Research Professor Track
This page contains policies, guidelines, and resources for research professor track faculty. For information on the differences between SMPH faculty tracks, please visit our track overview page. If you are looking for information about switching tracks, please review our track transfers page. If you face any issues with accessing box links on this page, please email ofad@med.wisc.edu
Guidelines, Templates, and Toolkits
Each panel on this page houses information, documents, and templates you may need to review or use for promotion. All of these links and more are available under the ‘Faculty’ tab on the SMPH HR intranet.
SMPH Guidelines for Appointment and Promotion of Research Professor (PDF)
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Broad guidelines and requirements for appointment or promotion of research professor faculty.
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This SMPH template is the required CV format for all tracks at SMPH UW–Madison.
Policies and Resources
Academic Staff Policies and Procedures
An updated online resource for the Academic Staff Policies and Procedures (ASPP) handbook. Be sure to also visit the homepage as well as frequently asked questions.
Explore SMPH career development opportunities available for faculty, educators, and staff.
Career and Individual Development Planning (IDP)
The Career and Individual Development Plan (IDP) is a way to explore and define training goals, professional development needs, and career objectives. A selection of templates, tips and strategies for developing IDPs is provided.
COVID-19 Contribution Matrix Addendum for CV (PDF)
Use this matrix template to record your COVID-affected activities.
COVID-19 Contributions On A Professional CV
It is important to ensure your CV accurately reflects the work you are doing around this pandemic, be it clinical, advocacy, media, research, education, etc. This matrix provides a few different suggestions per work category.
Most often, people think of traditional mentorship as the relationship or training proffered by a more experienced or knowledgeable person to someone less experienced or possibly new to a career, situation or circumstance. There are alternative models of mentoring and mentorship that can suit individual desires and needs. For more information and resources, visit our new mentoring and mentorship page.
Mentoring in academic medicine is seen as a way to alleviate any training gaps or faculty needs for career success. This SMPH mentoring guide will help to: 1) optimize mentoring within SMPH by providing a comprehensive overview of mentoring functions and structures and 2) differentiate the mentoring from the oversight function of the executive committee or their designees.