended qualitative questions. In addition to analyzing the content, the quality and percent completion of data filled out for each field in the IDP was also assessed to help identify gaps with departments in successfully completing and submitting their IDPs. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Junior faculty indicated the following barriers: time/time management (55%); work/life balance (32%); funding (8%) and other (5%). Junior faculty also indicated that they had resources to help them achieve their goals, including: mentors (60%); collaborators (26%); colleagues (6%); other (8%). DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: The barriers in goal achievement (e.g., time/time management & work/life balance issues) at this academic medical setting suggest that further resources regarding time management and work - life balance need to be developed and disseminated in order to assist faculty in achieving their objectives. This project also reinforces the importance of having a robust mentor or mentoring team for junior faculty. Mentors and administrators should work collaboratively with junior faculty to identify resources to improve time management and work-life balance.

The relative importance of reputation and pride as predictors of employee turnover in an academic medical center

2020 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Sherwood Brown ◽  
Jayme Palka ◽  
Sabrina V. Helm ◽  
Alexandra Kulikova
Keyword(s):  
Employee Turnover ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Academic Medical

Enhancing Pediatricians’ Behavioral Health Competencies Through Child Psychiatry Consultation and Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 958-969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather J. Walter ◽  
Gina Kackloudis ◽  
Emily K. Trudell ◽  
Louis Vernacchio ◽  
Jonas Bromberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Primary Care Practitioners

The objective of this study was to assess feasibility, utilization, perceived value, and targeted behavioral health (BH) treatment self-efficacy associated with a collaborative child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) consultation and BH education program for pediatric primary care practitioners (PCPs). Eighty-one PCPs from 41 member practices of a statewide pediatric practice association affiliated with an academic medical center participated in a program comprising on-demand telephonic CAP consultation supported by an extensive BH learning community. Findings after 2 years of implementation suggest that the program was feasible for large-scale implementation, was highly utilized and valued by PCPs, and was attributed by PCPs with enhancing their BH treatment self-efficacy and the quality of their BH care. After participation in the program, nearly all PCPs believed that mild to moderate presentations of common BH problems can be effectively managed in the primary care setting, and PCP consultation utilization was congruent with that belief.

An organizational model for developing multidisciplinary clinical research in the academic medical center

1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 741-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary E. Charlson ◽  
John P. Allegrante ◽  
James P. Hollenberg ◽  
Ted P. Szatrowski ◽  
Margaret G. E. Peterson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Organizational Model ◽  
Academic Medical

A patient education intervention improved rates of successful video visits during rapid implementation of telehealth

2021 ◽  
pp. 1357633X2110087
Author(s):  
Roman E Gusdorf ◽  
Kaustav P Shah ◽  
Austin J Triana ◽  
Allison B McCoy ◽  
Baldeep Pabla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Cohort ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Phone Call ◽  
Black Race ◽  
Commercial Insurance ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Telephone Calls ◽  
First Time

Introduction The need to rapidly implement telehealth at large scale during the COVID-19 pandemic led to many patients using telehealth for the first time. We assessed the effect of structured pre-visit preparatory telephone calls on success of telehealth visits and examined risk factors for unsuccessful visits. Methods A retrospective cohort study was carried out of 45,803 adult patients scheduled for a total of 64,447 telehealth appointments between March and July 2020 at an academic medical center. A subset of patients received a structured pre-visit phone call. Demographic factors and inclusion of a pre-visit call were analysed by logistic regression. Primary outcomes were non-completion of any visit and completion of phone-only versus audio-visual telehealth visits. Results A pre-visit telephone call to a subset of patients significantly increased the likelihood of a successful telehealth visit (OR 0.54; 95% CI: 0.48–0.60). Patients aged 18–30 years, those with non-commercial insurance or those of Black race were more likely to have incomplete visits. Compared to age 18–30, increasing age increased likelihood of a failed video visit: 31–50 years (OR 1.31; 95% CI: 1.13–1.51), 51–70 years (OR 2.98; 2.60–3.42) and >70 years (OR 4.16; 3.58–4.82). Those with non-commercial insurance and those of Black race (OR 1.8; 95% CI 1.67–1.92) were more likely to have a failed video visit. Discussion A structured pre-call to patients improved the likelihood of a successful video visit during widespread adoption of telehealth. Structured pre-calls to patients may be an important tool to help reduce gaps in utilization among groups.

