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ID Physician FTE
ID Physician FTE
E. TRACKING YOUR TIME
Once FTE definitions are established, physicians should account for their time by role or deployment component to monitor their own contributions compared to their organization’s definition of a 1.0 FTE.
• Clinical effort:
◦ On-call shifts worked;
◦ Busyness of on-call shifts (see section III.E.1.c for additional details);
◦ Half-day clinics attended (commonly tracked via scheduling tools by the employer);
◦ Weeks on inpatient service (commonly tracked via scheduling tools by the employer);
◦ Outpatient care plan coordination, including outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy;
◦ Documentation time;
◦ Interdisciplinary case conferences;
◦ Medical staff meetings.
• Administrative effort:
◦ Time spent (in hours) performing the job.
• Meetings attended;
• Hours outside of meetings (discussions before the meeting or independent work effort relevant to the administrative job).
While administrative effort is often tracked through time sheets and some accounting of clinical effort is readily available in most organizations (weeks on service, shifts on call or clinics attended), there are several free smartphone apps (e.g., TMetric, Harvest, Hubstaff) that can be used to track other contributions physicians make. Tracking every activity all the time is neither desirable nor sustainable. Therefore, many physicians who track their effort with this level of detail only do so for a few weeks at a time periodically throughout the year. This information can then be used to monitor deviations in effort and, in some cases, negotiate increased compensation as recognition for working more than a 1.0 FTE.