Per the Faculty Handbook ,“Clinical faculty track consists of faculty in the College whose work is primarily teaching in a clinical setting and as appropriate to their individual disciplines.” The Clinical faculty track is a non-tenure line. In IHS clinical Faculty operate in an interdisciplinary nature which means they might also hold roles of Chair, program coordinator, or other administrative roles which are to be clearly articulated in their materials. In IHS, the Clinical faculty track consists of faculty members who hold clinical licenses/credentials/certifications and who may practice as clinicians or supervise students in their disciplines.
In IHS Clinical Faculty should have practiced or are practicing in a healthcare field that requires a license or certification. They are primarily hired to mentor/teach students in pre-clinical and clinical disciplines and/or in clinical settings.
Clinical faculty may hold the rank of:
- Assistant Clinical Professor
- Associate Clinical Professor
- Clinical Professor
Faculty in the Clinical faculty track will normally be hired as a rank of Assistant Clinical Professor, but rank may be negotiated at the time of hire depending on qualifications and experience.
Clinical faculty must be evaluated annually by the IHS Chair, the CHSP Dean will evaluate the IHS chair as well as the faculty through the annual chair review, based on the unit’s guidelines with more extensive reviews performed in the last year of multi- year contracts. Extensive reviews will be completed by the unit’s PC with input from the Chair, and then sent on to the Dean for action of renewal or non- renewal.
Clinical faculty members may be employed on the basis of full-time or part-time appointments.
Clinical faculty members may negotiate a shift from a full-time to a part-time appointment, or from a part-time to a full-time appointment without loss of rank.
Clinical faculty members may decrease areas of their workload to assume roles of IHS chair, coordinator, or other leadership positions.
Percentage distribution of teaching, clinical work, and service responsibilities are negotiated with the IHS Chair, or CHSP Dean for the chair, who is seeking a workload change during their time as chair, at the time of hire in the letter of offer and annually as appropriate to meet the needs of unit or college.
Faculty holding a Clinical Track position are eligible to apply for Tenure track positions when they become available. The criteria for rank determination in the Clinical Track and the Tenure Track differ. Hence, a faculty member's rank in the Clinical Track is not necessarily transferable to the Tenure Track.