VCOM Faculty Handbook

Research track faculty do not have membership in the VCOM Faculty Assembly, do not have representation through the VCOM Faculty Senate, and are not eligible for tenure. Adjunct Faculty Adjunct faculty are those faculty members who are fully qualified professionals who provide academic instruction to VCOM students or residents but do not hold a contract or receive a salary (full-time or part-time) from VCOM and who teach on a voluntary or incidental occasion. Adjunct faculty may also be those involved in the post-graduate training within the Osteopathic Medical Network of Excellence in Education (OMNEE) or VCOM affiliated GME programs who do not hold appointments in one of VCOM’s affiliated teaching sites.

Adjunct faculty members are responsible for the quality of their instruction as it is a part of the VCOM curriculum.

Adjunct faculty do not have membership in the VCOM Faculty Assembly, do not have representation through the VCOM Faculty Senate, are not eligible for tenure, and are not eligible for VCOM benefits.

Faculty Appointment to an Academic Rank Academic appointment is a peer-review process wherein candidates are judged against specific standards that are in alignment with the College and criteria from certain national standards. These guidelines are intended to broadly define the minimum performance levels associated with the academic ranks between Assistant Instructor and Professor. Board Certification and Medical Licensure Requirements Board Certification Requirements have changed throughout the years and so different levels of Board Certification are appropriate and are according to the year of graduation, to the area of teaching, and to the location of the teaching. o Clinical Track Faculty who teach in the clinical setting must: o have an active medical license in the state in which they practice with no sanctions; and o hold a current AOA or ABMS board certification; or o be AOA or ABMS board eligible in his/her field (board eligible implies to be eligible again to meet the requirements to sit for board certification or to be in process of meeting such requirements to be recertified). o Clinical Department Chairs, regardless of whether they teach in the clinical setting, must: o have an active medical license in the state in which they practice with no sanctions; and o have an active AOA or ABMS board certification in her/her specialty. o The Chair of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, regardless of whether they teach in the clinical setting, must: o have an active medical license in the state in which they practice with no sanctions; and o have an active board certification from the American Osteopathic Board of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (AOBNMM) or a Certificate of Special Proficiency in OMM (C-SPOMM). o When state medical licensure requires board certification, Clinical Track Faculty, who teach in the clinical setting, are expected to maintain board certification through recertification, maintenance of certification, or grandfathered permanent certification.

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