Job Description
Entity
Aga Khan University
Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Introduction
AKU- Department of Surgery is seeking a Senior Instructor/ Lecturer & Consultant Spine Surgeon to develop a highly skilled and competent team in the delivery of quality Spine and Neurosurgery services to patients and their families as well as carry out research in defined areas as well as in areas of professional interest and knowledge.
Responsibilities
The Successful applicant will be committed to advancing best practice in their discipline, meet the quality and patient safety standards of an internationally accredited university hospital. The successful applicant besides providing tertiary care clinical services, will develop their academic career in teaching and research. In education the focus will remain on undergraduate and post graduate medical education. The incumbent will be involved in:
• Assisting residents in their rotation and implementing and monitoring educational programmes while ensuring programme outcomes are attained.
• Assisting in the setting of examinations and ensuring formative assessments of the residents/interns are duly filled.
• Promoting and facilitating residents’ research, participating in scholarly activities including educational and clinical research and facilitating the publication of residents’ research work.
• Providing pre-determined clinical service, both in and out-patient.
• Establishing clinical services aligned to areas of interest and specialization and attending to emergency cases as and when required.
• Preparing a schedule of regular clinical teaching activity.
Requirements
• Applicants must have a completion certificate of specialty training in neurourgery with a qualification of MMed in Neurosurgery or equivalent with FCS/FRCS
• S/he must be registered or eligible for registration with Kenya Medical Practitioners’ & Dentists Council as a specialist.
• Should have subspecialty training in Spine Surgery with at least 5 years’ of basic neurosurgical training and 1 year of spine surgery training
• Must demonstrate competency and dexterity with all equipment utilized in the hospital environment and be a good team player