There are also differences in revenue sources, clinical vs. research orientation, and budgeting systems. Most of the Wisconsin surgery department's revenues are clinical. While nearly all department physicians have official duties at the medical school, the majority spend most of their time as clinicians, says administrator Kevin McMahon. The department must balance its budget each year. Among medical school departments of medicine, Indiana is the sixteenth top recipient of NIH grants.
Pay is calibrated primarily to market levels.
It will sooner address a deficit by not hiring new people than by not paying market rates to physicians. Fox says that in general, medical school medicine departments are more research-oriented than surgery departments, which tend to focus on clinical and teaching pursuits. Here are details of the Wisconsin surgeons' plan. There are basically two sources of pay for all medical foundation physicians, McMahon says. The first is the University of Wisconsin, which pays everyone a base salary that varies by department.