Faculty Ranks & Tracks

Clinician-Scholar Track

Individuals who achieve excellence as clinicians, teachers, and scholars are eligible for appointment to the Clinician-Scholar Track.

Individuals who will contribute to graduate education and who hold a primary or secondary appointment in a basic science or bridge department are eligible for appointment in the Graduate School.

Associate Professor

Candidates for appointment or promotion to this rank must excel in patient care and teaching and must have an emerging national reputation for outstanding scholarship. Appointments are made for terms of up to five years. They may be renewed if clinical productivity, scholarship, and teaching expertise continue and if programmatic needs of the department and school justify renewal. There is no limit to the number of terms a faculty member may serve at this rank, but there is no entitlement to reappointment. Non-reappointment requires one year written notice.

Professor

Candidates for appointment or promotion to this rank must be national or international leaders in their fields. In addition to excellence in patient care and teaching, they must have produced outstanding, nationally or internationally recognized scholarship which has substantially advanced their field. Such appointments will be made on a continuing basis without term. Continuing appointments may be terminated for reasons of financial stringency and with written notice of not less than two years. Under such circumstances, termination shall be applied to a class of individuals holding continuing appointments (e.g., all those in one or more departments or all those with fewer than a certain number of years of service) and not to any single individual. The strength of commitment conferred by appointment to the rank of professor mandates that candidates have attained the same level of achievement in their domains as candidates for professor in the other faculty tracks.