Program Overview

UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway

The UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway is a scheme designed to recognize clinicians who make significant contributions to the UCD School of Medicine through teaching, mentoring, research programs, professional appointments, and School development activities.

Objectives

The objectives of the UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway are to:

• Recognize those clinicians engaged in a career in medicine within the main teaching hospitals, affiliated hospitals, and other teaching environments.
• Encourage increased participation in all academic activities, including translational research, undergraduate and graduate education.
• Build a sense of connection with the School and the University.
• Clearly demonstrate that academic advancement is determined as a result of rigorous peer review and is based on sustained performance, not time served.
• Respond to the strategic needs of the School.
• Support the creation of an integrated academic health center where world-class patient care is achieved by purposefully linking clinical care with teaching and research.

Background and Eligibility

The UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway is designed to recognize those clinicians engaged in a career in medicine within the main teaching hospitals, affiliated hospitals, and other teaching environments, and who make a significant contribution to the UCD School of Medicine.

• Adjunct appointees to the UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway will be ordinarily employed within the healthcare system or will have retired from such employment.
• As part of its commitment to the Dublin Academic Medical Centre initiative, all consultants of St. Vincent's Healthcare Group and the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital will receive a clinical pathway appointment on application to the university.

Application Procedures

• New appointments under the UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway can be made at any time during the academic year.
• Applications for promotion within the scheme can only be made during formal calls, which take place typically once per annum.
• The School will advertise when the Pathway is open for promotion applications on this page and typically alerts existing members by email.
• Application forms are available and should be submitted by email.
• Detailed curricula vitae, testimonies, or personal references will not be considered.

Evaluation of Applications

• Applications to the UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway scheme are considered by an academic review panel chaired by a nominee of the Head of School.
• The Review Panel comprises senior academics from within the School, from within the existing adjunct clinical faculty, from other UCD Schools, and from other Irish Medical Schools.
• All applications are individually considered by each member of the Review Panel against the following assessment parameters:
  • Research & Scholarship
  • Teaching
  • Contribution to UCD
  • Contribution to Teaching Hospital / Clinical Training Network
  • Contribution to Irish Healthcare
  • National Leadership & International Reputation
  • Other Relevant Information

Notification of Outcome

• Once submitted, the School will acknowledge all applications by return email.
• The decision of the University Committee for Academic Appointments, Tenure & Promotion will be communicated by letter and email.

Academic Progression

• The UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway was designed to allow academic progression consistent with normal University advancement procedures.
• Application for promotion of existing appointees can be made during any of the formal calls for appointments or promotion.
• Applicants seeking promotion will need to be able to demonstrate incremental performance.
• The Review Panel would normally expect a minimum of three years between appointment and application for promotion within the UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway.

Terms and Conditions of Appointment

• Terms and conditions of appointment to the UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway are available.
• Adjunct staff are granted access to a range of software and IT tools, with additional software available by specific approval of the Head of School or Academic Section Leader.