Senior Lecturer in Cardiology combined with position as specialist physician at the Karolinska University Hospital

- with focus on education and research

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical education and research?

The Department of Medicine in Huddinge is one of Karolinska Institutet’s largest departments, responsible for education and research in internal medicine at Karolinska Institutet’s southern campus in Flemingsberg. The research covers basic, translational, and clinical projects within the broad field of internal medicine. The cardiology clinical operations at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge are extensive and successful, particularly in interventional cardiology, arrhythmias, heart failure, and cardio-oncology. The internal medicine education at the department is closely linked to the clinical cardiology operations, and as a senior lecturer with a combined appointment, you will become an important figure in the academic cardiology environment with a combined educational and research assignment.

Description of the subject area

Cardiology is one of the largest internal medicine specialties and constitutes an extensive activity at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, both clinically and in terms of research. A clinical area of activity of significant importance and which has expanded very strongly in recent years is advanced treatment of various arrhythmias. In this area, catheter-borne ablation treatment is developing rapidly. With over 1,700 procedures per year, Karolinska University Hospital is currently the largest centers in the Nordic region and one of the largest in Europe in invasive electrophysiology. Most of the operations (three laboratories out of four) are located at Karolinska Huddinge.

In addition to electrophysiology, the full spectrum of modern clinical arrhythmia activities is conducted, including cardio-genetics and cardio-oncology. In the field of cardio-oncology, clinical and experimental studies are also conducted in parallel, which is particularly important given the integration of clinical cardiology with experimental research groups within the department's newly formed unit "Integrative Cardiovascular, Cancer and Ageing unit" (ICCA).

Your mission

Medical education is currently undergoing significant changes to meet scientific and technological advances as well as changing healthcare needs. This includes the integration of digital methods and simulation tools with an increased focus on inter-professional collaboration, early clinical exposure, team-based learning and person-centered care. At the same time, the role of education needs to be strengthened in an increasingly production-driven healthcare environment without jeopardizing the education's research connection.

For these reasons, we want to recruit a senior lecturer with a combined position who will take responsibility for undergraduate education at the department as director of undergraduate education, but also for parts of the course in internal medicine in the medical program. To ensure that the teaching is related to research, it is important that you conduct and develop your own research in parallel.

Knowledge of heart disease is a central component in the education of all doctors, and you are therefore a cardiologist with extensive clinical experience. You have a pedagogical interest, qualifications in teaching and are interested in taking responsibility for parts of the department's undergraduate education in internal medicine. Your own research is of high quality and fits into the research profile of the department and the cardiology department. You have the ambition to develop your research in parallel with your work in education.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for an employment as Senior Lecturer with focus on education and research, in addition to holding a Degree of Doctor, PhD, or having equivalent scientific skills, the applicant must have demonstrated excellent pedagogical skills; very good scientific skills, and clinical skills.

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 Institution.

The employment will be combined with an employment as a specialist physician, assistant chief physician or chief physician in Cardiology at the Medical Unit Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital, and therefore you must have a Swedish MD with specialist competence in Cardiology  as well as fulfill the National Board of Health and Welfare's requirements for practicing medicine in Sweden.

 Since the position 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 Senior Lectureship has a focus on education and research. The assessment will weight qualifications as follows: scientific skills (2), pedagogical skills (3), leadership and collaboration skills (2), and clinical skills (2).

For employment as Senior Lecturer at Karolinska Institutet, the eligibility requirements and assessment criteria stated in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure are applied in relation to established profile of employment.

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

It is furthermore meritorious that you have demonstrated

• Assignments within larger central tasks within education at University or Regional level, such as education coordinator or responsible for basic education programmes
• Documented activity in pedagogical research.

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 innovative medical research and provide the largest range of biomedical 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: Flemingsberg

Department of Medicine, Huddinge | Karolinska Institutet
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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.

Clinical position at Karolinska University Hospital:

To obtain an employment as specialist physician (chief physician, assistant chief physician, specialist physician) at Karolinska University Hospital, assessment of the applicant’s clinical qualifications by the hospital’s Expert Committee is mandatory.

Hence, the documents listed below are required for determining the correct service level.

• Karolinska University Hospital’s form for Curriculum Vitae
• Specialist certificate(s) in Cardiology*
• PhD degree certificate**
• Certificate regarding docent/associate professor **
• List of 10 most important publications

*including specialist certificate(s) from other countries

**when applicable

Link to criteria for specialist doctor at Karolinska Universitety Hospital (in Swedish).

We look forward to receiving your application!

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