To be successful, the Medical School must have a faculty that excels in research, education, and professional service. Full-time faculty members will be evaluated for promotion, and in two of the four career tracks for tenure, by four sets of standards. These standards are designed to recognize and reward faculty performance and career growth in the four areas important to the school: research; education; clinical and community service; and professional leadership. Emphasis should be placed on the quality, while considering the quantity, of faculty scholarship, teaching, and professional accomplishment.
Faculty members, under guidance and with the assistance of their supervisors and mentors, should develop and maintain an academic dossier to guide their career development and assist in their evaluation for promotion. The dossier should document that a faculty member meets or exceeds the standards described for one of the four academic tracks. Individual faculty dossiers will vary in character but must demonstrate the achievement of excellence and scholarship appropriate for the faculty member’s career stage. Dossiers also should define a faculty member’s contributions to meeting institutional goals and objectives. Teaching should be the common denominator in all academic dossiers since the essence of a great medical school is the integration of teaching with scholarship (discovery) and/or clinical service and professional accomplishment. The standards against which faculty members on each academic track should be evaluated are presented below. These standards represent the minimum requirements to be met before a faculty member is recommended for a promotion and/or tenure decision. At the same time, they do not represent absolute standards, rather they should serve as guidelines to evaluate individual accomplishments and credentials. Research Track Investigator Track Investigator-Clinician Track Clinician-Investigator Track Clinician Track for Full-Time Faculty Members Clinician Track for Contributed Service Faculty Members
Definition of External Professional Recognition
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