5.1. Search Principles

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Excellence in the Faculty of Medicine depends on using on open and transparent searches to recruit faculty, identifying the broadest possible pool of candidates and evaluating those candidates with a rigorous process that minimizes bias.

We subscribe to the following key principles:

  • Ensuring maximal effort to minimize bias, conscious and unconscious, from our procedures
  • Using evidence, where available, to establish effective practices in faculty recruitment
  • Providing training to those entrusted to lead and shepherd our faculty recruitment processes
  • Developing strategies for identifying the broadest possible pool of candidates
  • Creating mechanisms to facilitate timely recruitment of outstanding candidates
  • Complying with all laws and regulations regarding faculty recruitment
  • Partnering with our affiliated institutions to support processes that comply with these principles while achieving local objectives

Last updated June 2024