immediately preceding his/her application for promotion; and/or he/she must have received a Clinical Faculty Teacher of the Year Award from the residents during one of the three years immediately preceding his/her application for promotion. To merit promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor A faculty member who holds an academic appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Non-Tenure Clinical Service Track and desires promotion to the rank of Associate Professor in this track must have received, on average, an overall excellent evaluation from trainees, peers, and supervisors during their annual evaluation of faculty academic performance for at least two of the three years immediately preceding his/her application for promotion; and/or he/she must have received ≥ 2 Clinical Faculty Teacher of the Year Awards during his/her term of faculty appointment, at least one of which was received during the three years immediately prior to his/her application for promotion. For promotion from Associate Professor to Professor A faculty member who holds an academic appointment at the rank of Associate Professor in the Non-Tenure Clinical Service Track and desires promotion to the rank of Professor in this track must have received, on average, an overall excellent evaluation from trainees, peers, and supervisors during their annual evaluation of faculty academic performance for at least two of the three years immediately preceding his/her application for promotion; and/or he/she must have received ≥ 3 Clinical Faculty Teacher of the Year Awards during his/her term of faculty appointment, at least one of which was received during the three years immediately prior to his/her application for promotion. Research/Scholarly Work The term “research” has different meanings depending on the circumstances to which it is applied. In the clinical arena, “research” is generally defined as a planned scientific investigation that attempts to uncover new information about disease causation, diagnosis, spectrum, and/or treatment effectiveness. Alternatively, especially in non-clinical arenas, the term “research” is frequently used to refer to the process of identifying and collecting source materials that can be cited in a scholarly review of a topic. The Department of Ophthalmology regards both of these methods of inquiry as forms of research. It also acknowledges that other forms of scholarly work such as manuscript or textbook composition, preparation of clinical teaching curricula and lectures based on his/her clinical experience, preparation of teaching aids in the form of videotapes, CDs and DVDs, and scientific review and editing of manuscripts are closely linked with research and deserve consideration as surrogates for true research in decisions about requested promotions in academic rank. The principal tangible evidence of a faculty member’s research/scholarly work consists of publications/presentations based on that work and/or on his/her clinical experience; lectures, videos, CDs, DVDs and other non-print media containing teaching aids; and curricula developed for the Department’s clinical teaching programs. The Department of Ophthalmology regards publication of at least some of the output of a faculty member’s research/scholarly work in peer reviewed medical-scientific-educational journals to be a requirement for promotion in academic rank in the Non-Tenure Clinical Service Track. The following guidelines specify the number and characteristics of a faculty member’s publications in peer-reviewed journals that will be expected to merit a requested promotion in academic rank: To merit promotion from Instructor to Assistant Professor A faculty member who holds an academic appointment at the rank of Instructor in the Non- Tenure Clinical Service Track and desires promotion to the rank of Assistant Professor in this track must be credited (on PubMed) with at least three peer-reviewed articles, at least one of which lists the faculty member as first author and at least one of which is either a report of a hypothesis based research study or a descriptive report of a relatively large series [The Department of Ophthalmology regards a case series to be “large” if the number of subjects in the series is ≥ 30] of patients (i.e., is of a type other than a case report), published in a respected medical, scientific or education journal during the five years prior to application for academic promotion. Editorials, letters to the editor, articles “in preparation”, “submitted for peer review”, “undergoing revision” or “in press”, book chapters, and articles published in tabloid newsletters are not acceptable in this category. To merit promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
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