Procedures for Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure

Faculty Designations

Academic Medical Educator
Tenure-eligible Faculty Designation
University Title Series: Special or Regular

An Academic Medical Educator is a person who has made a full-time commitment to the University of Kentucky and whose primary area of emphasis of scholarly and service activity is the education of medical, graduate, and undergraduate students, including residents and fellows. These faculty members will have a terminal degree, usually an M.D./D.O. or Ph.D., appropriate to the appointment. An Academic Medical Educator usually will be a member of a Clinical Department but may be a member of a Basic Science Department.

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

Academic Medical Educators are expected to produce scholarly activity throughout their academic careers. Academic Medical Educators 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 Medical Educator no longer has such funding or a 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 College of Medicine faculty role designation and job description designation should change. Reassignment of title series also may be appropriate.

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