title: The Mayo Clinic's Clinician-Educator Award: A program to encourage educational innovation and scholarship.
abstract: In 1998, the Board of Governors of the Mayo Clinic requested that the Education Committee design and implement a program to grant time and resources to clinical faculty to support the development of educational projects. The essence of the resulting Clinician-Educator Award Program is the concept of using funding to award time and resources for educational projects judged to be meritorious by an impartial, peer-review-based faculty mentoring process. The authors report early experiences with the program, which was enthusiastically accepted by faculty, to provide a model to help other academic health centers, especially those with salary-based faculty, to facilitate educational innovation and scholarship despite the growing constraints on academic clinicians' time and resources.
authors.affiliation: Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. viggiano.thomas@mayo.edu
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Viggiano
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shub
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Giere
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D001363:Awards and Prizes; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D008910:Minnesota; D013663:Teaching