Associate Professor, Teaching and Educational Leadership
This area of excellence is appropriate for candidates who spend a high proportion of their time on educational activities and who view education as their primary academic focus. Evaluations will be for teaching contributions at Harvard and its affiliates or, for initial faculty appointments at HMS/HSDM, at the institution where a candidate for appointment previously held a faculty position. Teaching of HMS/HSDM medical, dental, and graduate students will be particularly noted.
Educational activities are broadly defined as including: didactic teaching of students, residents, clinical fellows, research fellows and peers; research training and mentorship; clinical teaching and mentorship; and, administrative teaching leadership roles. The candidate will be evaluated on both the quantity and quality of their teaching activities, recognition for their roles as educators, and on their scholarship. The candidate must demonstrate scholarship, which may include: publication of original research, reviews, and chapters; educational material in print or other media such as syllabi, curricula, web-based training modules and courses; and/or, educational methods, policy statements, and assessment tools developed.
Teaching and Educational Leadership Metrics
Summary
Strong regional, and most often national, reputation as a leader in education; must have developed innovative teaching methods, curricula, educational policy or assessment tools or have performed influential research related to education; expertise must be demonstrated through influential scholarship.
In addition to distinguished service as an Assistant Professor:
| Teaching may take the form of: | Examples of Metrics |
|---|---|
| Didactic teaching of students, trainees and peers (e.g., lectures, continuing medical education courses, grand rounds, professional development programs, seminars, tutorials) | Innovation in classroom teaching methods
or novel application of existing teaching methods with adoption regionally
and, in some cases, nationally
Teaching/lecturing regionally and, most often, nationally about issues related to education |
| Research training and mentorship (e.g., mentor for medical student, graduate student, resident, clinical or postdoctoral research fellow or junior faculty projects; service as graduate student thesis advisor or committee member) | Number and stature of trainees upon
whom the candidate had a major influence; stature may be assessed by
trainee's academic rank, publications, funding and awards
Publications with trainees Feedback from trainees, if available |
| Clinical teaching and mentorship (e.g., teaching in the clinic or hospital including bedside teaching, teaching in the operating room, preceptor in clinic) | Regional and, in many cases, national
leadership role related to education in a professional society
Evaluation and success of courses for which the candidate was a leader |
| Administrative teaching leadership role (e.g., residency or fellowship director, course or seminar director) | Evaluations and success of course(s)
or program(s) for which candidate was the leader
Participant enrollment in non-required courses for which the candidate was the leader Success of programs developed or innovations to existing programs introduced by the candidate. Measures of success may include increased attraction of highly competitive candidates, enhancement of diversity by increasing the representation of women and minorities |
| Recognition | Examples of Metrics |
| Invitations to speak regionally, and
most often nationally, about education
Leadership role in regional, and most often national, courses related to education Senior local leadership role in education Service on regional, and most often national, committees developing guidelines and policies for education/training programs Service on regional, and most often national, committees evaluating education programs or grant proposals related to education Funding to conduct educational research or to develop educational materials, methods, assessment tools or programs Funding to support mid-career mentoring about education by the candidate Service on editorial boards of educational journals Awards for teaching or mentoring from sources other than the candidate's department/institution | |
| Scholarship | |
| Publication of first and senior author
chapters, reviews, textbooks related to education that are recognized
as authoritative and are widely cited
Development of educational material in print or other media with regional, and in some cases national, adoption; may include syllabi, curricula, web-based training modules or courses, and/or technologies (e.g., simulation); may also include development of educational methods, policy statements, and/or assessment tools Publication of first and senior author influential original research related to educational methods, assessment and/or policy |
