Visiting faculty vs clinical professor

The differences between visiting faculties and clinical professors can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 2-4 years to become both a visiting faculty and a clinical professor. Additionally, a clinical professor has an average salary of $158,577, which is higher than the $68,611 average annual salary of a visiting faculty.

The top three skills for a visiting faculty include architecture, mathematics and undergraduate courses. The most important skills for a clinical professor are patients, internal medicine, and clinical practice.

Visiting faculty vs clinical professor overview

	Visiting Faculty	Clinical Professor
Yearly salary	$68,611	$158,577
Hourly rate	$32.99	$76.24
Growth rate	12%	12%
Number of jobs	8,224	64,374
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 48%	Bachelor's Degree, 34%
Average age	46	46
Years of experience	4	4

Visiting faculty vs clinical professor salary

Visiting faculties and clinical professors have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Visiting Faculty	Clinical Professor
Average salary	$68,611	$158,577
Salary range	Between $40,000 And $117,000	Between $78,000 And $318,000
Highest paying City	New York, NY	Cincinnati, OH
Highest paying state	New York	Ohio
Best paying company	Minneapolis College of Art and Design	IU Health Inc
Best paying industry	Health Care	Health Care

Differences between visiting faculty and clinical professor education

There are a few differences between a visiting faculty and a clinical professor in terms of educational background:

	Visiting Faculty	Clinical Professor
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 48%	Bachelor's Degree, 34%
Most common major	English	Nursing
Most common college	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Visiting faculty vs clinical professor demographics

Here are the differences between visiting faculties' and clinical professors' demographics:

	Visiting Faculty	Clinical Professor
Average age	46	46
Gender ratio	Male, 49.1% Female, 50.9%	Male, 46.9% Female, 53.1%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 6.3% Unknown, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 9.0% Asian, 17.8% White, 61.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 7.3% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 10.4% Asian, 11.7% White, 65.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	16%	16%

Differences between visiting faculty and clinical professor duties and responsibilities

Visiting faculty example responsibilities.

Lead early childhood program initiatives.
Conduct regular checks of doors and windows to ensure lock functionality.
Conduct research in physical chemistry department
Support the development of a comprehensive literature unit curriculum, including balance literacy that utilizes a variety of reading strategies.
Analyze writings to initiate thematic, multicultural comprehension/interpretation of literature
Supervise senior capstone project at request of administration.

Clinical professor example responsibilities.

Design, manage and execute research plan to investigate role of StarD4 and StarD5 proteins in lipid metabolism as the P.I.
Conduct weekly didactic series on substance abuse theory, research, assessment, and treatment with 3rd year psychiatry residents.
Experiment with different surface chemistry to improve quality of yields -participate in poster session and presentation to faculty and graduate students.
Participate in recruitment and selection of prospective faculty (physician and psychologist) and psychiatry residents.

Visiting faculty vs clinical professor skills

Common visiting faculty skills

Architecture, 20%
Mathematics, 14%
Undergraduate Courses, 11%
Art History, 6%
Physiology, 5%
Chemistry, 4%

Common clinical professor skills

Patients, 23%
Internal Medicine, 7%
Clinical Practice, 6%
Direct Patient Care, 6%
Pediatrics, 5%
Surgery, 5%

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