Quantifying physician teaching productivity using clinical relative value units

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 617-621

  Yeh, Michael M ^a,b   Cahill, Daniel F ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Medicine Faculty Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee performance appraisal; Medical education; Medical faculty; Relative value scales; Teaching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRODUCTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EFFICIENCY; EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; RELATIVE VALUE SCALES; TEACHING;

EID: 0032702891     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1999.01029.x     Document Type: Article

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