Faculty Appointments & Promotions

Tufts School of Medicine uses Interfolio to collect, review, and process faculty appointment and promotion requests. All faculty appointment or promotion requests must be formally initiated in Interfolio by your department chief or chair. To be eligible for a faculty appointment, you must meet the minimum teaching requirement of at least 50 hours per year. Tufts recognizes formal teaching as well as mentoring, advising, and supervision of any Tufts learners.

To apply for a faculty appointment at the School of Medicine, please start the process by speaking with your department chief/chair to discuss the appropriate rank for your appointment and establish if you meet the minimum eligibility requirements.

All faculty appointment requests require an up to date academic curriculum vitae (CV). The CV is an integral part of your appointment dossier. It is used (along with other materials) to evaluate your readiness for appointment or promotion, thus, it is important that your CV is accurate and contains evidence of your accomplishments and contributions to academic medicine. 

The following forms and templates are available to assist you while compiling your materials for appointment or promotion.

CLINICAL DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENT OR PROMOTION

For appointments and promotions within one of the twenty-one CLINICAL departments, please use the resources below.

Criteria for Appointment and Promotion

• Revised Clinical Faculty Appointment and Promotion Policy
  • Terms and Renewal
• Areas of Evaluation
• Examples of Achievement Chart

Please also feel free to review the Tufts SOM Guide for Clinical Faculty Candidates, which includes:

• Information on the proposal and review process
• Details about the requirements by rank
• Links to useful forms and templates
• Rank based checklists for faculty compiling their materials

Appointment Forms and Templates

• All appointments require an academic CV
  • Tufts CV Format [MS Word download] - recommended but not required
  • Academic CV Guidelines - if using a non Tufts format, please see these guidelines to ensure all necessary categories are included to avoid any delays in your processing
• All professorial level appointments (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor) require an Impact Statement
  • Tufts Impact Statement - a personal narrative of your most significant accomplishments to help guide the review of your appointment or promotion proposal
• Appointments or promotions at the Associate Professor or Professor ranks require some additional materials:
  • Referee Tracking Sheet - a list of colleagues your department can solicit referee letters from
  • Senior Referee Letter Guidance -  a guide for understanding how many referees you need to identify for your department to solicit reference letters from; it includes what types of referees you can choose and how many of each type you need

BASIC SCIENCE DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENT, PROMOTION OR TENURE

For appointments and promotions within one of the five BASIC SCIENCE departments, please use the resources below.

Criteria for Appointment and Promotion

The links below are for sections of the School of Medicine Handbook that present overviews of the basic science academic tracks, ranks and titles, and offers guidelines and criteria for such appointments and promotions.

• Basic Science Faculty Appointment, Promotion, Tenure and Separation
  • Basic Science Lateral Hires Supplement

Appointment Forms and Templates

• All appointments require an academic CV
  • Tufts CV Format [MS Word download] 
• Appointments or promotions at the Associate Professor or Professor ranks require some additional materials:
  • Teaching Portfolio - a complete account of your contributions to teaching

  • Referee Tracking Sheet - a list of colleagues your department can solicit referee letters from

     

This section is intended primarily for clinical department administrators who are involved in the compilation and submission process for faculty appointments and promotions through Interfolio.

General Process Information

All faculty appointment requests must be submitted via Interfolio for processing. The Office of Faculty Affairs no longer accepts email submissions. If you have not yet been training on Interfolio, please reach out to Phoebe Wood to set up a training session.

Additionally, if you are new administrator and need to be oriented to the faculty appointment process at Tufts SOM, please reach out to our office to set up an orientation session (Phoebe Wood).

Forms and Templates

For new faculty appointments, faculty promotions, and appointment modifications, you can find the current forms, templates and resources here: Resources for Administrators

As a reminder, faculty appointments are coterminous with the faculty member's employment at a Tufts affiliated institution and their active teaching role within the Medical School. Faculty that are no longer engaging in academic activities for the Medical School should have their faculty appointments reviewed and possibly deactivated. To initiate a faculty appointment deactivation, complete this online Deactivation Form.

Criteria for Appointment and Promotion

The School of Medicine is committed to fostering the development of dedicated clinicians, scientists, public health professionals, and educators who will have a sustained positive impact on the health of individuals, communities, and the world. To accomplish this, the School of Medicine depends on the committed participation of excellent faculty in a broad range of disciplines.

Current criteria for appointment or promotion in the clinical departments can be found below (also available in the Tufts SOM Faculty Handbook). We recommend you use the links provided on this page instead of downloading and saving the documents as they may be amended from time to time.

• Revised Clinical Faculty Appointment and Promotion Policy
  • Terms and Renewal
• Areas of Evaluation
• Examples of Achievement Chart