Associate Professor - AMHSP

This competition is open to all applicants; however, internal applicants will be given priority consideration based on minimum qualifications, or a combination of experience, skills, and abilities before external applicants are considered.

Location - This role is hybrid with a mix of remote and in-person. Work primarily takes place at North Campus and Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton.

The Department of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta, in partnership with Alberta Health Services, Edmonton Zone, is inviting applications for an academic/tenured track Academic Medicine and Health Service Program (AMHSP) position for a full-time Intensivist at the Associate Professor level.

Located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry is one of Canada’s premier health-education institutions and has been internationally recognized among the world’s top 50 medical schools. The University of Alberta has been ranked amongst the top 100 teaching and research universities in the world serving over 39,000 students with more than 15,000 faculty and staff. The University has an annual budget in excess of $1.7 billion and attracts significant external funding.

The Department of Critical Care Medicine, within the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, is a growing research and education-focused Department, currently consisting of 11 Full-Time and 6 Special-Continuing Academic Faculty and over 70 Clinical Faculty across four teaching hospitals. The Department has a fully accredited Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada residency program and a well-developed subspecialty fellowship program. The Department also offers clinical experience to medical students and residents from other training programs during their elective critical care rotations. Research groups in the Department spans a wide spectrum from basic science and translational work through health services research and clinical trials across all aspects of the practice of critical care medicine.

The City of Edmonton, with a growing and diverse population of ~ 1.6 million, is the cosmopolitan capital of Alberta. With an abundance of services, a beautiful river valley, world-class entertainment options, a multitude of community activities and attractive and financially reasonable living accommodations, our energetic city has something for everyone. Recreational and leisure opportunities in the Canadian Rockies are a short distance away. For further details about our vibrant city, please visit www.edmonton.ca.

The successful candidate will have an academic appointment with the University of Alberta at the rank of Associate Professor. The position will afford protected time for leadership, education and research. The successful applicant will strategically fulfill the Department’s evolving clinical and research priorities, with a focus on clinical research and clinical trials. The dominant theme will be research with a substantial contribution to education. The candidate’s academic/research portfolio will be strategically based at the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) ICU, with the aim of growing the research productivity at this site, both local investigator-initiative and broader collaborative initiatives (e.g., provincial, national and internation). The successful applicant will be expected to mentor, supervise and sponsor multi-level learners, including medical students, residents and fellows.

The successful candidate be certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada with an MD, FRCPC, possess a specialist certificate or equivalent in Critical Care Medicine, and be eligible for licensure with a specialist designation in critical care medicine with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA). In addition, the successful candidate will have undertaken formal training in educational scholarship, crisis resource management and/or health research methods (Master, PhD or equivalent). The successful candidate will further have demonstrated a proven track record in education across multi-level learners, demonstrated by curriculum development and learner supervision.

Application Instructions

Interested applicants are invited to apply online by submitting a cover letter, their curriculum vitae, a teaching statement, and the names and contact information of three referees, one of whom must be the current supervisor or the most recent supervisor (kindly submit all documents as one single PDF). The cover letter should outline the applicant’s vision for a tenured track AMHSP position in the key pillars of clinical service, education, administration/leadership, and, if desired, research.

Remuneration for this position will be commensurate with qualifications and experience and based on the income scale of the six-step Academic Medicine and Health Services Program (AMHSP).

The successful candidate will be offered a tenured or tenure-track appointment at the rank of Associate Professor, which is in accordance with Schedule A of the Collective Agreement between the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta and the Association of the Academic Staff of the University of Alberta.