Procedures for Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure

Faculty Designations

Academic Clinician/Scientist
Tenure-eligible Designation
University Title Series: Special or Regular

An Academic Clinician/Scientist is a person who has made a full-time commitment to the University of Kentucky; whose primary service activity involves, or interfaces with, patient care; and whose primary area of scholarly activity involves human subjects or issues directly related to patient care (health policy, health care delivery, or both). Academic Clinician/Scientists usually will have an M.D./D.O. degree, but may have a Ph.D. or other terminal degree appropriate to the appointment. Most Academic Clinicians/Scientists will be in Clinical Departments, but an Academic Clinician/Scientist could be in a Basic Science Department.

The Academic Clinician/Scientist faculty designation is tenure-eligible and will be coupled with assignment to either the University's Special Title Series or the Regular Title Series. Most Academic Clinician/Scientists will be in the Special Title Series, but an Academic Clinician/Scientist may be appointed in the University's Regular Title Series. Appointment into either the Special or Regular Title Series is associated with the expectation of the production of scholarly activity.

Academic Clinician/Scientists are expected to be productive in scholarship throughout their academic careers. Academic Clinician/Scientists for whom significant amounts of time are allocated for research are expected to be productive in research throughout their academic careers; for senior faculty members it is expected that this productivity will be accompanied by external funding to support their research programs. In the event that a senior Academic Clinician/Scientist no longer has such funding or the reasonable expectation of such funding in the near future, this person's activities should be appropriately realigned with the talents and interests of the faculty member and the needs of the department and the institution. This realignment typically will include increased activities in other areas. If appropriate, the faculty member's designation should change. Reassignment of title series also may be appropriate.

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