These policies, incorporated into this book, provide a valuable framework for the important collegial relationship between faculty members, their department directors, and the Dean. I hope this book will prove useful to you and reinforce the attitude of trust and good faith often cited as that which sets Hopkins apart from other institutions. In addition, these university- credentialed and appointed practitioners have contributed importantly to the clinical, administrative, and rvesearch programs of the medical school and hospital.
Students benefit from a faculty thus composed.
Private practitioners bring large numbers of patients to the medical center, providing an important source of patients for the education of those in training. These patients also become potentially available for ongoing clinical research projects which ultimately contribute to and strengthen the institution's generation of new knowledge. More and more patients are being treated away from the core of the hospital at peripheral locations, settings more like private practice. The document which follows acknowledges the role of the part-time faculty. The document addresses the institutional need to apply special policies and guidelines for the appointment and promotion of part-time faculty based on their ability and active participation in the programs of The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.