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Standardized Curriculum Vitae for Faculty Actions  (Pdf Here)

The curriculum vitae accompanying proposals for appointment to the faculty, promotion, or the award of tenure is required to meet the following criteria and conform to the following format:

- Information current within one month of submission
- Submitted as electronic document to fao@northwestern.edu when requested, unless specified otherwise (document should be submitted by DEPARTMENT, not candidate)
- Material in each section listed in chronological order (earliest info first, to most recent)
- Material should not be duplicated across sections
- Indicate date of preparation (month/year) in top right corner of first page


Contents of Curriculum Vitae:

1. PERSONAL INFORMATION (Full name with professional degrees, work/home addresses, telephone/FAX numbers, e-mail address, citizenship, date/birth place) DO NOT INCLUDE SS#.


2. EDUCATION

Date degree awarded  Institution   Degree  Discipline


3. GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION (if applicable)

Dates   Institution   Specialty


4. POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH TRAINING (if applicable):

Dates   Institution  Title  Field of Research


5. BOARD CERTIFICATION and MEDICAL LICENSURE


6. MILITARY SERVICE (if applicable)

Dates


7. FACULTY APPOINTMENTS (indicate tenure status, if applicable)

Dates  Title  Institution   Department


8. HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS (if applicable)

Dates  Title  Hospital


9. ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS (if applicable)

Dates  Title  Institution


10. COMMITTEE SERVICE (school and/or hospital)

Dates  Name of Committee (indicate leadership positions, if applicable)
11. AWARDS, HONORS, DISTINCTIONS

Date   Name of award
(May also include named lectureships, visiting professorships)


12. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS (indicate leadership positions, if applicable)


13. PROFESSIONAL and SCIENTIFIC SERVICE (Leadership positions, editorial service, review bodies, professional public service)


14. TEACHING (Distinguish among kinds of experience, e.g. course developer, course director, or course participant; lecturer, conference leader, attending physician, surgeon, etc. Also include teaching of post-doctoral students, doctoral students and thesis supervision in a research setting, other graduate student teaching, teaching of residents in a clinical setting, teaching in continuing education courses, advising responsibilities and leadership roles).


15. RESEARCH GRANTS/CONTRACTS (for past five years provide principal investigator status, funding agency, title and type of award, period of support, total direct costs)


16. SCHOLARLY BIBLIOGRAPHY (must be organized by categories below, with items in each section numbered separately). Failure to distinguish the sections (including case reports with original, peer-reviewed articles, for example) will result in returning the promotion application to the department.
a. Original, peer-reviewed research articles
b. Editorials, Reviews, Chapters, Books, Commentaries (indicate whether editorials and reviews are peer-reviewed, invited or both)
c. Case reports, Technical notes, Letters (designate letters)
d. Proceedings and non-refereed papers
e. Software, world wide web-based publications, exhibits, audiovisual or other teaching material
f. Patents
g. Abstracts (optional) – only for past two years


17. PRESENTATIONS (past five years only)


Instructions for assembling SCHOLARLY BIBLIOGRAPHY section:
- Do not include papers submitted or in preparation unless they have been accepted for publication, in which case list the journal in which they will appear and indicate "in press".
- Number references consecutively in the order in which they were published.
- Separate publications by category, in the order shown below. Number each section separately.
- For each reference, provide all authors (in order listed in the reference itself), title, journal, inclusive pages, and year of publication.
- Failure to distinguish the sections (including case reports with original, peer-reviewed articles, for example) will result in returning the promotion application to the department.