• Instructor (Research) (appointment limited to one 2-year term)
• Assistant Professor (Research) (appointment for indefinitely renewable 3-year terms)
• Associate Professor (Research)
• Professor (Research)

• Associate Professor, Teaching Scholar Track
• Professor, Teaching Scholar Track

• Associate Professor, Research Scholar Track
• Professor, Research Scholar Track

• Associate Professor, Clinician Scholar Track
• Professor, Clinician Scholar Track

• Discuss appointment with service chief. 
• Appointments can start on the 1st of any month. 
• Consult faculty ranks & tracks criteria (linked below) and DPHB-specific guidelines (attached below).
• Most pre-select academic faculty appointments must be pre-approved by the Dean's office. Please let the Manager, Academic Affairs know as soon as you are thinking of requesting a pre-select academic faculty appointment.
• Once the required materials are submitted, the appointment will be included on the agenda for the next DPHB Academic Faculty Committee meeting (four times a year, usually September, November, March and May). 
• If approved by the DPHB committee, it will be forwarded to Brown BioMed for processing and official Dean’s approval. 
• From Committee meeting to Dean’s approval usually takes a few weeks. 

Materials required for junior level academic pre-select faculty appointment:

• Updated CV in Brown format. Be sure to note your DEI work. We suggest that you mark your individual DEI work items [with an asterisk, (DEI), color, or bold] wherever they appear on your CV, as well as adding a DEI section after the Membership in Societies section and before the Publications List section on your CV. The items in that section may be duplicated elsewhere on your CV. (See DEI Commitment Criterion)
• Service Chief letter of justification (explaining how the candidate is uniquely qualified, i.e. justification for why no search took place)
• 3 letters of support (can be from Brown faculty or outside Brown)
• Job Description, with percentage of protected time for scholarly activity
• Documentation of one hour of DEI/AR-related training (policy page here)
• Academic faculty departmental hire form
• FPA with CEO signature  (listed under Searches as "Faculty Position Authorization - Clinical Departments")
• Item #8 (ONLY Item #8) of Compliance Report (listed under Searches)
• Hospital Support Letter (the Manager, Academic Affairs will request this from the hospital directly)

Must go through CMFA process (similar to promotions)

• Discuss appointment with service chief. 
• Appointments can start on the 1st of any month. 
• Once the required materials are submitted, the appointment will be included on the agenda for the next DPHB Academic  Faculty Committee meeting (four times a year,, usually September, November, March and May). 
• Once initially approved by the Committee, referee letters will be solicited. 
• Once the required 8 referee letters are received, the senior-level appointment will be included on the agenda for the next DPHB Academic Faculty Committee meeting. 
• If the referee letters are approved, the senior-level appointment dossier will be forwarded to Brown BioMed for the appropriately scheduled CMFA meeting (a slot at a CMFA meeting has been reserved in advance). 
• If CMFA approves the senior-level appointment, the appointee will be notified by the DPHB Chair. 

Materials required to begin process for preselect senior-level academic faculty appointment:

• Updated CV in Brown format. Be sure to note your DEI work. We suggest that you mark your individual DEI work items [with an asterisk, (DEI), color, or bold] wherever they appear on your CV, as well as adding a DEI section after the Membership in Societies section and before the Publications List section on your CV. The items in that section may be duplicated elsewhere on your CV. (See DEI Commitment Criterion)
• Service Chief letter of justification (explaining how the candidate is uniquely qualified, i.e. justification for why no search took place)
• 3 letters of support (can be from Brown faculty or outside Brown)
• Job Description, with percentage of protected time for scholarly activity
• Documentation of one hour of DEI/AR-related training (policy page here)
• FPA with CEO signature
• Item #8 (ONLY Item #8) of Compliance Report   
• Hospital Support Letter (this comes from Hospital CEO office)

• Clinical Instructor
• Clinical Assistant Professor
• Clinical Associate Professor
• Clinical Professor

• Instructor, Clinician Educator
• Assistant Professor, Clinician Educator
• Associate Professor, Clinician Educator
• Professor, Clinician Educator

