Revised October 2, 2017
University of Cincinnati College ofMedicine Faculty Guidelines: Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine ARPT Appendix
Clinical Criteria for Appointment, Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure
Introduction
Our department has chosen to use the College of Medicine ARPT guidelines and add this appendix I to better define clinical excellence regardless of academic track. We believe that academic medicine will need to deliver high quality neurologic clinical care from general neurology to subspecialty neurology. In order to succeed in these efforts we need to recruit, develop and promote clinicians who provide direct patient care. Excellent, hands-on clinical care is our primary reason for being physicians, the foundation of the most important lessons that we teach our residents and medical students, and an essential component of our research. This appendix to the College of Medicine ARPT guidelines serves to describe criteria by which clinicians are promoted in both the Clinical Investigator Track (Tenured) and the Clinical Service Track (Non-Tenure). Our primary clinical goal is to improve the overall quality and efficiency of care delivery in UC Health, the VA Medical Center, and Cincinnati tri-state region. Clinical productivity, fulfilling unmet care needs, increasing practice efficiency, improving and measuring quality will be specific criteria for how we assess a faculty member's clinical contributions.
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Clinical criteria for promotion to the rank of associate professor are sustained high volume, high quality, hands-on patient care; innovations and improvements in clinical practice that enhance quality, efficiency and range of services; and active collaboration to improve care delivery within our department, UC Health, the VA Medical Center and the Cincinnati region. In advancing from assistant to associate professor, we seek to encourage faculty to focus on direct patient care, innovation and collaboration. The faculty candidate must document both the quality and amount of care provided. Additional specific examples of clinical activity strengthening an application for promotion to associate professor are: 1) pioneering or providing critical support for new clinics and fellowship programs, 2) developing interdepartmental or intradepartmental care pathways, 3) creating new diagnostic or treatment services, and 4) launching new clinical trials or providing critical support for ongoing clinical trials. Note: These are examples only. All need not be met for promotion. There is some overlap with the research (e.g. clinical trials) or education (e.g. fellowships) missions.
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