Measuring the academic value of academic medical centers: describing a methodology for developing an evaluation model at one Academic Medical Center

Table 2 Analysis of Group B AQIs. Presents a comparison between the two Delphi ranking rounds of group B AQIs, in descending order of their normalized values (NV) of importance in the second round

2nd round Rank	1st round Rank	Indicator description	2nd round^c		1st round
2nd round Rank	1st round Rank	Indicator description	Mean^a (SD)	NV^b	Mean (SD)^a	NV^b
6	11	Number of supervised students (Masters/Doctoral)	4.27 (0.39)	0.85	3.90 (0.48)	0.78
7	7	Percentage of residents passing stage ‘A’ exam (over the years)^d	4.16 (0.58)	0.83	4.22 (0.69)	0.84
8	12	MDs holding other Doctoral or Masters degrees	4.16 (0.24)	0.83	3.83 (0.34)	0.77
9	13	Approved patents	4.05 (0.36)	0.81	3.82 (0.52)	0.76
10	15	Excellence programs^f	4.05 (0.65)	0.81	3.77 (0.39)	0.75
11	10	Physician authorship rate^g	3.68 (0.46)	0.74	3.92 (0.58)	0.78
12	9	Scientific publications (Nominal)	3.75 (0.57)	0.75	4.18 (0.66)	0.84
13	6	Trained medical students	3.48 (0.63)	0.70	4.22 (0.62)	0.84
14	8	Approved research protocols by the IRB^e	3.36 (0.84)	0.67	4.20 (0.54)	0.84
15	16	Published books and book’s chapters	3.27 (0.39)	0.65	3.73 (0.40)	0.75
16	14	Utilizing residents’ positions	2.64 (1.20)	0.53	3.78 (0.77)	0.76

^aCalculated as a Grand Mean of the four queries rankings, per AQI
^bCalculated by dividing the Grand Mean by 5 (The maximum available points of the scale)
^cTesting the differences between the two rounds results, using t-test for paired means (n = 11), found that the differences are statistically insignificant (p-value = .15)
^dAn oral exam towards the end of the residency period
^eIRB – Institutional Review Board
^fSpecifically, the ‘Talpiot’ medical leadership program at Sheba medical center, a program that identifies and promotes the brighter young physicians in research and leadership [26]
^gRate of physicians who have published a scientific publication in the last year from overall FTEs

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