Professor in medical pedagogy with focus on clinical educational sciences combined with position as a specialist physician at Danderyd hospital (Prolonged application period) - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

- with focus on education and research

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The department of clinical sciences, Danderyd hospital (KI-DS) was established in its current form 1993. Annually, about 400 students undergo their basic medical training at KI DS, including the units of surgery and urology, anesthesiology and intensive care, radiology, internal medicine, cardiology and clinical physiology, clinical chemistry, obstetrics and gynecology as well as orthopedic surgery. The department conducts clinical research in several different areas with a focus on diseases frequently treated at the hospital. The department has about 90 registered PhD students and annually about 10 defend their dissertations for a doctoral degree in medicine. Approximately 200-250 articles are published annually in international peer-review journals. The department annually provides several courses for specialist competence in various subjects as well as further education courses for specialists and postgraduate courses.

Danderyd hospital is one of the largest hospitals for acute care in Sweden with extensive educational activities. Annually, we provide clinic-based training for about 2000 students in the healthcare area, this includes among others students training to become physicians, nurses, specialist nurses, physiotherapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, dieticians and biomedical analysts.

Your mission

The employment has a focus on education and research.

The department now wants to recruit a new professor who will lead and continue to develop research and having overall responsibility for the education in medical pedagogy and clinical educational sciences at Danderyd hospital. The position is intended to be divided as 70% employment at Karolinska Institutet as a professor, and 30% as a specialist physician at Danderyd hospital. The position also includes leading the development of the clinical training arena at the hospital, with the main focus on the medical doctor program to ensure the clinic-based training on the credential-based 6-year medical doctor program.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for employment as Professor the applicant must have demonstrated both research and teaching expertise, as well as management, development and 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 at Danderyd hospital and therefore the candidate must have an MD with specialist competence in internal medicine, cardiology, anesthesia and intensive care, surgery, urology or orthopedics or corresponding competence, as well as fulfill the National Board of Health and Welfare's requirements for practicing medicine in Sweden.

Since the employment requires collaboration within Karolinska Institutet and Danderyd hospital as well as with other hospitals in the county, the holder must have documented experience of collaboration between different units and of leading research activities.

Since the position includes patient contact the applicant must, besides English, demonstrate proficiency in Swedish, Norwegian or Danish corresponding to the C1 level according to the common European reference scale (CERS).

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.

Bases of assessment

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

It is particularly meritorious with experience in leading, coordinating and developing pedagogic and educational activities in a clinical environment.

After an overall assessment of the expertise and merits of the candidates, KI will judge which of the candidates that have the best potential to contribute to a positive development of the activities at KI.

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.

Location: Danderyd

Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital

Application

Your application must contain the following documents in English: a cover letter as well as a résumé and a qualifications portfolio including a description of your research plan, both presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet’s template (http://ki.se/qualificationsportfolio). You may change or add to your application at any time up to and including the application deadline date. After the deadline, the process closes, and no amendment or addition can be made to your application.

The applications will be reviewed by external reviewers, most often both national and international. For that reason, all the submitted documents should be written in English.

For the clinical position at Danderyd Hospital, proof of MD with specialist competence is required, attached to the application.

The level of clinical employment (Senior Consultant, Senior Registrar or Specialist Trained Physician) and clinic are determined by Danderyd Hospital before the decision of employment is made.

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

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