Roles, Responsibilities, and Commitments
The HMS Working Group on Clinical Faculty Roles, Responsibilities, and Commitments was convened and charged by Dean Daley in April 2025 to provide leadership in advising on opportunities to improve HMS clinical faculty experience and in identifying institutional actions that can better support HMS clinical faculty in advancing their careers in academic medicine.
Members of the working group include academic leaders from across the HMS affiliate hospitals as well as representation from the Harvard University Provost’s office.
This HMS Working Group on Clinical Faculty has identified and focused on two priorities:
- Modernization of the “geographic full-time policy” to expand eligibility for full-time ladder faculty appointments
- The Working Group has developed “academic hubs/academic services” model that is proposed to replace geographic location at the main campus AMC with indicators of academic milieu, faculty support, and academic engagement as a proxy for academic full-time.
- HMS is currently reviewing proposals for demonstration projects to evaluate this academic hubs/academic services model in anticipation that it can be refined and scaled up, if successful.
- Please watch this page for further developments.
- Modernization of the “geographic full-time policy” to expand eligibility for full-time ladder faculty appointments
- The Working Group has developed “academic hubs/academic services” model that is proposed to replace geographic location at the main campus AMC with indicators of academic milieu, faculty support, and academic engagement as a proxy for academic full-time.
- HMS is currently reviewing proposals for demonstration projects to evaluate this academic hubs/academic services model in anticipation that it can be refined and scaled up, if successful.
- Please watch this page for further developments.
Modernization of the “geographic full-time policy” to expand eligibility for full-time ladder faculty appointments
- The Working Group has developed “academic hubs/academic services” model that is proposed to replace geographic location at the main campus AMC with indicators of academic milieu, faculty support, and academic engagement as a proxy for academic full-time.
- HMS is currently reviewing proposals for demonstration projects to evaluate this academic hubs/academic services model in anticipation that it can be refined and scaled up, if successful.
Please watch this page for further developments.
Expansion of the pathways for clinical faculty recognition and career advancement through exploration and conceptual development of a clinician-educator track
- This work aims to expand opportunities for clinical faculty to advance their careers in academic medicine through a promotion track that recognizes excellence across the full range of faculty contributions to the academic mission.
- The Working Group has sought to articulate guiding principles, has examined clinical promotion tracks in use at our peer institutions, and has weighed the pros and cons of several models in its development of a proposed architecture of a potential track.
- The HMS Working Group on Clinical Faculty is currently co-hosting in-person listening sessions with HMS leadership at five HMS affiliate teaching hospitals to share this model with interested clinical faculty and seek their feedback and further ideas.
- Additional updates about this potential clinician-educator track will be posted on: https://facultyhandbook.hms.harvard.edu/exploration-of-a-clinician-educ…