AAMC Council of Faculty and Academic Societies (CFAS) Pamela N Peterson, MD MSPH Associate Professor of Medicine Kevin Lillehei, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery

AAMC Mission: The AAMC serves and leads the academic medicine community to improve the health of all Provide support services and leadership to academic medical programs –Education, research, patient care Established 1876 by Deans of American Medical Colleges 141 US and 17 Canadian Medical Schools, 400 teaching hospitals, 64 VAMCs, 90 academic and scientific societies MCAT, ERAS

AAMC Organizations Groups Councils –Council of Deans (COD) –Council of Teaching Hospitals (COTH) –Council of Faculty and Academic Societies (CFAS) 2013 Transition from Council of Academic Societies

AAMC Governance Chair elect of 3 Councils are members of the Board of Directors –Council of Deans –Council of Teaching Hospitals –Council of Faculty and Academic Societies

Council of Faculty and Academic Societies Established 2013 from previous Council of Academic Societies (1967) Represent perspectives of academic medicine faculty to the AAMC Engage a broader range of perspectives Elevate the role of medical school faculty in AAMC governance

Council of Faculty and Academic Societies 355 members 225 AMC representatives 2 appointments each member school –Senior (leadership position) –Junior (within 10 years) Academic societies, 130 representatives –Mona Abaza – Society of University Otolaryngologists

CFAS Mission To identify the issues facing faculty members of medical schools; to provide a voice for faculty members to the AAMC; and to serve as bidirectional conduit between AAMC and faculty members related to the core missions of academic medicine

Membership Survey To identify top priorities for CFAS within the AAMC CFAS representatives participated on behalf of medical school faculty Round table discussions of priorities identified in survey at Nov 2013 meeting

‘Top 10’ Shifting emphasis to clinical productivity from research and teaching Changing roles of faculty due to health system aggregation trends Threat to sustainable research agenda by federal fiscal crisis Risk of federal funding for residency positions; work force and GMA cap Improving resident educations, evaluation metrics, competencies

‘Top 10’ Opportunities for innovation in education: teaching, learning, content, delivery Challenges related to work life balance, 2-career families Prepare/train physician leaders for increasing roles in AMC governance Shifting focus from growth to strength in balancing the AMC missions Need for mentoring to address rapidly changing environment in academic medicine

Task Forces Advocacy Basic Science Faculty Resilience Faculty Identity and Value Mission Alignment and Faculty Values

Advocacy Task Force Charge Provide opportunities for faculty’s voice to be heard on legislative and regulatory policy issues of priority and importance to faculty Ensure message alignment with other AAMC constituent and leadership groups Update: focusing on NIH funding and GME

Basic Science Task Force Charge Discuss impact of funding trends on faculty vitality and mission activities Define, evaluate and promote the value of fundamental research to the public, policy makers and other members of academic community Training and sustaining the research and basic science educator workforces of the future Update: outlined a number of concerns, working on paper defining value to AMC

Faculty Resilience Task Force Charge Identify practices that successfully promote faculty vitality and well being –Professionally –Personally Update: identifying best practices, workshops for spring meeting

Faculty Identity and Value Task Force Charge Definition of a faculty member, especially in light of the major expansion of AMCs through acquisition of non-teaching clinicians Distinctive attributes of faculty regardless of track, mission activity, discipline or specialty How faculty are viewed and defined by the public and policy makers Faculty attrition: causes and impact

Mission Alignment and Faculty Values Task Force Charge Facilitate discussions and initiatives related to inherent tensions between various missions of academic medicine: –How pressure for clinical productivity impacts education/teaching –Effects of P&T policies on clinician- educator tracks –Development and outcomes of systems that recognize eRVUs

Statement on Definition of Faculty Outlines a framework for defining faculty across settings –Fundamental component: educational and scholarly parts of what one does Thresholds of participation defined locally –Variable component: an expression of academic focus that can vary by individual and should be defined by each institution –Defining attributes can be used to evaluate for appointment, promotion, or to define modifier in faculty title

Merging of the Faculty Identity and Value and Mission Alignment and Faculty Values Task Forces Align with AAMC priority area of GME –2 new areas of focus Value of faculty as educators Faculty development Educational Product Metrics to evaluate educational productivity (eRVU)

Recent and upcoming CFAS activities November AAMC Annual meeting Spring CFAS meeting (March) Interim conference calls

Mission Alignment and Faculty Values Task Force Chair: Vincent Pellegrini, Jr., M.D. Promotion and Tenure The Balance (tension) of Education and Clinical Responsibility Scholarship Emerging “classes” of faculty “value” Mentoring: What does this look like across the country? Career Lifespan “maintaining value”