AIM Center Faculty Mission and Goals
The AIM Center's dedicated funding enables support of faculty members’ participation in professional development activities and in teaching and precepting learners (e.g., medical students, residents, and other healthcare profession trainees). The AIM Center is able to provide its faculty members with dedicated time to engage in applied research and to cover faculty time and resources needed to excel at teaching and precepting.
Faculty Titles Within the AIM Center
Supported Faculty
This is the entry-level faculty position and title within the AIM Center. Appointment to this position provides for protected time for academic activities and access to all appropriate AIM Center resources.
Rollins Distinguished Clinician
This position is a promotion within the AIM Center based on level of involvement, time at Emory, and academic progress and success. Appointment to this position will affect compensation of AIM-supported non-clinical effort. Nomination is by the Director of the AIM Center, but requires action by the Chairman, Dean, and Provost as per Emory University School of Medicine Process for Distinguished Appointments.
Rollins Professor
This is the highest position and title within the AIM Center and a distinctly important University position as well. It is an exclusive position available to some, but not all, based upon success, time at Emory, and merit, but limited by availability. It requires a rank of Associate Professor or Professor.
AIM Center Faculty Appointments: Eligibility
Eligibility Requirements
School of Medicine and AIM Center Basic Requirements
In accordance with SOM requirements, the AIM Center expects candidates for appointment or promotion to show academic excellence and to participate in all three missions: scholarship, teaching, and professional service: All faculty members must have received their terminal professional degree, and those who provide clinical services must obtain and maintain medical staff privileges and managed care credentialing to perform clinical duties at the healthcare facilities in which they are assigned to practice.
AIM Center Supported Faculty: Requirements for Eligibility
- Current Board certification in Internal Medicine
- Emory School of Medicine Faculty in good standing.
- Primary practice location in The Emory Clinic -- GIM Clinics, including the Seavey Clinic, 1525 Clifton, and Midtown practices or possibly others under special situations or as the program expands.
- All Seavey Clinic faculty are automatically considered Supported Faculty.
- Appropriate (but not mandatory) to participate and excel in any or all:
- The Emory Clinic Internal Medicine Practice
- Education of Medical Students, Residents, and other learners
- Quality improvement efforts and practice innovation
- Research and scholarship