Consultancy in Emergency Medicine combined with a clinical professorship in Emergency Medicine

A clinical position as consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Department of Emergency Medicine at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital is open for appointment as soon as possible.

The position is combined with a 10-year position as clinical professor of Emergency Medicine at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

With this new position the Department of Emergency Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital wishes to strengthen the leadership in clinical 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 consultancy.

The advertisement for the professorship is available from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen (https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=157301)

Emergency Medicine is a relatively new medical speciality in Denmark, and we expect the applicants can provide a strong commitment to this new speciality in order to enhance as well academic as clinical development in the field. Therefore, applicants must be either board certified in the speciality Emergency Medicine or show intentions to achieve this board certification within a reasonable time frame.

About the department

Organisation

The catchment area of Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital is approximately 450.000 inhabitants – the second largest in Denmark, covering the Inner City, Østerbro, Nørrebro and Nordvest. Patients in need of acute hospitalizations are presently admitted to either Bispebjerg or Frederiksberg Hospital. A multidisciplinary emergency unit with modern imaging, laboratory and treatment facilities is presently under planning and construction and is expected to open in 2024. The facility will provide one point of entry for all acutely ill patients and condensate acute care in designated areas across specialties. Following the opening, the hospital will also be able to provide gynaecologic, obstetric and paediatric services for the population.

The Emergency Department has three units at til hospital: The Emergency Department of Bispebjerg Hospital, open 24/7, where approx. 85.000 patients are admitted annually and the Acute Medical Center with approx. 40 beds where 30.000 patients with acute medical diseases are hospitalized for up to 48 hours. And at Frederiksberg Hospital the Acute Clinic, opening hours 09.00-21.00 with annually 35.000 patients with minor injuries and general medical diseases.

Clinical functions and focus areas of the department

The Emergency Department collaborates with several other clinical specialities at the hospital (internal medicine, cardiology, neurology, surgery, orthopaedics, geriatrics, anaesthesiology) which in combination with assistance from laboratory and imaging specialties 24/7/365 ensures that acutely admitted patients are treated professionally and at a high level of quality.

At present the medical staff at the Emergency Department employs a total of 40 doctors. And we are constantly expanding.

As the speciality of emergency medicine is set to develop and expand further in the coming years, this field is of primary interest and focus at the organizational hospital level. Thus, the department is expected to participate in and hold key positions in the development of a joined, mutual, across-hospital acute care programme. A program that hopefully will develop and improve all aspects of acute care at the hospital.

Research and teaching

With the new position as consultant at the Department of Emergency Medicine and clinical professor of Emergency Medicine, the Department of Emergency Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital wishes to strengthen leadership in clinical research and teaching and herby expand our ongoing research efforts. Currently we have a senior researcher part-time. In addition to that, we have engaged two PhDs, three medicine students and one doctor dedicated research.

We are currently publishing 10-15 scientific publications/year and have the ambition to rise both the number and the impact of our scientific publications and aim to create an inspiring research environment in the department.

Qualifications

Applicants must be board-certified specialist in Emergency Medicine.

Conditions

In order to be considered, the applicant must send an application to both the Faculty (the professorship) and to the hospital (the consultancy) 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 consultants at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital.

Salary and conditions of employment as consultant are as agreed between the Danish Regions and the Danish Association of Medical Specialists and between the Capital Region and University of Copenhagen.

As clinical professor at least 50% of the working time will be allocated to academic tasks (e.g. research, teaching, evaluation tasks and communication with the public) in agreement with the Head of Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Copenhagen. The remaining time will be allocated for clinical work in agreement with the head of Department of Emergency Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital. The clinical professor will receive secretarial or technical support equivalent to 50% of a fulltime secretary position from the department of Emergency Medicine at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital. Additional support and details on the working conditions must be negotiated with the head of the department of Emergency Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital.

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

For applicants with a foreign license also a copy of the authorization certificate for specialist in Emergency Medicine recognition.

The applicant must argue why he/she is applying specifically at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital.

The closing date for applications is 9 November 2022.

For further information please contact the Lead Consultant of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital Jens Rasmussen; either telephone +45 26 19 88 01 or email [email protected]

The advertisement for the professorship is available from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen on http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/

The advertisement for the Consultancy in Emergency Medicine at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital is available on https://www.regionh.dk/english/Job/Pages/default.aspx

Information on Terms of employment for the Capital Region on https://www.regionh.dk/english/job/Pages/default.aspx

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