Consultant Paediatric Surgeon position combined with a clinical professorship in Paediatric Surgery with special focus on translational reconstruction techniques
A clinical position as Consultant
Paediatric Surgeon at the Department of Paediatric
Surgery, Surgical Clinic C at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen is open for
appointment from as soon as possible.
The position is combined with a 5-year Novo Nordisk Foundation funded position as clinical professor of Paediatric Surgery at the Faculty
of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
With this new position the
Department of Paediatric Surgery, Surgical Clinic C at Rigshospitalet,
Copenhagen wishes to strengthen the leadership in clinical and translational
research and teaching in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen.
It is a requirement that
the applicant is accepted for appointment of both the professorship and the
clinical position.
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
The Department of Paediatric
Surgery was founded in 1959 at Rigshospitalet and is now a division of Surgical
Clinic C. It is a tertiary paediatric surgical department covering all Denmark,
Greenland and Faroe Islands for selected cases and the department has a
regional catchment area of approximately 2 million inhabitants. The 7 pediatric
surgeons perform a wide variety of surgical procedures, including abdominal and
thoracic surgery, minimally invasive surgery including robotics, oncologic
surgery, abdominal trauma surgery and urological surgery. Children receive
coordinated care tailored to their condition both before and after surgery. There are 1800 operative
cases per year whereof half of them as day care surgery. The surgical ward has
15 beds and there are 7000 outpatient visits per year. The primary house
on-call is covered by fellows in specialist surgical training and the
department has fellowships in Paediatric Surgery and Paediatric Urology. There
is a close collaboration with neonatology, paediatric anesthesiology,
paediatric sub-specialties and paediatric diagnostic imaging. All academic
staff members are involved in clinical research. The research programs are
under responsibility of the professor and chair of Paediatric Surgery.
The Department of Paediatric Surgery, Surgical Clinic C, Abdominal Center
at Rigshospitalet in the Capital Region has obtained a high international level
in highly specialised treatment and research in the field of paediatric urology and paediatric surgery.
With the establishing and construction of a new Childrens Hospital
(BørneRiget) with an integrated environment of research, development and
education new possibilities emerge to lift advanced surgery to an a new and
even higher level by focusing at surgical research in close interaction with
medical and laboratory expertise within all specialities.
Its the aim to establish research programme in
including the development of tissue engineering” for clinical use in reconstructive paediatric surgery.
The professorship in reconstructive paediatric surgery with its close link
to the clinical development of new surgical procedures including techniques in
robotic surgery, will together with the development in the research in
stemcells at Rigshospitalet create a strong scientific environment in the
absolute international elite of paediatric surgery.
With the new position as
clinical professor with special focus on translational reconstruction
techniques the department wishes to strengthen the laboratory part in
translational research and the implementation in clinical Paediatric Surgery.
Qualifications:
The successful applicant should
be able to:
- Demonstrate a record of original scientific research at a high international level, including considerable contributions to the development of the subject area
- Document ongoing international collaborations
- Document formal pedagogical qualifications through a record of teaching in medicine
- Document general research management experience
- Document experience with leadership of laboratory research
- Document ability to communicate research results to the public
- Document ability to raise funding
The successful candidate
should also be enterprising and possess good interpersonal skills.
The applicant must have
Danish specialist authorization as a surgeon with documented sub-specialty in
Paediatric Surgery
Nordic specialist authorization
in Paediatric Surgery is accepted (Scandinavian/Danish speaking).
Foreign applicants from
European Union please see
Foreign applicants from
outside European Union please see
Conditions:
In order to be considered, the applicant must
send an application to both the Faculty (the professorship) and to the hospital
(the position as Consultant Paediatric Surgeon) cf. the simultaneously
advertised position of the professorship. Appointment is conditioned by the
fact that the applicant obtains both positions. This also applies to the
applicants who are already employed as Consultant Surgeons at Rigshospitalet.
Salary and conditions of
employment as Consultant Surgeon are as agreed between the Danish Regions and
the Danish Association of Medical Specialists and between the Capital
Region/Region Zealand and University of Copenhagen.
The professor’s duties will primarily
consist of:
- Research, including obligations with regard to publication and scientific communication
- Research and clinical leadership as well as educational guidance and supervision of junior doctors. Professionel responsibility for all Paediatric Surgery can be negotiated
- Laboratory evolution
- Research-based teaching
- Communication of research results to the public
- Peer assessment
Application procedure:
The application must include
the following:
- Curriculum Vitae and a complete list of publications
A description of how the applicant is
qualified as
- Clinical expert
- Communicator
- Collaborator
- Manager/administrator/organizer
- Health advocate
- Scholar/researcher/teacher
- Professional
The closing date for
applications is 23.59 pm C.E.T, 11th June, 2018.
Further information:
For further information please
contact Jens Hillingsø, Head of Surgical Clinic C Tel. + 45 35458780, or email:
jens.hillingsoe@regionh.dk or
Jorgen Thorup, Professor of
Paediatric Surgery. Tel. + 45 40358364, or email: j-thorup@rh.dk
The advertisement for the
professorship is available from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences,
University of Copenhagen HERE
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Rigshospitalet & Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej - Adresse
Blegdamsvej 9, 2100 København Ø -
Kontaktperson
Jens Hillingsø - Stillingstype
Overlæge - Speciale
Kirurgi - Ansættelsesform
Fast ansættelse - Ugentlig arbejdstid
Fuld tid - Ansættelsens start
Snarest muligt - Regionens jobnr.
211469 - Quick-nr.
341770 - Indrykningsdato
17-04-2018 -
Ansøgningsfrist
11-06-2018 (udløbet)
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