Professor in pediatrics combined with position as at least specialist physician at Karolinska University Hospital

- with focus on education and research

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

At the Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), the division of Pediatrics, there are excellent opportunities to conduct leading and high-quality research in pediatrics.

In addition, we annually hold four courses in pediatrics in the medical program semester 10 and two student-selected courses in semester 11. Research, teaching and clinic are closely geographically integrated, which provides very good conditions for creating effective networks.

Description of the subject area

Pediatrics, i.e. child and adolescent medicine, is a broad specialty with several subspecialist areas within Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital. The specialty deals with all medical health problems from the newborn period to the age of 18.  Within the division of Pediatrics, CLINTEC, clinical, translational and epidemiological research is carried out within the subspecialty areas that characterize the medical activities of Astrid Lindgren's Children's Hospital (ALB) at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, such as pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition, pediatric nephrology, pediatric hematology, neonatology, emergency pediatrics , pediatric neurology, pediatric obesity, pediatric allergology, pediatric pulmonary medicine, as well as children with HIV infection and cystic fibrosis.

Your mission

We are looking for a future colleague who is a specialist in pediatrics with an academic and clinical focus within one of the sub-specialist areas mentioned above. You will supervise doctoral students MD-students as well as future pediatricians, conduct research of high quality as well as being course director and examinator at the MD-program. You are also expected to drive and administer the development of the division, the department and Karolinska Institutet, for example through various central administrative tasks.

The position as a professor in pediatrics includes clinical duties as at least specialist physician in child and adolescent medicine at Astrid Lindgrens Childrens Hospital at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge. The position is divided in 50 percent at Karolinska Institutet and 50 percent as a clinician at Astrid Lindgrens Childrens Hospital at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for an employment as Professor with focus on education and research the applicant must have demonstrated excellent pedagogical skills and 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 specialist physician, assistant chief physician or chief physician in pediatrics (SV: barn- och ungdomsmedicin) at Astrid Lindgrens Childrens Hospital at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge and therefore you must have an MD with specialist competence in pediatrics, 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 education and research. The assessment will weight qualifications as follows: scientific skills (3), pedagogical skills (3), leadership and collaboration skills (2) and clinical skills (2).

For employment as Professor 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.

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: Flemingsberg

Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology - CLINTEC

Your career continues here

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 (in Swedish)
• Specialist certificate(s) in pediatrics and if applicable in a pediatric subspecialty*
• Certificate on PhD degree**
• Certificate regarding docent/associate professor **
• List of publications (10 most important)

*including specialist certificate(s) from other countries

**when applicable

Link to criteria for specialist physician at Karolinska University Hospital (in Swedish).

We look forward to receiving your application!

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