Department of Biostatistics Pillar Goals
Goals Established June 2010
Note: The first metric in each pillar is the one that will be reported to the School of Medicine each year; others are for internal monitoring.
PEOPLE
Goal: Retain highly-satisfied, productive and engaged employees
Metrics:
- Annual department survey - the sum of responses to the following five questions. On a 0-100 scale to what extent are you:
- fulfilled by your work?
- respected, recognized, and rewarded by your supervisor, colleagues, collaborators, and department for your work?
- challenged sufficiently?
- increasing your knowledge/skill set since joining the department?
- receiving adequate mentoring for your career?
- Retention rates for faculty and staff
- VUMC Community Survey (staff survey data)
- Promotions
- Establishment of mentoring committees for faculty at Assistant Professor level and below (all tracks)
Note: the 5-question survey will be administered by REDCap using a slider (the 0 and 100 anchors will not be mentioned).
SERVICE
Goal: Successful implementation of Biostatistics Collaboration Center - grow and integrate the BCC as a viable resource
Metrics:
- Reduction of operating cost loss (in dollars)
- Usage of BCC - the number of projects initiated during the year
- Implement data collection regarding request fulfillment (first year)
- Responsiveness to needs of other departments measured by % of requests that are filled within one month (second and later years)
QUALITY
Goal: Publications
Metrics:
- The yearly metric will be the sum of publication scores for the previous calendar year for all publications having an author who is at least a half-time member of the department
- The score is the prevailing impact factor for the journal in which the paper is published, but not to exceed 20
- If a department member is a first author, the score is multiplied by 10
- The highest score is used for the article (no double counting if multiple department members are authors)
GROWTH & FINANCE
Goal: Extramural grant support for research and education
Metrics:
- Total external funding
- Counts fringe benefits and other elements of BCC charges
- Considers any external funding: grants, contracts, consulting, and gifts
- For collaborative grants uses the total $ (salary + fringe + BCC charges) for all department personnel and their expenses and equipment on the grant
- For grants in which a department member is the PI, uses the total grant $ (directs and indirects) from the grant for the current year
- For grants in which a department member is the Co-PI, uses half the total grant $ (directs and indirects) from the grant for the current year
- For grants in which a department member is a Core Director or Project Leader, uses the total core or project budget $ (directs and indirects) from the grant for the current year
- For grants in which a department member is officially a Co-Core or Co-Project leader, uses half the total core or project budget $ (directs and indirects) from the grant for the current year
- % increase in sponsored research over prior year
- % effort supported by sponsored research (in aggregate for faculty/staff members)
- Total salary support outside department (salary/FB/BCC/Collaboration Plan)
- Weighted credit depending on biostatistician project role (PI, co-PI, Core Director, co-I etc.) factoring in total project directs/indirects
INNOVATION
- Graduate Program in Biostatistics
- SOM overall goals to be established.
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LindaStewart - 18 Jun 2010
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FrankHarrell - 19 Jun 2010