Appointees shall be accorded the title of Clinical Lecturer, Assistant Clinical Professor, Associate Clinical Professor or Clinical Professor. Appointment of clinical academic staff does not imply that the appointee has the qualifications necessary for appointment to one of the regular professorial ranks. Because the professional qualifications, experience and reputation of individuals appointed as a clinical academic staff will vary considerably, there is no equivalence between clinical and regular titles. Criteria for the clinical professorial ranks must be documented and uniformly applied. The Office of the Vice President Academic and Provost is available to assist in the development of these criteria.
Appointments are usually for two, three or five year, renewable terms and normally involve no remuneration. They are made on the Academic Staff Appointment Form, which is approved by the Dean, and then forwarded to the Office of the Vice-President (Academic) & Provost.
Clinical Appointment (Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry) means a person, usually a physician or dentist, in private practice, who undertakes teaching and instruction at or for the University of Alberta often without remuneration. Persons external to the University of Alberta holding appointments under these regulations are not governed by the provisions of the Faculty Agreement, are subject to any special conditions contained in the formal letter of appointment, and are regularly evaluated in accordance with the standards established by the Faculty Evaluation Committee processes. As such they do not have the same rights and privileges of regular faculty members. Clinical academic staffs do not fall within the definition of academic staff, pursuant to Section 21.1 of the Universities Act.
Department Chair means the chief administrative officer of a Department.