scholarly journals Factors Associated with Clinical Research Recruitment in a Pediatric Academic Medical Center—A Web-Based Survey

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. e0140768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Rose Denhoff ◽  
Carly E. Milliren ◽  
Sarah D. de Ferranti ◽  
Sarah K. Steltz ◽  
Stavroula K. Osganian
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Research Recruitment ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Academic Medical

scholarly journals Adapting data management education to support clinical research projects in an academic medical center

2019 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin B. Read
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Data Transfer ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Collaborative Training

Background: Librarians and researchers alike have long identified research data management (RDM) training as a need in biomedical research. Despite the wealth of libraries offering RDM education to their communities, clinical research is an area that has not been targeted. Clinical RDM (CRDM) is seen by its community as an essential part of the research process where established guidelines exist, yet educational initiatives in this area are unknown.Case Presentation: Leveraging the author’s academic library’s experience supporting CRDM through informationist grants and REDCap training in our medical center, we developed a 1.5 hour CRDM workshop. This workshop was designed to use established CRDM guidelines in clinical research and address common questions asked by our community through the library’s existing data support program. The workshop was offered to the entire medical center 4 times between November 2017 and July 2018. This case study describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of this workshop.Conclusions: The 4 workshops were well attended and well received by the medical center community, with 99% stating that they would recommend the class to others and 98% stating that they would use what they learned in their work. Attendees also articulated how they would implement the main competencies they learned from the workshop into their work. For the library, the effort to support CRDM has led to the coordination of a larger institutional collaborative training series to educate researchers on best practices with data, as well as the formation of institution-wide policy groups to address researcher challenges with CRDM, data transfer, and data sharing.

scholarly journals #MedToo: A Large-Scale Examination of the Incidence and Impact of Sexual Harassment of Physicians and Other Faculty at an Academic Medical Center

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily A. Vargas ◽  
Sheila T. Brassel ◽  
Lilia M. Cortina ◽  
Isis H. Settles ◽  
Timothy R.B. Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical

scholarly journals Nurse adaptability: Implementing clinical trials in the midst of a pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Sarah J. Mendez ◽  
Brian Raimondo ◽  
Patricia Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Hospital Units ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Clinical Research Trials ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Study Intervention

Working in Manhattan, the center of the nations’ outbreak of the novel coronavirus-19 virus truly demonstrated how adaptable nurses are. During this time, multiple clinical research trials began at our academic medical center, NYU Langone Health, as researchers attempted to learn what medical interventions worked best to treat critically-ill COVID-19 patients. In designing and implementing these trials, the researchers had little familiarity with the workings of inpatient hospital units. They did not understand how nursing staff provided care to patients on these units. Likewise, many bedside nurses had never assisted researchers in conducting clinical research on their patients. Therefore, a nursing operations team (NOT) was needed to assist both the research teams and the inpatient nurses. NOT met with the researchers to review proposed clinical research trials and determine how nursing staff would be utilized to complete the required research tasks such as specimen and data collection, study intervention administration, and patient monitoring. Toward that end, NOT developed education and training materials on all of the research trials that were implemented at NYU Langone Health for our bedside nurses. This education included tip sheets, safety huddle rounds with the involved units, and “just in time” education to any nurse whose patient was urgently enrolled in a trial. In this way, NOT helped bedside nurses quickly adapt to their role in assisting the research team conduct their studies on our COVID positive inpatients.

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