Professor in occupational and environmental medicine combined with employment as at least specialist physician at Stockholm Health Care Services

- with focus on research

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The Institute for Environmental Medicine (IMM) conducts research in occupational and environmental medicine, toxicology, epidemiology and physiology with the aim to clarify how environmental and lifestyle factors affect human health. IMM educates students, doctoral students and professionals in, for example, occupational and environmental medicine, and is responsible for the master's programme in work and health and the master's programme in toxicology at Karolinska Institutet. IMM is a national expert body in environmental medicine. Researchers at IMM are scientific advisors to authorities and other decision makers and participate in national and international expert groups.

Description of the subject area

Occupational and environmental medicine is a field focused on identifying, assessing, and preventing health risks caused by factors in the work environment and the general environment. Risk factors may include, for example, chemical, physical, biological and psychosocial factors. A specialist physician in occupational and environmental medicine investigates and assesses associations between occupational and environmental risks and disease, works preventively, and with a societal perspective.

Your mission

You will develop and strengthen occupational and environmental medicine research and education at IMM in close collaboration with the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm. You will conduct and lead research in occupational and environmental medicine and supervise primarily doctoral students and postdocs. You will also contribute to IMM’s role as a national expert body in environmental medicine in accordance with Ordinance (1994:1244) on the Institute of Environmental Medicine. Your duties will include teaching in courses for which IMM is responsible, such as within the master's programme in work and health, the master's programme in toxicology, and the medical programme. The position is combined with a clinical appointment of at least specialist physician at the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm. The position is distributed as 70 percent at Karolinska Institutet and 30 percent at the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for an employment as Professor with focus on research the applicant must have demonstrated excellent scientific skills, very good pedagogical skills and clinical skills.

For employment as Professor at Karolinska Institutet, the eligibility requirements are stated in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure and these are applied in relation to established profile of employment:

See the instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet.

It is a requirement that you have completed 10 weeks of courses on teaching in higher education, as indicated in the recommendations of the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions. If you lack such education at the time of employment, you must undergo such education during the first two years of employment.

The employment will be combined with an employment as a specialist physician, assistant chief physician or chief physician in occupational and environmental medicine at the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm and therefore you must have a Swedish MD with specialist competence in occupational and environmental medicine (in Swedish: arbets- och miljömedicin or the previous name yrkes- och miljömedicin) as well as fulfill the National Board of Health and Welfare's requirements for practicing medicine in Sweden.

Since the employment includes clinical work, you must, besides English, demonstrate proficiency in Swedish, Norwegian or Danish (C1 level according to the common European reference scale, CERS).

Assessment criteria

The Professorship has a focus on research. The assessment will weight qualifications as follows: scientific skills (3), pedagogical skills (2), leadership and collaboration skills (3), and clinical skills (2).

For employment as Professor at Karolinska Institutet, the assessment criteria stated are in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure and these are applied in relation to the established profile of employment:

See the instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet.

It is furthermore meritorious that you have demonstrated

• Documented activities in both occupational and environmental medicine regarding research and health risk assessment.

After an overall assessment of the expertise and merits of the applicants in relation to the subject area, Karolinska Institutet will determine which of them has the best potential to contribute to a positive development of the activities at KI.

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Here, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement. 

Location: Solna

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Application

Your application must contain the following documents in English: a cover letter as well as a resumé 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.

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

For the clinical employment at Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm

The clinical employment at the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm requires specialist certificate(s) in occupational and environmental medicine (in Swedish: arbets- och miljömedicin or the previous name yrkes- och miljömedicin) to be attached to the application.

The level of clinical employment (chief physician, assistant chief physician, specialist physician) is determined by the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm before the decision of employment is made.

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