The Department of Medicine has defined career paths to help ensure equity between Faculty members and manage expectations at the time of recruitment, appointment, annual review and re-appointment. The DOM career paths set ranges/ballasts upon which Faculty members and leaders can expect/gauge time allotment in the domains of clinical care, teaching, research and administration. |
Based on a minimum 40hour work week with an upper reasonable limit of 60 hours per week (i.e. if a Faculty member is working more than 60 hrs per week a re-assessment of roles/responsibilities should be discussed).
NB that percentage ranges are provided to allow some flexibility in time allotment within a career path category (e.g. clinician teacher X may devote 70% of their time to clinical work, 15% of their time to teaching 15% of their time to administrative responsibilities and clinician teacher Y may devote 50% of their time to clinical work, 25% of their time to teaching 25% of their time to administrative responsibilities- both aligning with a clinician teacher role career path definition). It is understood for individual faculty member the distribution will add up to 100%.
CLINICIAN-TEACHER
General Description
- Members with major clinical responsibilities whose main academic contribution is teaching
Time Distribution
- 50-70% clinical (at a McGill affiliate)
- 15-25% teaching
- 5-25% research, administration
CLINICIAN-EDUCATOR
General Description
- Members with major commitment to teaching, educational administration, and/or scholarly activity in medical education
Time Distribution
- 30-40% clinical (at a McGill affiliate)
- 15-25% teaching
- 30-50% education innovation or research, teaching program development or education administration
CLINICIAN-INVESTIGATOR
General Description
- Members whose major academic activity is to direct a research program, but time commitment to research is less than 50%.
Time Distribution
- 30-50% clinical (at a McGill affiliate);
- 15-25% teaching
- 25-50% research
- 5-10% administration
CLINICIAN-SCIENTIST
General Description
- Members whose major activity is research (regardless of the type of research).
Time Distribution
- 50-80% research
- 5-25% teaching
- 20-40% clinical (at McGill Affiliate)
- 5-10% administration
CLINICIAN OR SCIENTIST - ADMINISTRATOR
General Description
- Members with major administrative responsibilities that occupy at least half of their time.
Time Distribution
- 50% or more administration
- Balance in teaching, research, clinical
SCIENTIST
General Description
- PhD and other non-clinician members whose major activity is research (e.g. non-practicing MD).
Time Distribution
- 80-90% research
- 10-15% teaching
- 5-10% administration