Academic Promotion for Clinicians

1. Front Matter

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2. The Academic Promotion Process: A User’s Guide

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   2. Why Is Academic Promotion So Challenging for Clinicians?

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   3. Titles, Tracks, and Terminology

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   4. What Counts for Academic Promotion?

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   5. How the System for Academic Promotion Works

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   6. The Participants in the Academic Promotion Process: Roles and Responsibilities

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3. Navigating the Academic Promotion Process

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   2. Applying for Academic Promotion: Why? When? What?

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   3. Strategies for Success: The Long Game

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   4. Strategies for Success: Preparing for the Application

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   5. Practical Approaches and Pearls to Complete a Successful Application

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   6. Outcomes, Reflection, and Next Steps

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   7. Academic Promotion for Special Groups of Faculty

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   8. The Future of Academic Promotion for Clinicians

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4. Back Matter

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This book is a practical guide to the appointment, promotion, and tenure (APT) process for clinical faculty members employed by medical schools. The number of clinical faculty members in US medical schools has increased exponentially in the last two decades. At the same time, faculty career tracks and promotion requirements have changed dramatically and medical schools have introduced multiple non-tenure career tracks. Currently, only about 25% of the approximately 150,000 members of clinical departments. 


This book provides insights and recommendations on career planning and academic promotion for clinical faculty members. It also addresses much of the “mythology” surrounding the APT process and demonstrates how academic promotion should be used as a career-building process rather than a daunting high-risk event. Topics include concepts and processes within academic promotion; navigating the academic promotion and tenure process; and managing the outcome of the APT application. Academic Promotion for Clinicians is a valuable resource for clinical medicine faculty members as they engage in and successfully handle the challenges in the APT process and thus realize their career goals.

• appointment, promotion, and tenure process
• APT
• career planning
• academic promotion
• APT application
• institutional APT policy and guidelines

“This book is well written and full of detailed advice supported by experience. Anyone planning a career in academic medicine and many of those already in the middle of their academic career will find this book an invaluable resource.” (Holly Salzman, Family Medicine, Vol 52 (1), 2020)

“The purpose is to provide guidance for clinician-educators and their advisors, and describe dilemmas inherent to academic promotions in this changing healthcare environment. … I highly recommend this book for those entrusted with granting academic promotions, for academic leaders concerned with updating promotions criteria, and, especially, for academic clinicians and their advisors trying to navigate a confusing but potentially gratifying process.” (Marjorie Greenfield, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2018)

• Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, Wichita, USA

  Anne Walling

Anne Walling, MB, ChB

Professor Emerita

Faculty Affairs and Professional Development

University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita

Wichita, KS, USA

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