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 be credited (on PubMed) with at least eight peer-reviewed articles, at least two of which list the faculty member as first author and at least three of which are either reports of a hypothesis based research study and/or descriptive reports 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, published in a respected medical, scientific or education journal during the faculty member’s term of appointment (including any time served as a member of the clinical faculty at another institution) with at least five of them being published during the five years immediately 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 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 be credited (on PubMed) with at least fifteen peer-reviewed articles, at least three of which list the faculty member as first author and at least five of which are either reports of a hypothesis based research study or descriptive reports 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, published in a respected medical, scientific or education journal during the faculty member’s term of appointment (including any time served as a member of the clinical faculty at another institution) with at least five of them being published within the three years immediately prior to the application for 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. Clinical faculty members who compose and otherwise prepare original manuscripts that are published as books, book chapters, non-print media, etc., will enhance their application for academic promotion; however, these forms of publication will not substitute for articles published in peer reviewed journals. Regarding faculty members holding an academic appointment in the Non-Tenure Clinical Service Track who attained the rank of Assistant Professor or above in the Department of Ophthalmology prior to approval of these Department specific guidelines but had not reached or exceeded the minimal number of peer reviewed articles suggested by these guidelines for their current rank, they will not be required to reach or exceed the suggested guidelines for published articles in peer reviewed journals to retain their current rank. Neither will those who currently hold the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in the Non-Tenure Clinical Service Track that was attained prior to implementation of these Department specific guidelines be required to reach or exceed the cumulative numbers of published articles in peer reviewed journals indicated by these guidelines for promotion to the next higher rank; however, once these Department specific guidelines have been approved, these faculty members will be required to reach or exceed their current number of peer reviewed publications (and the subcategories of these publications specified above) by the difference between the minimal numbers specified above for Assistant and Associate Professors (i.e., for requests for promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor) and for Asssociate and full Professors (i.e., for requests for promotion from Associate Professor to full Professor). Peer Recognition for Teaching, Research/Scholarly Work/Clinical Expertise The Department of Ophthalmology defines peer recognition for teaching, research/scholarly work and/or clinical expertise as various types of acknowledgement of an individual’s outstanding research, teaching excellence, and/or clinical expertise by professional colleagues of comparable academic rank and status who may be intramural (i.e., within the Department, College of Medicine and Academic Health Center) or extramural (i.e., associated with institutions outside the Department, College of Medicine and Academic Health Center). Peer recognition for research/scholarly work and/or clinical expertise takes multiple different forms, including (but not limited to) the following:
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