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The Future of Academic Promotion for Clinicians

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Academic Promotion for Clinicians

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With little current momentum for change in academic promotion, individual schools are likely to continue developing the number and type of tracks for clinicians and to seek adjustments to improve the efficiency of the system. Movements to align regular faculty assessments, faculty development, and academic promotion have the potential to reengage clinical faculty members and increase the perceived value of promotion, but criteria for promotion must be related to faculty roles and activities. Ongoing changes raise basic questions about the definition of a faculty member, eligibility for academic promotion, the definition and role of scholarship, and the use of tenure-based concepts and systems for a predominantly non-tenured and very heterogeneous faculty.

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Walling, A. (2018). The Future of Academic Promotion for Clinicians. In: Academic Promotion for Clinicians. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68975-3_12

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