Faculty roster

[Diane Little]

Hello everyone! With ADS update in full force we are wanting to to clean up our faculty roster. My residents rotate at 4 sites for different rotations. In ADS I really don’t need every faculty member listed at each site correct? I have 9 residents in our program and 49 faculty members listed. What does your faculty roster look like? We just obtained initial accreditation so I don’t want any red flags to come up with this ADs updates. I think it would help our shcolarly activity if we eliminated some faculty members. Thoughts? Thank you!

[Joni Roberts]

You only have to list faculty once for your program.  You have core faculty and non-core faculty.  You may need all 49 faculty listed due to case log requirements, but they don’t all have to be core faculty.  Core faculty is based on the number of hours they do residency related education.  Hope this is helpful.

Joni

[Melissa Wheeler]

You need to look into whether they are faculty, meaning regular educators of residents, or occasional attendings that the residents scrub with.  Our program has a large private practice group that we work with in addition to the employed hospital group.  Our faculty list consists of core faculty and regular faculty that the residents work with on a consistent basis.  For any attending that they only cover occasionally, they are listed on case logs but not faculty.  I hope this helps.

[Jennifer Duane]

Hi Amanda

I agree with what others said about not needing to include every single surgeon in your faculty roster. But I would caution against doing a significant “housecleaning,” especially if you’re in initial accreditation phase. We received an AFI because the RRC picked up that we removed a lot of faculty members from our ADS roster over the course of 2 years. Even though we actually added more new faculty than we removed, it turns out that part of the data they look at focuses on the # of faculty that left so it appeared we had an attrition issue. The reality was that, as an old and large program, we had a lot of faculty still on our roster whose involvement with residents had gradually decreased over time, and as new people were added, it was time to take a more critical look at how many people really needed to stay on. So if you really think some in your roster really no longer meet the definition of faculty based on their level of engagement with the residents, I’d be careful about removing just a couple per year.

I don’t know how the RRC looks at scholarly activity, so I can’t really speak to that piece of it. I just know our GME advises everyone should have something listed, rather than “no activity.”

For context, I have 60 residents, 4 academic medical centers and 1 community hospital site, and the total faculty roster is 90-something.

Jen

[Jennifer Duane]

Hi Amanda

I agree with what others said about not needing to include every single surgeon in your faculty roster. But I would caution against doing a significant “housecleaning,” especially if you’re in initial accreditation phase. We received an AFI because the RRC picked up that we removed a lot of faculty members from our ADS roster over the course of 2 years. Even though we actually added more new faculty than we removed, it turns out that part of the data they look at focuses on the # of faculty that left so it appeared we had an attrition issue. The reality was that, as an old and large program, we had a lot of faculty still on our roster whose involvement with residents had gradually decreased over time, and as new people were added, it was time to take a more critical look at how many people really needed to stay on. So if you really think some in your roster really no longer meet the definition of faculty based on their level of engagement with the residents, I’d be careful about removing just a couple per year.

I don’t know how the RRC looks at scholarly activity, so I can’t really speak to that piece of it. I just know our GME advises everyone should have something listed, rather than “no activity.”

For context, I have 60 residents, 4 academic medical centers and 1 community hospital site, and the total faculty roster is 90-something.

Jen

[Melissa Wheeler]

I agree with Jen about being careful about removing a large number of faculty, however, when we “cleaned up” our faculty roster, we just made note of it in the major changes section, explaining why we removed some faculty (i.e. retirement, addition of new faculty that residents work with more consistently etc.).  If you explain why in the major changes section, it should avoid you getting AFI.

[Melissa Wheeler]

I agree with Jen about being careful about removing a large number of faculty, however, when we “cleaned up” our faculty roster, we just made note of it in the major changes section, explaining why we removed some faculty (i.e. retirement, addition of new faculty that residents work with more consistently etc.).  If you explain why in the major changes section, it should avoid you getting AFI.

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