Senior Lecturer in Clinical Medicine with focus on Surgery combined with a clinical position as specialist trained physician at Capio St Görans Hospital - Prolonged application period - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

- with focus on research

Do you want to contribute to bedside clinical education and top-quality clinical research?

The Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery (MMK) has well established educational- and research profiles in clinical surgery at a high international level and carries out both preclinical and clinical research within numerous fields.

MMK is responsible for the course in Clinical Medicine - Surgery within the medical program and is also responsible for ensuring high quality in the clinical placements (VFU). The Surgery course is an essential part of the medical program in teaching the students in diagnostics and treatment of common surgical disease entities. With the re-direction of patient cohorts from the highly specialized Karolinska University Hospital to other hospitals, a collaboration has been established with Capio St Görans Hospital (CStG) within the Emergency Trauma and Intensive Care Unit, and parts of this teaching are conducted at CStG.

Capio St Görans Hospital (CStG) is part of one of the leading private healthcare companies in Europe, Capio AB. CStG is one of Sweden´s largest emergency hospitals, centrally located at Kungsholmen in Stockholm. The surgical patient flow at the hospital includes general surgery, urology, orthopedic surgery, oncology, anesthesia, pain management and radiology. CStG´s vision is to run “healthcare of the future” and mission is to provide “better care by learning, challenging and innovating”. See also www.capiostgoran.se.

Your mission

The person in mind is expected, in collaboration with MMK, to be responsible for the medical bedside educational program within the surgical patient flow at Capio St Görans Hospital. Further contribute to strengthening undergraduate education, postgraduate education and research in clinical surgery.

The position as Senior Lecturer in clinical surgery will be combined with a position as specialist trained physician in general surgery, orthopedic surgery, urology, anesthesia or a corresponding specialty, at CStG. If the appointee fulfills CStG’s requirements for employment as Senior Registrar or Senior Consultant, the appointee can be offered this position. The employment rate is divided into 60% at MMK and 40% at CStG.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for employment as a Senior Lecturer, in addition to holding a Degree of Doctor, PhD, or having equivalent scientific expertise, the person must have demonstrated research and teaching expertise, as well as management, development, collaborative skills and clinical expertise. (See the instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet).

The position will be combined with a position as a specialist trained physician within the surgical patient flow at Capio St Görans Hospital and therefore the candidate must have an MD with specialist competence in general surgery, urology, orthopedic surgery, anesthesia or corresponding competence, as well as fulfill the National Board of Health and Welfare's requirements for practicing medicine in Sweden.

The applicant should have experience in graduate and post graduate teaching.

Bases of assessment 

The Senior Lectureship has a focus on research. The assessment will weight qualifications as follows: educational expertise (2), research expertise (3), leadership, development and collaboration expertise (2) and clinical expertise (2).

The applicant shall also have completed courses of 10 weeks of higher education training in teaching or have equivalent competence in accordance with the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions recommendations for qualification as a higher education teacher. If the person appointed for the position is lacking such education at the time of the employment, the appointee must undergo such education during the first two years of employment.

After an overall assessment of the expertise and merits of the candidates, Karolinska Institutet and Capio St Görans Hospital will in collaboration judge which of the candidates that have the best potential to contribute to a positive development of the activities.

What do we offer?

Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Our vision is to pursue the development of knowledge about life and to promote better health for all. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct innovative medical research and provide the largest range of biomedical education in Sweden. Karolinska Institutet is a state university, which entitles employees to several benefits such as extended holiday and a generous occupational pension. Employees also have free access to our modern gym and receive reimbursements for medical care.

Capio S.t Görans Hospital is one of the leading emergency hospitals in Sweden. The newspaper Daily Medicine rated in its latest ranking CStG “the best hospital of the year” in its category. Capio S.t Görans Hospital offers several benefits for their employees. For further information, please see https://capiostgoran.se/

Location: Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet and Capio St Görans Hospital, respectively.

Application

We prefer that your application is written in English, but you can also apply with an application written in Swedish. Your application must contain the following documents: Resumé, qualifications and description of planned research, presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet’s qualifications portfolio (http://ki.se/qualificationsportfolio). 

The clinical employment at Capio S:t Görans Hospital requires Swedish specialist certificate(s) issued by the National Board of Health and Welfare and/or specialist certificate(s) from other countries than Sweden to be attached to the application.

The applications will be reviewed by external reviewers, normally both national and international. The level of clinical employment (Senior Consultant, Senior Registrar or Specialist Trained Physician) is determined by Capio S:t Görans Hospital before the decision of employment is made.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

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