Criteria for Advancement
Applied Healthcare and Public Health Science
Assistant Professor / Associate Professor / Professor
Assistant Professor
Scholarship
- Recognized expertise in a clinical or public health discipline and a developing local reputation as an expert within the discipline
- Participation in guideline/quality assurance panels and writing groups
- Participation in national societies related to clinical or public health innovation/investigation/practice
- Participation in multicenter clinical trials or public health intervention programs as a site participant rather than a leader
Educational Portfolio
- Documentation of activities in the educational portfolio with a strong teaching portfolio in the clinical or public health discipline
- Preparation and delivery of lectures, small group teaching, laboratory learning settings and journal clubs. Skills and procedures using simulations, demonstrations, and patients
- Student advising
- Workshops focused on teaching methods and learner evaluation
- Success of teaching would be based upon data from the teaching portfolio, peer observation and review, learner evaluations, and regular documented participation and application of principles of education from faculty development programs
Additional Activities
- Recognition by peers and students as a health care professional delivering quality patient care, related patient service or direct public health service interventions if applicable. Expertise within the faculty members discipline should be evident, though leadership may not be predominant.
- Academic citizenship demonstrated by service on departmental, University, local, national organization committees and/or leadership in University/national professional organizations. Education of patients and the community are also considered in this category.
Associate Professor
Scholarship
Regional or national recognition of clinical or public health expertise by virtue of:
- Honors and leadership in regional or national professional societies of the clinical or public health discipline.
- Important contributions to quality assurance programs, clinical or public health practice guideline development or policy panels.
- Development of or leading the application of clinical or public health technology that changes practice or patient outcomes.
- Membership on editorial boards of clinical or public health specialty journals.
- Authorship of book chapters, case reports or membership in clinical or public health research as a site investigator for large multicenter trials or public health intervention programs within the discipline.
- Development of guidelines/patient care or public health protocols which are used locally, regionally, or nationally.
Educational Portfolio
Continued educational activities as outlined with increased quantity of teaching. Strong peer and learner evaluations of educational efforts.
Assessment of effectiveness in teaching and advising students is based upon:
- Review of courses/lectures taught, directed, or developed; a list of students for whom the faculty member has served as academic advisor.
- Evidence of teaching excellence at the undergraduate, graduate, and/or post-doctoral levels, evaluated by the written statements and/or compiled ratings of students/learners.
- Written statements by the Head of the Department/Division, academic peers, and others familiar with the candidate's performance in teaching.
- Accumulation of above forms of evidence on teaching competence and excellence over a sustained period of time.
Additional Activities (if applicable)
Recognition by peers and students as a health care professional delivering to quality patient care or related patient service or direct public health interventions if applicable. Expertise within the faculty members discipline should be evident, though leadership may not be predominant.
Academic citizenship demonstrated by service on departmental, local, national organization committees and leadership in University/national professional organizations.
Professor
Scholarship
Sustained leadership in clinical or public health discipline with a defined and major impact on practice within the discipline.
- Publication of reviews and book chapters related to the clinical or public health discipline.
- National or international recognition as an expert in the clinical or public health discipline.
- Service as a consultant to federal agencies charged with assessing clinical treatments or public health intervention programs.
- Invited lectureships or teaching related to the discipline on a national or international level.
- Prominent role on national organizations/committees defining treatment methodologies, care guidelines, technologies or public health interventions that change practice.
Educational Portfolio
Sustained clinical or public health educational activity as described under Associate Professor.
Additional Activities (if applicable)
Recognition by peers and students as a health care professional delivering to quality patient care or related patient service or direct public health interventions if applicable. Expertise within the faculty members discipline should be evident, though leadership may not be predominant.
Academic citizenship demonstrated by service on departmental, local, national organization committees and leadership in University/national professional organizations.