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Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education

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Global Academy Jobs
Location
Pakistan
Closing date
Apr 10, 2017

Job Details

Aga Khan University (AKU), a private, self-governing international university chartered in Pakistan in 1983, is a role model for academic, research and service programmes in health and higher education in the developing world. The University currently has teaching sites in Pakistan, East Africa, the United Kingdom and Afghanistan, and is a major component of Aga Khan Development Network. The affiliated Aga Khan University Hospitals (AKUH) in Karachi and Nairobi have well-equipped investigative services and provide state-of-the-art clinical facilities. AKUH Karachi is the first hospital in Pakistan to be awarded the prestigious Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) for practicing the highest internationally-recognized healthcare standards.

Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) is one of the key components of experiential learning at AKU. The Department of PGME is an overarching body overseeing all postgraduate training programmes offered at the University.  In addition to a one-year Internship (House Job) programme, it currently offers 61 training programmes; most of them leading to Fellow College of Physicians and Surgeons (FCPS) degree conferred by College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP).

The hallmark of PGME programmes stresses upon acquisition of professional skills and knowledge as well as works diligently to enhance the development and experience of our learners while optimizing quality patient care.  Our training programmes are designed to provide innovative clinical experiences through a variety of educational strategies, developing our trainees into well-rounded clinicians who become leaders in the medical field and in the community. The Department continuously strives to improve the quality of the programmes through innovation as well as accountability process thereby meeting CPSP requirements and international standards.

Aga Khan University invite applications for the position of Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education. 

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Dean, Medical College; you will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing overall standards and quality of all PGME programmes.  You will also ensure that appropriate objectives, curriculum and evaluation systems are in place, and that the programmes are regularly reviewed. 

You will work closely with the Chief Executive Officer, AKUH Karachi and collaborate with Departmental Chairs to ensure that the Fellows, Residents and Interns fulfill the obligation of providing high quality patient care services, and will serve as the main liaison with the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) and such bodies that are involved in postgraduate medical education in Pakistan. 

Requirements

You should be a medical faculty, at least at the level of Associate Professor at a university, with a successful track record of leadership in Residency Programmes. You should have strong leadership and administrative credentials, excellent communication skills, as well as the ability to project the University and its Postgraduate Medical Education Programmes appropriately to stakeholders, peers and the community in general.

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