Until recently, most schools have not done so. Many schools are now under pressure from state legislators, managed care companies, hospital partners, etc., to follow suit. Now, metrics that describe faculty and departmental contributions to education and research are gaining currency as well. Baylor College of Medicine has been developing and testing a fairly extensive series of metrics in education, research, and patient care to measure school outputs. Many research-intensive schools have adopted metrics to gauge the productivity of assigned research space.
Education is a relatively new area for quantifying faculty activity.
This field is rapidly advancing. The impetus has come from educators who are concerned that teaching activities get a fair share of institutional resources. The department of medicine at Cornell University was one of the first to promote a relative value scale for teaching, but many others, like the University of Cincinnati, have done so as well. Several of these systems have been published and discussed at national meetings. Those schools exemplify some of the new management processes and procedures enabled by the reporting systems.