title: Recruiting primary care physicians to teach medical students in the ambulatory setting: a model of protected time, allocated money, and faculty development.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Medical schools face barriers to recruiting physicians to teach in the ambulatory setting for many reasons, including time required to teach, loss of productivity when learners are present, and physicians' uncertainty about how to teach.
  
  
  METHODS
  In 2012, the primary care department of the University of Queensland-Ochsner Clinical School (UQ-OCS) implemented an innovative model for recruiting primary care physicians to teach students in their clinics. The model's three-pronged approach allows protected teaching time, allocates tuition money to reimburse physicians for teaching via educational value unit (EVU) tracking, and includes a faculty development program.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the first two years of EVU tracking (academic years 2012 and 2013), 5,530 EVUs were provided by 48 primary care faculty teaching 60 students at 11 sites. In academic year 2013, the first year in which tuition dollars were available to fund teaching by primary care faculty, over $120,000 in tuition money was transferred to the department to pay for EVUs. No faculty in 2012 or 2013 experienced a change in salary as a result of teaching activities. Faculty development workshops have been well attended. The general practice clerkship has been the top-rated third-year clerkship by students for the first three years of clinical rotations at the UQ-OCS.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A qualitative study to describe the barriers to and solutions for recruiting physicians to teach students in ambulatory settings is planned. Other studies will evaluate the effectiveness of faculty development efforts and the impact of students' presence on patients' access to clinic appointments.
authors.affiliation: G.D. Denton is associate professor, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and clerkship director of the general practice clerkship, University of Queensland-Ochsner Clinical School, New Orleans, Louisiana. R. Griffin is a chief medical resident, Department of Medicine, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, Louisiana. P. Cazabon is senior lecturer, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and system medical director for adult primary care, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, Louisiana. S.R. Monks is chief administrative officer, University of Queensland-Ochsner Clinical School, and system vice president for education, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, Louisiana. R. Deichmann is associate professor, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and deputy head of school for students, University of Queensland-Ochsner Clinical School, New Orleans, Louisiana.
authors.forename: G Dodd
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Denton
authors.forename: Ryan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Griffin
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cazabon
authors.forename: Shelly R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Monks
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Deichmann
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002322:Career Mobility; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008145:Louisiana; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010560:Personnel Selection; D058007:Physicians, Primary Care; D011793:Queensland; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D013997:Time Factors; D000078329:Workforce