>>> “Voluntary clinical faculty” .... It is a non-tenure track unpaid designation, there are at least 10 000 volunteer teachers so designated at US medical schools, in general, it is not as significant as a paid tenure track job, the usual adjective for which is “full time”.
But why would medical schools let these ‘voluntary clinical faculty’ teach regular courses? Are they just substitute teachers on call filling in when regular professors can’t make it?
“But why would medical schools let these ‘voluntary clinical faculty’ teach regular courses?”
My daughter’s school has regular guest lecturers. In addition, there are many schools that have various centers for pushing some kind of research or pushing a political agenda (for example, my daughter’s school has a Center for Eastern Christianity that they sponsor)
That could be part of it.