VCOM Faculty Handbook

bedside, or population-based research, but can include educational research) as agreed upon with the Associate Dean for Biomedical Affairs, the AVP for Research development and the VP for Research. Biomedical faculty are expected to perform service including College committees, interviews, and other service as assigned by the Campus Dean. All Biomedical Faculty are expected to participate in scholarly activity including publication. These are the duties by which biomedical faculty are evaluated. Clinical Track Academic Faculty responsibilities include teaching, patient care service, College service, and participation in research and scholarly activity as pertained to clinical practice or education. The educational or teaching duties include, but are not limited to, the timely preparation and presentation of accurate and up to date educational materials, as well as incorporating the latest in the use of educational technology and in content delivery strategies in medical education. Clinical faculty are also required to be collaborative with other College disciplines in the creation and continual refinement of the curriculum, both the clinical curriculum and the clinical integration of the biomedical curriculum. The clinical track academic faculty have a duty to participate in research in scholarly activity, which may include clinical case reports, clinical population based-research (in hospital population, in practice populations, or in the larger community population-based research). Unless defined in the contract or designated by the Associate Dean, faculty research does not always include seeking the funding for that research; however, if clinical faculty are provided with protected time for academic preparation, and the research warrants, academic track clinical faculty are expected to perform service including college committees, interviews, and other service as assigned by the Associate Dean and Campus Dean. The majority of clinical faculty have a commitment to patient care and to teaching students in the clinical setting. Therefore, their scholarly activity may be limited to research and scholarly activity regarding patient care and medical education. All academic track clinical faculty, or those employed and whose employment includes protected time for academic preparation in addition to teaching are expected to produce scholarly activity including publication related to research in education and/or clinical practice service. These are the duties by which clinical faculty are evaluated.

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