UCSF CLINICIAN SCIENTIST SURVEY Comparison of Clinician Scientists and non-Clinician Scientists

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UCSFCLINICIAN SCIENTIST SURVEYComparison of
Clinician Scientists and non-Clinician Scientists

• June 2000

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TASK FORCE MEMBERS

• Daniel Bikle, MD, PhD
• Chair
• Professor in Residence Endocrinology
• Brian Alldredge, PharmD
• Professor
• Clinical Pharmacy
• Diane Dillon
• Director of Academic Personnel Office of the
  Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

• Stanton Glantz, PhD
• Professor
• Cardiology
• Arnold Kahn, PhD
• Professor
• Growth Development
• Nelson Schiller MD
• Professor in Residence
• Cardiology
• Meg Wallhagen PhD Associate Professor
• Physiological Nursing

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OTHER CONTRIBUTORS

• David McKalip, MD
• Assistant Professor in Residence Neurological
  Surgery

OFFICE OF ACADEMIC SENATE

• Tamara Maimon
• Director
• Judy Dang
• Administrative Analyst

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METHODOLOGY

• The survey was sent to all faculty. The number
  of responses to the initial survey was 319.

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1. What is your career path at UCSF?
Clinician Scientists only Total 200
All others Total 119
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Gender representation
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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2. What is your current title or academic rank?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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3. What is/are your degree(s)?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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4. What is your current series?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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5. Has your series changed while at UCSF?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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6. If yes, from which series?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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7. What is your school?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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8. What is your department?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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9 and 10 Current and 5 years prior salary support
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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11 and 12 Current and 5 years prior professional
time partition
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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13. How has your grant funding changed over the
past 5 years?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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14. How has your peer reviewed publication record
changed over the past five years?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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15. Have you changed areas of research in the
past 5 years?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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16. Was the change prompted by having less time
to do research?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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17. Does your current balance of professional
activities reflect your desired balance?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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18. Provide your preferred balance
This question was misleading because it
instructed to rank 1-3 and 1-6. Scale should have
been 1,2,3 but participants used 1,2,3,4,5,6.
Therefore ranking may be inaccurate because
uncertain which scale participants used. Answers
did not get filtered by software program.
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19. What factors are preventing you from
achieving your desired balance?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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20. In the early stages of your career at UCSF,
how much mentoring did you receive?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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21. Who provided the mentoring?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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22. How has support for research changed over the
past 5 years in terms of financial and
administrative support and protected time?
This question was misleading because it
instructed to rank 1-3 and 1-5. Scale should have
been 1,2,3 but participants used 1,2,3,4,5.
Therefore ranking may be inaccurate because
uncertain which scale participants used. Answers
did not get filtered by software program.
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23. Would greater latitude and support for
collaborative research be helpful for your career
at UCSF?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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24. Do you believe that clinical research
involving direct patient interactions receives
the same support, recognition, and credit for
promotion purposes as more basic research at UCSF?
Clinician Scientists only
All others
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Key Topics

• Salary Support
• Funding of research for junior/starting faculty
• Mentoring junior faculty
• Adequate lab space

• Adequate time for research and teaching
• Promotion criteria
• Enhanced Clinician Researcher collaboration

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• A successful clinician-scientist, measured as a
  prominent clinician and scientist, is a difficult
  task. Clinically, you are competing with
  full-time clinicians who are protecting their
  practices to sustain their salaries.
  Scientifically, you are competing with full-time
  scientists who are pushing as hard as they can to
  protect their grant support. In this atmosphere
  of highly polarized needs, it is a tall order to
  succeed on both fronts.