Clinical Faculty Appointment/Tenure Track Lines

Most clinicians are salaried as a faculty member and a physician surgeon. Some points to remember when structuring the appointment are:

• To be in the tenure track, assistant professors must have their faculty appointment line at greater than 50%. However, newly hired associate professors and professors can be tenured at any amount above 0%.
• Tenure track percent and dollars should not be decreased without written agreement from the faculty member.
• Assistant professor faculty in the Clinical Discipline Track (who by definition are not tenure track) are on N tenure if the faculty appointment line is less than or equal to 50% and W tenure (with a fully executed W agreement required) if greater than 50%.
• Associate professors and professors in the Clinical Discipline Track must have a W contract on file if any of their contractual salary is attributed to the faculty rank line.
• To pay as a physician surgeon, an individual must have a faculty line. The norm for those who are salaried is to have some percent and dollars attributed to the faculty rank.