Several changes have been made in the guidelines for volunteer faculty appointments for physicians and non-physicians in the UNMC College of Medicine.
Physicians seeking a volunteer appointment must:
–Be board certified or have board eligibility per their certifying agency;
–Have their initial appointment rank be concordant with adjunct faculty, appropriate to their training; and
–Submit a current CV, documentation of an unrestricted license to practice medicine, and an executed volunteer agreement.
Non-physicians seeking a volunteer appointment must:
–Have a master’s degree or higher for an instructor or assistant professor position;
–Have a doctoral degree for an associate professor or professor position; and
–Submit a current CV, documentation of certification (if applicable), and an executed volunteer agreement.
The general guidelines for volunteer appointments require that:
–All volunteer faculty be free of any scientific, medical or ethical sanctions;
–All appointments be evaluated every three years by the department chair or designee;
–Primary appointments for physicians be made in the department of specialty training;
–Appointments in another department have a recommendation of the chair of the secondary department and approval of the dean of the College of Medicine.
Evaluation criteria for volunteer faculty require that:
–They be evaluated by the appropriate department chair or designee at a three-year interval;
–Evaluations and an updated CV need to be submitted to the dean’s office;
–The department chair or designee communicate directly with the volunteer faculty regularly and provide performance feedback on a timely basis; and
–They must participate in a minimum of 10 hours per year over a three-year period, participate a minimum of 12 hours per year in faculty and/or professional development, and they must meet other department specific criteria.