PROFESSOR OF MILITARY AND
EMERGENCY MEDICINE (MEM) 

Promotion in academic rank is an honor and recognition of meaningful accomplishments and contributions. As a MEM faculty member, you are expected to support medical students, residents, and faculty by contributing to education and training, research and scholarship, leadership, and service. Promotion from Associate Professor to Professor is roughly analogous to two or three uniformed ranks. Where an Associate Professor creates a curriculum, participates in innovative scholarship, serves as a leader and role model, and has an established or emerging national reputation in their profession and specialty, a full Professor performs all of these duties and also contributes at the strategic level to education and research, is a role model and mentor to other faculty members as well as to students, and has an established or emerging international reputation in their profession and specialty.

 

Promotion from one rank to another is not granted based solely on time in each rank, but rather, on your clinical, educational, professional, and scholarly accomplishments and contributions. The progression in these levels is fully detailed in USU Instruction 1100A. Please review this guide on how to succeed in your current rank and how to prepare to advance to the next level.

See documents about faculty ranks, pathways, prefixes, and processes to learn more about the promotion process and requirements. 

Curriculum vitae

Educator’s Portfolio

  • Purpose: Provide detailed information about your contributions as an educator. 
  • Use this template to develop your portfolio.
  • To prepare for creating your portfolio, be sure to do continually do the following:
    • Here is a sample method for tracking your teaching contributions.
    • Maintain samples of your work (assessments, curriculum documents, course materials, etc.)
    • Gather feedback 
      • Student/mentee evaluations
      • Peer observations 
      • Mentor/advisor/senior faculty evaluations
      • Audience/participant feedback
  • NOTE: The Educator’s portfolio is optional for Clinician-Investigator Pathway, Research Pathway, and prefixed faculty appointments (i.e., Clinical, Research, Adjunct, Distinguished, Emeritus prefixes to academic titles).

Philosophy of Education

● Purpose: to explain your personal philosophy of teaching, learning, and assessment. These documents should be submitted as part of your Educator’s Portfolio or separately if you are not submitting an Educator’s Portfolio.

● Approximately 2 pages single-spaced in length

● Review the  Guidance for writing a philosophy of education to help prepare your statement

● The Philosophy of Education is optional for Clinician-Investigator Pathway, Research Pathway, and prefixed faculty appointments. 

Scholarly Statement

● Purpose: to explain how you approach and incorporate scholarship into your professional role. Be sure to identify the domain(s) of Scholarly to which you contribute (Discovery, Integration, Application, and/or Education); the question(s)/problems/topics you address; why you focus on these topics; how you conduct your scholarship (i.e., methods); what you have found/learned; what you are working on now and where you expect your scholarly to go next.

● 2 pages single-spaced in length

● Review the Guidance for writing a scholarly statement to prepare your statement

Representative samples of your scholarly work

● 4-5 manuscripts in PDF form

● Should be published full-length manuscripts

● Ideally, provide peer-reviewed publications on which you are first or senior author

Promotion Support

● For general questions about the faculty appointments or questions regarding appointment paperwork, process, or eligibility, please email: memfacultyinformation@usuhs.edu

● For questions regarding your personal promotion eligibility and plan or to connect with a faculty adviser, mentor, or coach, please email memfacultyinformation@usuhs.edu

 

Faculty Pathways

(Associate Professor and Professor)

Faculty pathways are “silent” (i.e., not listed in academic title) indicators of the focus of a faculty member’s role and responsibilities that are designated at the Associate Professor and Professor faculty ranks based on a discussion with the MEM Chair or their designee (e.g., Director of Faculty Development).