It is required that all faculty members engage in teaching at the bedside, in clinics, and/or in the operating rooms. Faculty are also required to teach learners and/or peers for a minimum of 2 hours per year of formal teaching* as a requirement for their academic appointment. Surgeons may change between tracks over time. Based on a minimum 40-hour work week, the suggested frameworks for time distributions are flexible and presented as a guideline range within which specific percentages can be designated depending on the envisioned role and expectations of the recruited faculty member.
*formal teaching may take the form of lectures to undergraduate students, residents during academic half day within Surgical Foundations or within your discipline, surgical grand rounds or division rounds, in the graduate programs in Experimental Surgery, serving on graduate student research committee, participating in an activity at the simulation centre, development of new online educational material for students or residents, or McGill Continuous Professional Development Program
Surgeon-Teacher
General Description
- Surgeons with major clinical responsibilities who participate mainly in workplace teaching with some classroom teaching (eg lectures, small group) and informal teaching (eg role modeling, mentoring).
Time Distribution
- 70-80% clinical work
- 15-20% teaching
- 5-15% research, administration
Surgeon-Educator
General Description
- Major time commitment to teaching and education, educational administration, and related scholarly activities
- Encompasses more formal, classroom teaching (e.g. lecturing, seminars and tutorials, individual and group discussions, laboratory teaching, and clinical teaching) and informal teaching (e.g. role modelling, mentoring and graduate/postgraduate supervision, including residents/fellows and postdoctoral fellows)
- It also encompasses such areas as curriculum and course development, development of educational materials, application of information technologies for local and distance education, educational leadership and administration, faculty development, scholarship in education, research in education, and quality assurance and evaluation of educational processes and outcomes. It is expected that you will take on multiple educational leadership duties and/or projects, including but not limited to contributions to curriculum renewal; programs, initiatives or research to advance pedagogical innovation; excellence in teaching; scholarly teaching with impact at McGill and beyond; scholarship of teaching contributions and applications, include publications of innovative pedagogical techniques, etc
Time Distribution
- 30-60% clinical work
- 20-30% teaching
- 30-50% research, administration
Surgeon-Investigator
General Description
- Surgeons who direct a research program with a time commitment to research up to 50%.
- The researcher’s work should present insights, ideas, or concepts to achieve significant quantity and quality of novel information/understanding. It is expected that research advances will be communicated through the publication of peer-reviewed papers, reviews, books, and other scholarly works as senior author.
- Teaching contributions will include training and mentoring of graduate or postgraduate learners, including residents/fellows and postdoctoral fellows.
Time Distribution
- 40-70% clinical work;
- 15-25% teaching;
- 25-50% research;
- 5-10% administration
Surgeon-Scientist
General Description
- Members who direct a research program with a majority of time committed to research (>50%). May be equivalent to recipient of Chercheur boursier clinicien award.
- Research may include basic science, translational, population and patient-based research.
- The researcher’s work should present creative insights, ideas, or concepts to achieve significant quantity and quality of novel information/understanding. It is expected that research advances will be communicated through the publication of peer-reviewed papers, reviews, books, and other scholarly works. External funding commensurate with the type and area of research.
- Teaching contributions will include training and mentoring of graduate or postgraduate learners, including residents/fellows and postdoctoral fellows, specializing in the area of research.
Time Distribution
- 25-40% clinical work;
- 10-20% teaching;
- 50-75% research;
- 5-10% administration
Surgeon-Administrator
General Description
- Members with major administrative responsibilities that occupy at least half of their time.
Time Distribution
- 50% or more administration
- Balance in teaching, research, clinical work
Scientist
General Description
- Non-MD members whose major activity is research.
- Equivalent to recipient of Chercheur boursier award.
Time Distribution
- 80-90% research
- 10-15% teaching
- 5-10% administration