What You Need to Know
AAMC Standpoint Survey
WashU Medicine recognizes that our people are our greatest strength. As faculty, you perform a multitude of critical roles and significant responsibilities, including delivering excellent health care, conducting groundbreaking research and teaching the next generation. As part of our continued commitment to faculty development and to implement the Task Force on Climate & Culture’s recommendation to deploy a biannual faculty engagement survey, WashU Medicine has chosen to participate in the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) StandPoint® Faculty Engagement Survey.
The survey will launch on February 4, 2025, and will take you less than 10 minutes to complete.
All full-time and part-time faculty members in the School of Medicine are eligible to participate in the survey and are encouraged to complete it. Your individual responses are completely confidential.
The StandPoint survey is evidence-based, validated, and designed to aid academic medical centers in developing practices to attract and retain excellent faculty. It will allow us to compare faculty engagement across departments and with our peers. To date, more than 70 U.S. medical schools have participated in StandPoint surveys. It is administered externally by the AAMC.
AAMC will send you a personalized link to the survey via email from StandPointSurveys@aamc.org and will contact you directly with reminders to participate. Once you submit your survey, you will not receive additional alerts from StandPoint.
Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR) & Interfolio
Annual Reviews will be completed in Interfolio for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Annual Reviews for all faculty are important as a best practice and necessary to comply with LCME accreditation requirements.
We want to share an important update regarding the implementation of Interfolio’s Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR), which many refer to as the CV-Builder module.
We have heard your concerns regarding data entry challenges, formatting issues, and the need for more comprehensive training and communication. While dedicated efforts have been made to make the FAR-CV Builder module work since January 2023, it has become clear that the platform, in its current state, is not meeting our needs as expected.
The following changes are now in place:
- Faculty should not enter additional data into the FAR-CV Builder module until further notice. All the data you have previously entered remains available and you can download your data anytime.
- Faculty will upload a PDF version of their CV for annual reviews, consistent with the current process used for promotions, appointments, and tenure. An updated CV template is available on the Faculty Promotions & Career Development website.
Faculty should continue to use the Review, Promotion and Tenure (RPT) module for their annual reviews, appointments, promotions, tenure, and transfer of tracks. Faculty should upload a PDF version of their CVs and other documents (e.g. Executive Summary, Clinician Track Impact Report) for annual reviews, consistent with the current process used for appointments, promotions, tenure, and transfer of tracks.
In the meantime, WashU IT is working diligently to enhance training and support for the Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) module.
Please contact InterfolioWUSM@email.wustl.edu to request assistance with your Interfolio questions.