CLINICAL INVESTIGATOR TRACK PARTICIPATION Full-time ACADEMIC RANK Instructor
Assistant Professor Associate Professor Professor
TENURE ELIGIBILITY
Eligible for tenure
TRACK DESCRIPTION Faculty in this track are clinical investigators/scholars and will be actively involved in basic, clinical, and/or translational research, or health care improvement science. It is estimated that faculty will devote greater than 50% of their efforts to one or more of these disciplines. Research may include basic science, translational research, clinical trials, health disparity and outcomes research, quality and safety science, and/or decision analysis research. As investigators/scholars their approach to biological, clinical and health system problems will be based on original, sustained, and (usually) hypothesis- based research. In general, these faculty members are expected to develop a research focus that engenders recognition at a national and international level. Faculty in this track will also have responsibility with regards to education and patient care. As scholars, these faculty members are involved in educating/mentoring medical students, residents, colleagues, and peers. The settings in which these teaching activities occur are not confined to the classroom, but include the operating room, ambulatory care sites, inpatient units, or other settings for those faculty who provide special service and/or administration. Faculty in this track may also be involved in community outreach and public education. Clinical investigators are recognized experts with special emphasis in particular diseases or groups of diseases, as well as broad knowledge of the pathophysiology and treatment of most disorders related to their specialty. Clinical service and/or administration and/or the provision of excellent patient care are central activities for clinical investigators. These activities provide the substrate for most research to which faculty in this track are committed. Some clinical investigators may provide special service and/or administration such as expertise in the development of educational programs that are essential to the College of Medicine. Clinical investigators are involved in the discovery, organization, interpretation, and transmission of new knowledge related to patient care, disease entities, health care delivery, health care economics, professional ethics, medical legal issues and new educational patient care methodology. It is expected that new knowledge, skills or concepts that emanate from the clinical scholarship and that are expressed in teaching activities will also be published in respected peer-reviewed clinical or educational journals.
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