Mission-based reporting in academic psychiatry.
OBJECTIVE
This article describes a data entry and analysis system called Mission-Based Reporting (MBR) that is used to measure faculty and department activities related to specific academic missions and objectives. The purpose of MBR is to provide a reporting tool useful in evaluating faculty effort and in helping chairs 1) to better assess their department's performance in relation to other departments and their school as a whole, 2) to plan for the future, and 3) to reward individual faculty members.


METHODS
Mission-Based Reporting summaries, generated for each faculty member and each department, illustrate contributions to each of four missions: research, teaching, clinical service, and administrative/public service. Data from MBR can be used to evaluate whether faculty scholarly contributions are appropriate to their rank and series. That report provides data from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California and the University of California Davis School of Medicine (UC Davis).


CONCLUSIONS
Mission-Based Reporting is a useful management tool for department and school administrators. Improvements in implementation are proposed.
Anders
Thomas F
TF
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, M.I.N.D. Institute, 2825 50th St., Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. tfanders@ucdavis.edu
Hales
Robert E
RE
Shahrokh
Narriman C
NC
Howell
Lydia P
LP
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