Adjunct Clinical Faculty (ACF)
Adjunct Clinical Faculty (ACF), formerly known as Voluntary Clinical Faculty (VCF) or Voluntary Clinical Educators (VCE), are community physicians who volunteer their time in teaching medical students, residents, and fellows, attending, patient admissions, research, and/or other activities that support the Department and School.
Physicians on staff at affiliated institutions, e.g., Palo Alto VA, Kaiser, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Willow Clinic, San Jose Medical Center, were previously designated as VCF. However, recent changes have moved these physicians into an unpaid Clinician/Educator (Affiliated) line. They will be designated as Affiliated Clinician/Educators, rather than ACF, and will follow the appointment, reappointment and promotion process of Clinician/Educators (Affiliated).
The Department of Medicine has reconstituted a Departmental Appointments, Reappointments and Promotions Committee (A&P) to review criteria, qualifications, and all appointments of all ACF. You can download the most recent departmental guidelines for ACF documentation requirements, as well as a sample activity report, below. You will notice that the checklists below are specific to our department, and ask for more documentation than what the Dean's office requires; these are requirements based on the Departmental A&P Committee's needs.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
- ACF information in SOM Handbook
- DOM *draft* "What's the Right Line" Flow Chart for ACF, C/E, or C/E(A)
- DOM Documentation Requirements for Appointments, Reappointments, and Promotions
- SOM ACF Review Process (note: SOM's form is out of date on the Web; it should include Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor rank)
- SOM "Function Roles" Graph of Faculty Lines
- DOM ACF Cover Memo Guidelines from Dr. Lafayette
FORMS for ACF:
- DOM ACF Activity Report Form Cover Letter 2006
- DOM ACF Activity Report Form 2006 with definitions
- DOM ACF Activity Report Form Cover Letter 2005
- DOM ACF Activity Report Form 2005 with definitions
- DOM ACF Activity Report Form Cover Letter 2004
- DOM ACF Activity Report Form 2004
- SOM "Green Form" (Must be printed on green paper, please do not double-side)
- SOM "Yellow Form" - Streamlined Appointment and Reappointment of Adjunct Clinical Instructors - one year only (checklist included in form; please print on yellow paper and do not double-side)
- SOM CA Licensure & Medical Group Verification Form
- Sample Trainee Evaluation
- SOM ACF Referee Letter Template
CHECKLISTS for ACF:
- SOM ACF Initial Appointment Checklist (please do not make the copies listed in #5.)
- SOM ACF Reappointment Form and DOM ACF Reappointment Checklist (both are required)
- SOM ACF Promotion Checklist (please do not make the copies listed in #6.)
