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

Table 3 AMCs Academic Value - Final AQIs. Presents the suggested AQIs for AMCs academic evaluation methodology and their relative weights, grouped by three core categories: ‘Education’, ‘Research’ and ‘Publications’

Indicator’s name	Description	Relative weight^a	Internal distribution^b
Education		36.3%	1.0
Residents quality	Percentage of passing residents exams, over the years^c	11.3%	0.31
Academic training	Total number of delivered tutoring days for students^d	8.7%	0.24
Academic positions	Percentage of MDs holding another Doctoral or Masters degrees	8.3%	0.23
Academic supervision	Total Number of supervised students (Masters/Doctoral)^e	8.0%	0.22
Research		32.0%	1.0
Completed studies	Total Number of completed research studies, approved by IRB^f	13.5%	0.42
Competitive grants	Competitive research grant funding (USD)	10.2%	0.32
Number of studies	Total number of budgeted research studies	8.3%	0.26
Publications		31.7%	1.0
Scientific publications value	Weighted value of published manuscripts^g	18.7%	0.59
Authors value	Total number of publications scored as i-10 Index^h	13.0%	0.41

The suggested AQIs and their relative weights, in a scale from zero to one (0–1); for details see Additional file 1.
^aThe total sum of all AQIs relative weights equals 100%
^bThe total sum of each category internal distribution equals 100%
^cOnly for those who participated the exam at the first time; the proposed period is five years
^dMedical, Nursing and Public Health students
^eAggregate sum for the last three years; only in cases where supervision lasted at least one academic year or two semesters
^fIRB – Institutional Review Board
^gBased on Impact factor (IF) quality quarters
^hThe i-10 index represents the number of the scientist’s publications that have at least ten citations each

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