Tenure-Track Slots Drop at Academic Medical Centers

The proportion of new faculty members at medical schools and academic medical centers who are hired on the tenure track has fallen to 25 percent, down from 46 percent in 1984, according to new data in Analysis in Brief, a publication of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The research found that the decline is not from academic medical centers dropping tenure altogether -- only a small number lack tenure systems and that number hasn't grown -- but from institutions increasing hiring off the tenure track.