Longer Service Criteria
The Longer Service Criteria are primarily intended to reward faculty for significant and sustained contributions to the teaching mission of HMS, HSDM, and their affiliated institutions. Eligible faculty are full-time or part-time clinicians who have dedicated at least 10 years as faculty members to education and have demonstrated continuing growth in their roles as teachers. Teaching is broadly defined to include didactic teaching of students, trainees and peers, clinical teaching and mentorship, and administrative teaching leadership roles. Teaching of Harvard medical, dental, and graduate students will be particularly noted. Teaching outside Harvard and its affiliates will not be considered as supporting evidence for the promotion.
There is no requirement for written scholarship. As with all promotions, consideration will be given to the sum total of the individual's achievements. The evaluation will consider significant supporting activities, including contributions in the areas of investigation, clinical expertise, education of patients and service to the community, and administration and institutional service.
Promotion by Longer Service Criteria is only to the rank of Assistant Professor. Promotion by these criteria does not preclude promotion to Associate Professor, but evaluation for subsequent promotions would require scholarship and would be based on the criteria for Associate Professor described elsewhere in this document.
Longer Service Metrics
| 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) |
Level of activity (noting lectures and courses taught) and measures of quality (e.g., participant or peer evaluation); specifically note HMS/HSDM courses for medical, dental, and graduate students May note if individual has devised innovative methods in classroom teaching and/or taught or lectured on issues related to education |
| Clinical teaching and mentorship (e.g., teaching in the clinic or hospital including bedside teaching, teaching in the operating room, preceptor in clinic) | Level of activity Quality of teaching as measured by evaluations by students, residents, fellows |
Administrative teaching leadership role (e.g., residency or fellowship director, course or seminar director) |
Quality as measured by evaluations and success of courses/programs for which the candidate was a leader |
| Recognition | Examples of Metrics |
| May have evidence of contributions
in education such as:
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