• Interested clinician with a teaching role should discuss possible DPHB faculty appointment with service chief and/or training director. 
• Contact Holly Wilker, Manager of Academic Affairs (Holly_Wilker@brown.edu) with questions, for requirements, due dates, etc.
• For Clinical track, must have 100 hours of teaching within the Brown system per year.
• For Clinician Educator track, must have 200 hours of teaching within the Brown system per year.
• Appointments can start on the 1st of any month. 
• Clinical Instructor appointment are for two-year terms. Those appointed at Clinical Instructor will be evaluated for "promotion" to Assistant level after one year. 
• Assistant level clinical faculty appointments are for three-year terms.
• Once the required materials are submitted, the appointment will be included on the agenda for the next DPHB Clinical Faculty Committee meeting (four times a year, usually September, November, March and May). 
• If approved by the DPHB committee, it will be forwarded to Brown BioMed for processing and official Dean’s approval. 
• From Committee meeting to Dean’s approval usually takes a few weeks. 
• See Clinical Appointments Process document below for more details.

CLINICAL APPOINTMENTS PROCESS DOCUMENT

Materials required for Clinical Instructor faculty appointment:

• Letter from the candidate briefly addressing his/her current & future teaching role, # of teaching hours, and the availability of teaching evaluations. Addressed to Audrey Tyrka, MD, PhD, Chair.
• Updated CV in Brown format. Be sure to note your DEI work. We suggest that you mark your individual DEI work items [with an asterisk, (DEI), color, or bold] wherever they appear on your CV, as well as adding a DEI section after the Membership in Societies section and before the Publications List section on your CV. The items in that section may be duplicated elsewhere on your CV. (See DEI Commitment Criterion)
• Service Chief memo of nomination (service chief should ensure a teaching role exists). Service chief can also use this Google form. 
• Documentation of viewing Dr. Tracey Guthrie's talk, "Racism in Academic Psychiatry: Hiding Behind the Cloak of Benevolence" for DEI/AR-related training (policy page here)

Materials required for Assistant Professor clinical faculty, junior level promotion (or appointment, with exception):

• Letter from the candidate briefly addressing his/her current and future teaching role, # of teaching hours, and the availability of teaching evaluations. Addressed to Audrey Tyrka, MD, PhD, Chair.
• Updated CV in Brown format. Be sure to note your DEI work. We suggest that you mark your individual DEI work items [with an asterisk, (DEI), color, or bold] wherever they appear on your CV, as well as adding a DEI section after the Membership in Societies section and before the Publications List section on your CV. The items in that section may be duplicated elsewhere on your CV. (See DEI Commitment Criterion)
• Service Chief memo of nomination (service chief should ensure a teaching role exists). Service chief can also use this Google form. 
• One additional letter of support from a DPHB faculty member
• Evidence of participation in one teaching development activity (must be activity presented by DPHB or Alpert Medical School's Program in Educational Faculty Development office). Completing an on-demand pre-recorded video on a teaching development topic, available on the Brown CME site, also meets the requirement. 
• Documentation of one hour of DEI/AR-related training (policy page here) FOR APPOINTMENT ONLY
• Copies of teaching evaluations (DPHB requests that candidates have one year of documented teaching within the Brown system.)

Must go through CMFA process (similar to promotions).

• Discuss possible appointment with service chief and/or training director. 
• Once the required materials are submitted, the appointment will be included on the agenda for the next DPHB Clinical Faculty Committee meeting (four times a year, usually September, November, March and May). 
• Once initially approved by the Committee, referee letters will be solicited. 
• Once the required 5 referee letters are received, the senior-level appointment will be included on the agenda for the next DPHB Clinical Faculty Committee meeting. 
• When/if the referee letters are approved, the senior level appointment dossier will be forwarded to Brown BioMed for the appropriately scheduled CMFA meeting (a slot at a CMFA meeting has been reserved in advance). 
• The appointee will be notified of the CFMA decision by the DPHB Chair. 

Materials required to begin process for senior-level clinical faculty appointment:

• Updated CV in Brown format. Be sure to note your DEI work. We suggest that you mark your individual DEI work items [with an asterisk, (DEI), color, or bold] wherever they appear on your CV, as well as adding a DEI section after the Membership in Societies section and before the Publications List section on your CV. The items in that section may be duplicated elsewhere on your CV. (See DEI Commitment Criterion)
• Service Chief letter of nomination
• Copies of teaching evaluations
• Documentation of one hour of DEI/AR-related training (policy page here)