Office of Faculty Affairs
The Office of Faculty Affairs is responsible for issues relating to the COM faculty including recruitment, orientation, faculty development, the development and interpretation of policies and procedures for promotion and tenure, supporting the work of the COM Academic Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee (CAPT), grievance and appeal procedures, annual faculty performance evaluation, annual reappointment letters, and faculty retention.
To the right are links to College of Medicine By-Laws and the UTHSC Faculty Handbook. These documents give the policies of COM and UTHSC under which all of COM works.
For a better understanding of COM promotion and tenure, look at Insider’s Guide to Promotion in the UTHSC College of Medicine. It gives an overview, FAQs, and describes the "metrics" in detail.
To the left are links to a host of forms needed by departmental Business Managers and Chairs in order to recruit, appoint, promote, and evaluate faculty.
Call us if you have questions. If we don't know the answer, we'll know who to ask.
- Dr. Alicia Diaz-Thomas, Associate Dean, Office of Faculty Affairs: 901.297.5376
- Ms. Donna Wilkinson, Coordinator, Office of Faculty Affairs: 901.448.5313
All documents below are formatted in MS Word unless otherwise noted.
- New Faculty Recruitment Process
- Taleo Search Process
- Advertisement Requirements
- Advertising Websites
- Background Check Form
- Credential Evaluation Reports of Foreign Degrees
- Deans Approval to Recruit
- Documentation of and Recognition of Faculty Degrees Policy
- Human Resources Forms
- Offer Letters
- Office of Equity and Diversity Materials
- Sample Format for Preparation of Curriculum Vitae
- Taleo
All documents below are formatted in MS Word unless otherwise noted.
- New Faculty Process and Required Documents
- Background Check Forms
- Certification of Effective Communication in English
- FAA
- FAA for Affiliated Appointments
- Faculty Appointment Checklist
- Faculty Appointment Checklist Details
- Affiliate & Volunteers Descriptions
- Human Resources Forms
- Initial Hire Rehire Form
- Personal Data Form
- TN Licensure Verification
- Verification of Fellowship or Post-Doc
- Visiting Scholars
Board Specialty Websites
- Addiction Medicine
- Anesthesiology
- Emergency Medicine
- Family Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Neurosurgery
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Otolaryngology
- Pediatrics
- Physician Assistant
- Plastic Surgery
- Preventive Medicine
- Psychiatry & Neurology
- Radiology
- Surgery
- All Others: American Board of Medical Specialties
Office of Faculty Affairs Letter Templates
All of the documents below are formatted in MS Word.
All documents below are formatted in MS Word unless otherwise noted.
- Digital Measures
- Improvement Plan Form 9
- Improvement Plan Instructions
- Certification of Annual Performance Review 4
- Chair's Checklist
- Request for Non-Reappointment – Memphis
- Request for Non-Reappointment – Chattanooga
- Teaching Effort Calculator
Interim Probationary Review of Tenure-Track Faculty
Office of Faculty Affairs Letter Templates
All of the documents below are formatted in MS Word
- P&T Required Documents with Descriptions
- Letter of Solicitation Template
- Peer Review of Teaching
- Mandatory Tenure Review Faculty Listing
- Promotion and/or Tenure Checklist (Form 5)
- UTHSC Promotion and Tenure Criteria
- Promotion Metric Instructions
- Promotion Metric Short Version with Auto-calculate
- Schedule for Promotion & Tenure Process
- Letter of Evaluation Summary Sheet
- Template for Department Promotion and Tenure Letter to Chair
- Early Tenure Checklist
- Early Promotion Checklist
- COM Guide for Promotion & Tenure
- Peer Review of Teaching
- Mandatory Tenure Review Faculty Listing
- UTHSC Promotion and Tenure Criteria
- Promotion and Tenure Workshop for Faculty (Video)
- Promotion & Tenure Workshop for Faculty (Presentation)
- Sample Format for Preparation of Curriculum Vitae
- Schedule for Promotion & Tenure Process
- Early Tenure Checklist
- Early Promotion Checklist
- COM Guide for Promotion & Tenure