AUPN Leadership Minute Episode 2: How to Deal With a Difficult Faculty Member

Author(s):

Muhammad "Mud" M Alvi, MD,Mehmood Rashid, MD

Episode 2 of the AUPN Leadership Minute features Mud M Alvi, MD, of West Virginia University and Robert C. Byrd Health; and David Lee Gordon, MD, of University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

WATCH TIME: 4 minutes

AUPN's Leadership Minute is a brief, highly focused summary of practical advice for Chairs, Program Directors and other leaders in academic neurology, available as both mini-podcasts and in short form videos.

The goal of this program is to provide relevant and useful information in a modicum of time, designed to fit seamlessly into our very busy schedules.

DIFFICULT FACULTY MEMBER (DFM)

DEFINITION

Faculty member who makes other people unhappy in the workplace.

CONSEQUENCES OF INACTION

Time drain for chair and others.
Poor patient & learner evaluations reflect on entire group.
Turnover of other employees—staff and faculty members.
- Threat of turnover of other employees is the #1 criterion for chair intervention.

CONSEQUENCES OF ACTION

Stress of potentially dealing with defensive, confrontational person.
Stress of potentially dealing with DFM’s acts of retribution toward you and others.
Potential loss of positive contributions of the DFM (grants, patient volume, etc.).

Click here to access the full PowerPoint presentation for the episode.