Teaching Associate, Family Medicine

Position: Teaching Associate, Family Medicine

Department:Family Medicine

Entity:Medical College

Location: Karachi, Pakistan

Introduction:

Aga Khan University, chartered in 1983 as Pakistan's first private international university, is committed to the provision of education, research and health care of international standard relevant to Pakistan and the region. The affiliated Aga Khan University Hospital has well-equipped investigative services and provides state-of-the-art clinical facilities.

Aga Khan University invites applications for the position of Teaching Associate (Part Time), Department of Family Medicine.

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible to:

• contribute to the teaching of course participants according to responsibilities assigned by the course director, course coordinator and module coordinators
• co-facilitate various components of the modules
• participate in the revision of the curriculum and its assessment methods
• help in presentation and review of discussion forum tasks, cases for synchronous session and other interactive activities of the module
• participate actively in clinical skills teaching sessions
• participate in preparing, reviewing and conducting of clinical skills assessment exam
• develop/maintain a very good understanding of the research protocol and related study instruments
• liaise and coordinate for research study requirements with relevant departments of the institution, field team and communities
• maintain study documentation as per protocol and GCP requirements (enrolment, data quality and monitoring)
• maintain regulatory and administrative study documents in accordance with applicable regulations, institutional requirements, and ICH GCP guidelines
• facilitate all start-up and close-out requirements of the study
• participate in the clinical assessment process
• assist in grant preparation, costing and study budgeting
• contribute in the planning, development and implementation of staff/faculty training and capacity building under the direction of the supervisors
• facilitate in monitoring and audits of the department
• participate in quality improvement initiatives and other special assignments as delegated from time to time by the supervisors.

Requirements:

You should have:

• MBBS or equivalent foreign degree
• at least 2 years of clinical experience; however, clinical experience in Family Medicine/General Practice will be preferred
• broad based clinical knowledge with sound clinical judgement
• excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Urdu
• flexibility and creativity in planning new activities
• willingness and aptitude to learn new online/teacing and learning tools. Familiarity with tools such as Kahoot, would be highly desirable
• ability to build good working relationships with course participants and fellow colleagues
• excellent computer skills and can facilitate online learning using different tools to enhance participation and engagement by the participants
• ability to retrieve accurate data from medical records. Some data analysis backround in SPSS or Stata would be highly desirable
• ability to handle diverse set of tasks for multiple research studies simultaneously.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.