Clinician Educator Track

Excellence in teaching and clinical care is an expectation of every faculty member in Pediatrics; faculty in this track should distinguish themselves as clinicians and contribute to the broad educational mission of the Department and the School. While each faculty member on this track will have achievements in the clinical and educational areas, it is recognized that for a specific individual, the emphasis may be as a clinician, or as an educator. Although promotion on this track is not mandatory, a prolonged or permanent appointment as Assistant Professor is not considered to be desirable. Our Department expects all of our faculty to strive for advancement and promotion and to demonstrate progress in their field.

Listed below are examples of the types of activities that could qualify a faculty member for promotion. These guidelines should not be considered to be an inclusive catalog or a checklist that will ensure promotion. As is the case with all the tracks, the benchmark in this track should be excellence in the various areas of endeavor.

Associate Professor

“Candidates are expected to influence the teaching and practice of medicine in a significant way”

Outstanding record of patient care

Evidence of unique skills:

• locally and regionally distinctive
• broad geographic referral base
• development of novel approaches or techniques
• Evidence of excellence in practice:
• active referral practice
• local and regional demand for services
• Primary responsibility for developing a new program that attracts patients, meets focused educational objectives, and is sustainable.

“Exemplary teachers and active contributors to the educational mission of the School”

Teaching

Local reputation as excellent teacher of students, residents, fellows, community pediatricians, or patients and families.

Evidence includes:

• annual evaluations by trainees, written evaluations after lectures
• teaching awards
• Extensive participation in extramural courses and symposia
• Participation in national symposia

“Participation in research and scholarly activities”

Scholarship

Scholarship should be:

• subjected to peer review to determine quality, impact and excellence
• presented in the public domain
• built on a platform of knowledge

Education

• Development of novel tools related to education (e.g. electronic media)
• Scholarship related to educational methodology
• Funding of area of scholarship
• Publication of chapters in highly regarded textbooks
• Publication of reviews in recognized journals
• Reviewer for medical journals
• Elected membership in medical, scientific, or educational society

Program Development

• Local program development
• Significant role in intramural course, clerkship, or residency/fellowship program
• Development of local curriculum, e.g. new electives or teaching sites for residents, third year clerkship, physicians' assistant program, course at another Yale professional school, participation in Department or School curriculum committees
• Health related community education project
• Enhancing teaching skills of faculty
• Developing tools to evaluate faculty teaching
• Criteria by which programs will be evaluated include: Clear goals which are in alignment with Departmental teaching mission, content and methods, dissemination, feasibility, sustainability, results and outcomes measures.

Research

• Publication of peer reviewed research
• Participation in or contribution to clinical trials

Leadership

• Regional or national leadership
• regional or national role in curriculum development
• service on educational or scientific committees
• Active participation in national medical societies/organizations
• Role in national specialty board

Professor

“Must be national or international leaders in their fields. Candidates must have attained the same level of achievement in their domains as candidates for professor in the other faculty tracks.”

“Sustained excellence in patient care, teaching and education”

Clinical Practice

• Recognition as master clinician, distinguishable from majority of peers, locally and regionally
• Identifiable unique area of clinical expertise:
• regionally or nationally distinctive
• sustained broad geographic referral base
• development of novel approaches, techniques, or services
• Evidence of excellence in practice:
• extensive referral practice
• regional or national demand for services
• Director of new program, or enhancement of existing program
• Establishment of services critically dependent on a specific faculty member

Teaching

Continuing record as outstanding teacher of students, residents, fellows, community pediatricians patients, or families. Evidence includes:

• annual evaluations by trainees
• written evaluations after lectures
• teaching awards
• career development of former trainees
• Participation in national or international courses, symposia, named lectureships as meeting chair, symposium organizer, or invited lecturer

Program Development

Local program development:

• director of intramural course, clerkship, or residency/fellowship program
• sustained leadership role in development of local curriculum
• National program development
• participation in symposia or conferences of national organizations as meeting chair, symposium organizer, or invited lecturer

“Scholarship that has had a national impact on clinical medicine or teaching”

Education

• Development of nationally recognized novel tools related to education
• Outstanding scholarship related to educational methodology, informatics, or clinical practice
• Grant support in area of scholarship
• Editor of textbook
• Publication of chapters in highly regarded textbooks
• Publication of reviews in recognized journals
• Member of editorial board of journal
• Elected officer of, or recipient of award from, highly regarded medical, scientific, or educational society
• Invited presentations at premier professional meetings
• Sustained excellence in dissemination of new or state of the art knowledge

Research

• Publication of peer reviewed research, or original contributions that receive national/international recognition
• Principal Investigator or leadership role in clinical trials

Leadership

National leadership:

• national role in curriculum development
• member of national specialty board
• officer/member of council of subspecialty organization
• sustained record of effective leadership in policy making or administrative activities

Note: “Appointments are made on a continuing basis without term, but do not confer tenure. Appointments are contingent upon continued productivity and the capacity to generate financial support, which are reviewed annually by the Department.”