Clinician Track for Contributed Service Faculty Members

Assistant Professor

• Requires competency in a clinical specialty with commitment to excellent patient care and clinical teaching in the academic medical center
• Provides service to the Medical School and/or its teaching hospitals
• Makes contributions to medical education

Associate Professor

• Usually requires at least six years in the rank of assistant professor, unless exceptional achievement is demonstrated
• Makes major contributions to the school’s clinical programs and develops clinical skills or programs that are locally or regionally recognized, or assumes a leadership role in local or regional clinical affairs and professional organizations
• Makes continued institutional contributions in professional education
• Makes service contributions to the school and/or University
• Receives external professional recognition

Professor

• Reserved for faculty members whose achievements as clinicians and/or educators have brought distinction to their practice, hospital, and the Medical School, usually requires at least five years in the rank of associate professor
• Achieves recognition as a premier practitioner with outstanding competence in clinical service and/or as a leader in the development and implementation of programs that advance the local and/or regional standard of patient care; enjoys a regional reputation in his/her clinical discipline
• Assumes a leadership role in local or regional clinical affairs and professional organizations
• Makes outstanding institutional contributions to professional education, usually acknowledged through awards and leadership positions
• Makes service contributions to the school and/or University
• Achieves substantial external professional recognition
• Note: Scholarship and publication are not essential criteria for the advancement of contributed service faculty members. When scholarly performance is demonstrated by contributed service faculty members, it should be considered additional but not required evidence of faculty achievement.
  Clinician Track for Contributed Service Faculty Members
  Assistant Professor
  Requires competency in a clinical specialty with commitment to excellent patient care and clinical teaching in the academic medical center
• Provides service to the Medical School and/or its teaching hospitals
• Makes contributions to medical education