• 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

• 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 full time academic pre-select faculty appointment:

• Updated CV in Brown format
• 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  (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
• 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 Steve Rasmussen, MD, Chair.
• Updated CV in Brown format
• 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 Steve Rasmussen, MD, Chair.
• Updated CV in Brown format
• 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. (https://cme-learning.brown.edu/EFDOnDemand#group-tabs-node-course-default4)
• 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
• Service Chief letter of nomination
• Copies of teaching evaluations
• Documentation of one hour of DEI/AR-related training (policy page here)