Table 2.

Teaching rewards and barriers

Rewarding aspects	Mean score*
Teaching allows me to interact with medical students	4.6
I feel a good deal of fulfillment as a teacher	4.4
My skills are sharpened when I teach medical students	4.2
The teaching of medical students is respected by my patients	3.7
I enjoy the academic recognition for teaching medical students	3.5
The teaching of medical students is respected by my colleagues	3.5
The clinical faculty appointment is important to me	3.4
Current or potential barriers	Mean score*
I would like to spend more time with my family	4.2
My administrative duties are making it more difficult to volunteer	3.8
I have to see more patients per day and cannot spare the time	3.0
I would like to volunteer for something else	2.6
I am considering discontinuing my volunteer activities with students	2.1
My patients did not like having a medical student present	2.0
I am losing interest in teaching medical students	1.9
I had a bad experience while teaching past medical students	1.5

^*A 5-point Likert scale, with 1 indicating “strongly disagree”; 3, neutral; and 5, “strongly agree.”