Canadian Association of University Teachers

 

Issues & Campaigns

Clinical Faculty

Excellence in academic medicine depends upon a work environment characterized by intellectual curiosity, relentless critical inquiry, and a desire to improve clinical practice and advance scientific knowledge. Academic freedom is an essential component of such an environment but, for various historical and structural reasons, clinical faculty enjoy far less of its protection than other university faculty.

Resources

Clinical Faculty Cases
Nancy Olivieri
David Healy
Gabrielle Horne
Memorial University/Affiliated Health Care Institutions
Decision vindicating Dalhousie professor of medicine demonstrates need for change to medical by-laws
   
CAUT Reports
Defending Medicine: Clinical Faculty and Academic Freedom (Dec 2004)