Lecturers in General Medicine Combined with Employment as a Physician in General Medicine

Karolinska Inst · Vollzeit

Alfred Nobels allé 23, Huddinge, Schweden

Do you want to contribute to improving people's health? Do you want to combine cutting-edge research with meaningful clinical work in general medicine? With us, you will have the opportunity to contribute to and further develop the research environment at the Department of General Medicine at Karolinska Institutet (KI), while working in primary care within Stockholm County Healthcare Region (SLSO) as a physician with specialist competence in general medicine. We offer a dynamic academic environment with interdisciplinary collaborations and a strong focus on clinical relevance. With us, you will be part of a setting where research, education, and patient-centered work go hand in hand to improve people's health and the future of primary care. The Department of General Medicine and Primary Care is one of seven departments at the Institute of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS). Teaching in 12 of the medical program's 18 courses and course responsibility for the medical program's final course in semester 12 are part of the department's educational mission. The department has approximately 40 doctoral students, a clinical research school in general medicine and primary care, and offers stand-alone courses at basic and advanced levels as well as commissioned education. The department conducts approximately 100 research projects. Subject Description General medicine is a broad and rapidly growing research and teaching subject at KI, and forms the foundation for the specialist competence required for physicians in primary care. In recent years, the government and parliament have implemented several initiatives to strengthen and develop primary care nationally, and this restructuring of health and medical care toward Good and Nearby Care is a high priority to meet future challenges in healthcare. The subject is characterized by a holistic approach to the patient, where medical breadth, clinical decision-making, and a biopsychosocial perspective are central components. Patients with chronic diseases are typically managed primarily in primary care, and care relationships are often long-term. The subject also includes knowledge and expertise for the extensive emergency care that takes place in primary care. Your Role We are seeking a physician with specialist competence in general medicine who has both knowledge and experience of teaching at undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral education levels, and who conducts high-quality research within the subject area. As a lecturer in general medicine, you will teach, examine, and supervise at undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral education levels. Your work will include developing and leading courses, particularly within the medical program, and contributing to pedagogical development and research integration of education. Your tasks include conducting your own research within the subject area and collaborating between academia and clinical practice to strengthen research in primary care, ensure education quality, and create sustainable structures for research and research education in collaboration. The employment is combined with clinical service as a specialist physician in general medicine at a university primary care center within Region Stockholm, where you will also contribute to the development of university healthcare in primary care. Qualification Requirements Qualified for employment as a lecturer with a focus on education and research is someone who, in addition to having completed a doctoral degree or possessing equivalent scientific competence, has demonstrated excellent pedagogical skills and very good scientific skills and clinical skills. For employment as a lecturer at Karolinska Institutet, the qualification requirements specified in the instructions to the employment regulations apply and are assessed in relation to the established employment profile's subject area. In addition, you must have completed higher education pedagogy training comprising 10 weeks in accordance with SUHF's recommendations for qualifying higher education pedagogy training. If such training is lacking at the time of employment, you must complete such training within the scope of your employment during the first two years of employment. The employment will be combined with clinical employment as a physician with specialist competence in general medicine, and therefore you must hold Swedish medical licensure and a specialist competence certificate in general medicine and meet the National Board of Health and Welfare's requirements for the practice of medicine in Sweden. Since the employment involves clinical work, you must, in addition to English, possess knowledge and proficiency in Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish (C1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, CEFR). Evaluation Criteria For this position, merit weighting will be as follows: scientific skills (3), pedagogical skills (3), leadership and collaboration skills (2), and clinical skills (2). It is based on an overall assessment of the applicants' merits and skills that Karolinska Institutet determines which of the applicants has the best prerequisites to contribute to positive development of the activities. Application The application must consist of the following documents: a personal letter and CV and credentials including a description of planned research, presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet's qualifications portfolio (http://ki.se/qualificationsportfolio). Assessment of credentials is conducted by external experts, in most cases both national and international. For this reason, we prefer that the documents be submitted in English. KI applies individual and differentiated salary setting according to our collective agreements RALS and RALS-T. Applications must be submitted via the recruitment system Varbi.