Full Time Faculty - ENT Surgeon, Department of Surgery

Full Time Faculty – ENT Surgeon, Department of Surgery
Department:     Department of Surgery
Entity:        Medical College
Location:         Nairobi, Kenya

Introduction
Established in 2004, the Aga Khan University Medical College in East Africa seeks to provide high quality education for health professional leaders who will then go on to become reputable specialists generating a positive and lasting impact in the lives of their patients and in the communities they serve. Our goal is to produce health professional leaders through our unique training programmes, building strong research programmes, supporting the best practice in the delivery of health services, and contributing to the broader community through strategic partnerships regionally and globally. We aspire to build for the youth of East Africa, a medical college of international quality, providing them with the opportunity to get the best health professional education that is relevant and has impact across East Africa, and indeed, in the world.

Job Summary
The Department of Surgery is seeking an ENT Surgeon to coordinate and monitor high quality educational programme; contribute to scholarship; and provide exemplary clinical service in line with the departmental practice plan for the delivery of quality services to patients and their families.

Responsibilities
•    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.
•    Generate audits from clinical practice to align with expected clinical outcomes. 
•    Provides pre-determined clinical service; outpatient and inpatient.
•    Establish clinical services aligned to areas of interest and specialization and attending to emergency cases as and when required. 
•    Prepare a schedule of regular clinical teaching activity.

Requirements
•    Applicants must have a Master of Medicine in Surgery.
•    Applicants must have completed their Fellowship program in ENT.
•    S/he must be registered or eligible for registration with Kenya Medical Practitioners’ & Dentists Council as a sub-specialist. 
•    Should have a minimum of 4 years’ clinical experience at a reputable institution.
•    Should have a minimum academic position of Senior Instructor.
•    Should possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
•    Experience in leadership roles in medical education and clinical fields.