TY - JOUR
T1 - The American College of Academic International Medicine 2017 Consensus Statement on International Medical Programs
T2 - Establishing a system of objective valuation and quantitative metrics to facilitate the recognition and incorporation of academic international medical efforts into existing promotion and tenure paradigms
AU - Peck, Gregory
AU - Garg, Manish
AU - Arquilla, Bonnie
AU - Gracias, Vicente
AU - Anderson, Harry
AU - Miller, Andrew
AU - Hansoti, Bhakti
AU - Ferrada, Paula
AU - Firstenberg, Michael
AU - Galwankar, Sagar
AU - Gist, Ramon
AU - Jeanmonod, Donald
AU - Jeanmonod, Rebecca
AU - Krebs, Elizabeth
AU - McDonald, Marian
AU - Nwomeh, Benedict
AU - Orlando, James
AU - Paladino, Lorenzo
AU - Papadimos, Thomas
AU - Ricca, Robert
AU - Sakran, Joseph
AU - Sharpe, Richard
AU - Swaroop, Mamta
AU - Stawicki, Stanislaw P.
N1 - Funding Information:
Seed grants from one’s institution (department, hospital, and/or university) or professional societies constitute an important mechanism of financial support.[46]One excellent example of how financial support can be optimized and aligned with institutional and individual priorities is the University of Toledo Kohler Travel Grant program, which offers small grants of up to $1500 to initiate international collaboration efforts.[47]After the exploratory phases of the project are completed, individual needs assessment is performed, including faculty‑generated report of their activities, successes, and/or failures. The subsequent creation of formalized, bidirectional exchanges can help facilitate further growth and development of institutional AIM efforts, with the eventual creation (or joining of) existing IMPs.
PY - 2017/10/1
Y1 - 2017/10/1
N2 - The growth of academic international medicine (AIM) as a distinct field of expertise resulted in increasing participation by individual and institutional actors from both high-income and low-And-middle-income countries. This trend resulted in the gradual evolution of international medical programs (IMPs). With the growing number of students, residents, and educators who gravitate toward nontraditional forms of academic contribution, the need arose for a system of formalized metrics and quantitative assessment of AIM-and IMP-related efforts. Within this emerging paradigm, an institution's 'return on investment' from faculty involvement in AIM and participation in IMPs can be measured by establishing equivalency between international work and various established academic activities that lead to greater institutional visibility and reputational impact. The goal of this consensus statement is to provide a basic framework for quantitative assessment and standardized metrics of professional effort attributable to active faculty engagement in AIM and participation in IMPs. Implicit to the current work is the understanding that the proposed system should be flexible and adaptable to the dynamically evolving landscape of AIM-an increasingly important subset of general academic medical activities.
AB - The growth of academic international medicine (AIM) as a distinct field of expertise resulted in increasing participation by individual and institutional actors from both high-income and low-And-middle-income countries. This trend resulted in the gradual evolution of international medical programs (IMPs). With the growing number of students, residents, and educators who gravitate toward nontraditional forms of academic contribution, the need arose for a system of formalized metrics and quantitative assessment of AIM-and IMP-related efforts. Within this emerging paradigm, an institution's 'return on investment' from faculty involvement in AIM and participation in IMPs can be measured by establishing equivalency between international work and various established academic activities that lead to greater institutional visibility and reputational impact. The goal of this consensus statement is to provide a basic framework for quantitative assessment and standardized metrics of professional effort attributable to active faculty engagement in AIM and participation in IMPs. Implicit to the current work is the understanding that the proposed system should be flexible and adaptable to the dynamically evolving landscape of AIM-an increasingly important subset of general academic medical activities.
KW - American College of Academic International Medicine
KW - consensus statement
KW - global health
KW - international medical programs
KW - international medicine
KW - promotion and tenure
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U2 - 10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_64_17
DO - 10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_64_17
M3 - Article
C2 - 29291172
AN - SCOPUS:85038374408
SN - 2229-5151
VL - 7
SP - 201
EP - 211
JO - International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science
JF - International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science
IS - 4
ER -