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Faculty Development Center reports outreach and chief-resident attendance; financial summaries show resident pay is majority of spending
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Summary
The committee heard a program update from the Faculty Development Center and summaries of the annual written reports and expenditures showing resident compensation accounted for the majority of family-practice residency grant spending in 2024.
Sharon Manson, director of the Faculty Development Center (FDC), told the committee on June 10 that the center adapted programming this year after GCAM (the center's main cohort program) did not run. The FDC offered ProTeach, a seven-week CME series credited for 21 hours of GME, and subsidized attendance at a chief resident conference; Manson said 44 family-medicine residents from Texas attended the chief-resident event.
Manson said the FDC visited nearly all residency programs in Texas since 2020 and that the center conducted 25 additional sessions for adjacent health professions. She told the committee the center continues outreach to programs that have not yet attended FDC events and that it used a combination of virtual resources, on-site visits, and discounted registration to increase participation.
THECB staff then summarized the annual written reports and the aggregated expenditure report. Ernest Hacchas said 32 programs submitted written reports that detailed program activities, expansions, and challenges; he noted eight programs reported planned expansions and three reported reductions. Hacchas said rural and public-health rotations were common, with 22 programs reporting rural or public-health rotations as required rotations or electives.
Fred Onger presented the annual expenditure summary. Onger said the operating appropriation for the program year was about $8.1 million and that total expenditures reported were roughly $8.2 million supporting about 900 residency positions. Resident compensation accounted for about 62.17% of reported expenditures; faculty compensation was roughly 21.7% and fringe benefits about 6.9%. Onger and other committee members said the reporting variability made it difficult to interpret some line items; they requested clearer, itemized justification for categories such as "support compensation," "professional liability insurance," and other administrative or supply expenditures.
Committee members repeatedly urged THECB staff to use the new grants-management system and the legislatively requested utilization reporting to increase transparency before seeking additional appropriations. Staff said they will refine reporting templates and provide outreach and training to program directors to reduce confusion and improve comparability across programs.
