Johns Hopkins Faculty Gold Book

The Committee on the Clinician Educator together with the Medical School Council and specifically Dr. Argye Hillis has worked for the last year to update the Gold Book to explicitly include scholarship in education as a criteria for promotion. In addition, contract periods beyond 6 years at Assistant and Associate Professor are now not unusual but are options for faculty to advance their scholarship for promotion. These changes do not represent radical changes for promotion or for contract periods but align the Gold Book with the changes that have occurred in the School of Medicine over the last several years. These Gold Book changes provide the faculty with more flexibility to achieve their professional goals. 

Janice E. Clements, Ph.D.
Mary Wallace Stanton Professor of Faculty Affairs
Vice Dean for Faculty
Johns Hopkins Medicine

I.      General Considerations 

II.     Appointments & Promotions of Full-Time Faculty

III.    Faculty Appointments

IV.    Academic Advancement for Full-Time Faculty

V.     Contracts and Contract Periods

VI.    Salary of Faculty Members

VII.   Equal Opportunity

VIII. Grievances

IX.    Leaves of Absence

X.      Review and Amendment of this Policy