Professor/Senior Consultant

The Institute of Clinical Medicine has a vacant position for a Professor II/Associate Professor (20 %) in Digestive Surgery. The part-time academic position is combined with a full-time (100 %) senior consultant position in Digestive Surgery at Akershus University Hospital, Department of Digestive Surgery.

Relating the main position:
The Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery at Akershus University Hospital is one of the country's largest speciality departments within gastroenterological surgery. The department has 17 senior consultant positions, of which 2 are combined with professor II and professor 1 positions.
The department has an active research environment in both basic and clinical research. The department has extensive elective activities within colorectal surgery, anoproctology, biliary surgery, and hernia treatment. The pelvic centre at AHUS is an interdisciplinary forum for difficult disorders of the pelvic floor and pelvic organs, and several of the department's doctors have a prominent role there.
The department has a large day surgery and outpatient activity. The bed posts are organized into two bed areas with a total of 57 beds. We have day surgery operations at Ahus Gardermoen, including operative procedures and an outpatient clinic.

Akershus University Hospital is a workplace with great diversity. Diversity is a clear strength and crucial to solving our many tasks in patient treatment, patient follow-up, research, and teaching. We therefore also want a diverse pool of applicants for vacant positions and encourage all qualified individuals to apply, regardless of race, gender, identity, or background. The department employee must be prepared to participate in activities at Ahus Gardermoen on an agreed-upon daily basis. 
 
Requirements

• Authorisation and medical license issued by the Norwegian Directorate of Health
• Certified qualifications in the speciality of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery issued by the Norwegian Directorate of Health, this includes qualifications and willingness to fill the role as on-duty senior physician
• Senior physicians in the department participate in weekend duty every seventh week, as well as going rounds and seeing outpatients
• Foreign applicants may apply, with the requirement that they obtain Norwegian medical authorisation and certification in the speciality of Gastrointestinal surgery and/or General surgery before joining the position
• Applicants must speak Norwegian, Swedish or Danish to be capable of communicating with the patients in the ward/outpatient clinic
• Hold a strong record in research within Gastrointestinal surgery with ongoing research activity
• Applicants must have good cooperative and communication skills and documented experience in successful collaborative teamwork.
• Experience in supervising PhD candidates and medical students.
• Candidates from abroad and especially other Nordic countries will come under full considerations. 

Regarding the part-time (20 %) academic position:
For the complete job description with qualification requirements and basis of evaluation on the academic position, please see: https://www.med.uio.no/klinmed/om/ledige-stillinger/stillingsbeskrivelser/2026-8089-description-of-position-gastrointestinal-surgery.pdf 
Interpersonal skills, the ability to create an attractive research environment, and plans for research and ambitions relating to the applicant's personal teaching practice will be emphasised. The successful applicant will participate in teaching of medical students at the University of Oslo, and have documented teaching experience and pedagogic qualifications. As a main rule, interviews will be held and references collected. Applicants may also be required to give a trial lecture.

Application for the academic part-time position must include:

• A cover letter and CV. 
• Complete list of publications.
• Separate list of 10 most relevant publications to be evaluated specifically for the position (please submit in full text). 
• Overview of experience in supervising PhD candidates, including names of the candidates, period of supervision, information on institutions and dates for the presentation of the theses, as well as specific information regarding experience  as main- or co-supervisor for each candidate.
• Description of qualifications regarding administration, leadership, teaching and foreign language skills.
• Other relevant qualifications.

Please, scan and send the documents as PDF-files (maximum 10 MB)

See guidelines for designing the application, information for applicants, rules for appointments to Associate/Adjunct Professorships as well as rules concerning pedagogical skills: http://www.med.uio.no/english/about/vacancies/procedures/

HR- Officer in charge Maren Retterstøl Olaisen, Institute of Clinical Medicine (questions regarding the academic application) +47 228 50 545