Evaluation and promotion of the clinician-educator: the faculty viewpoint.

Changes in healthcare management and reimbursement have contributed to alterations in the traditional culture of academic medical centers and the roles and responsibilities of their physician faculty, including clinician-educators. Questions concerning the appropriate evaluation methodology and criteria for promotion of such clinical faculty have been raised. In our survey of a large university-based physical medicine and rehabilitation department, only minimal differences were related to age, gender, and academic rank, and these are discussed.