Duke AHEAD will assist  faculty who wish to incorporate education activities as a significant component of their academic portfolio of accomplishments for promotion by:

• providing support and formal mentoring for faculty who want to develop a career in health professions education
• recognizing educational accomplishment with teaching awards annually to those who embody the principles of excellence in teaching 
• establishing appropriate metrics to evaluate academic accomplishment in education
• assist in  documenting their education contributions for purposes of promotion and tenure.
• providing departmental APT committees with an assessment of the quality of a faculty members "educational" academic accomplishment