Adjunct & Affiliate Faculty

The mission of the Medical School is to be a leader in enhancing the health of people through innovative and diverse training experiences.  Our medical students and residents learn through interaction with a variety of medical educators.  The Department of Pediatrics relies on the teaching skills of our adjunct and affiliate faculty to provide hands-on skill-building and exposure to real world medical care.

The Department of Pediatrics has over 300 active adjunct and affiliate faculty who volunteer their time to teach 115 Pediatric and Medicine/Pediatric residents and over 800 medical students.  This teaching occurs in a wide variety of clinical settings ranging from urban, suburban and rural offices to large teaching hospitals.

Teaching experiences include Essentials of Clinical Medicine (ECM) (formerly Physician and Patient III (PAP3)), a series of weekly half-day pediatric outpatient experiences where first and second-year students get their first hands-on experience working with children and their families; the Pediatric Primary Care Clerkship, where third- or fourth-year students spend four dates per week for four years with a preceptor seeing patients; and the  Pediatric Resident  Continuity Clinic, where students and residents spend a half-day each week for three to four weeks seeing patients.  Urban/rural students and resident electives allow senior residents opportunities to get more exposure to these practice settings for one month at a time.

Aside from the satisfaction of teaching receptive learners, adjunct and affiliate faculty receive numerous benefits and access to University resources.  These include a University email account, access to the extensive electronic resources of the Bio-Medical Library, which include the current issues of almost all medical and scientific journals, as well as faculty discounts on University sports tickets, gym use, and computer software and hardware.  The links from this page include criteria for adjunct faculty and affiliate faculty appointments and promotion, descriptions of all of the courses taught by them, plus WebCT presentations of University Grand Rounds.