Senior Lecturer in Endocrinology combined with position as least specialist physician at 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 (MedH) is one of Karolinska Institutet's largest. We are responsible for education and research in internal medicine at KI's southern campus in Flemingsberg. The research spans basic, translational and clinical projects in internal medicine. The endocrinology activities at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge are extensive and successful – especially in diabetes, lipid disorders and osteoporosis.

Preparatory internal medicine education in medical diagnostics and basic scientific integration is partly conducted at MedH and is traditionally linked to clinical endocrinology and metabolic diseases. As a senior lecturer with a combined position, you will be a key person in the academic endocrinology environment. You will have a combined assignment in education and research – with the opportunity to influence and develop the medicine of the future.

Description of the subject area

Endocrinology is a cornerstone among the internal medicine specialties that include everything from common diseases such as diabetes, osteoporosis and lipid disorders to highly specialized care in pituitary gland diseases, adrenal gland diseases, neuroendocrine tumor diseases, congenital metabolic disorders, etc.

The endocrinology unit at Karolinska University Hospital has breadth and cutting-edge expertise that cannot be matched by any other unit in the Nordic region and is highly ranked in Newsweek's ranking of specialized units.

Your mission

Medical education is currently undergoing significant changes in the form of integration of digital methods and simulation tools, as well as an increased focus on interprofessional collaboration, early clinical exposure, team-based learning, and person-centered care. To strengthen the role of education in an increasingly production-driven healthcare environment without jeopardizing the education's research connection, we are now looking for someone who wants to work as a senior lecturer with combined employment and take responsibility for parts of the department's educational assignment. The assignment includes ensuring research connection in education by conducting and developing your own research.

You who apply for this position are specialists in endocrinology. You have a pedagogical interest, qualifications in teaching and have your own successful research in the field of endocrinology and 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. 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 Endocrinology at the Medical Unit Endocrinology, Karolinska University Hospital and therefore you must have a Swedish MD with specialist competence in Endocrinology 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.

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

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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 Endocrinology*
• 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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