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The Medical School EWL at Bielefeld University intends to fill at the Clinic for Internal Medicine, Pneumology and Intensive Care Medicine at campus Bielefeld-Bethel a

Professorship for Internal Medicine – Focus on Pneumology (W3 or W2 TT W3)

at the earliest possible date.

At Bielefeld University, an innovative Medical School with an interdisciplinary individual and population medicine orientation and the University Medical Center East Westphalia Lippe, with the Klinikum Bielefeld, Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel (EvKB), and Klinikum Lippe as holders, are established. Teaching started in the winter semester of 2021/22. We are looking for personalities who want to seize the development situation and its challenges as a chance and actively participate in research, teaching, patient care, and organization. We offer an exciting environment that opens up a wide range of opportunities. You will be significantly involved in the further planning and implementation of the model study program in human medicine (according to ÄApprO), as well as in implementing the "clinician" and "advanced clinician scientist" programs, and you will have the opportunity to apply innovative concepts in teaching. At the same time, you will take on a significant role in developing an interconnected, inter/nationally competitive research profile "Medicine for people with disabilities and chronic diseases". For more information, please visit https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/medizin/forschung/profil/.

The call aims at personalities with an already established national and international profile (W3) or at personalities in an early career stage with an already promising profile (W2 TT W3) who can represent the field of expertise in research, teaching, and patient care in its entirety.

The prerequisites are:

• specialist qualification for internal medicine and specialist qualification for internal medicine and pneumology
• specialist additional qualification for internal intensive medicine
• specialist additional qualification for infectiology and specialized diagnostic radiology
• specialist proof of focus for ECMO and telemedicine
• relevant doctorate, and additionally scientific achievements according to § 36 paras. 1; no. 4 HG NRW
• high-ranking (W3) or promisingly (W2 TT W3) scientific achievements reflected in corresponding publications and third-party funding,
• extensive clinical experience in the field of expertise as well as leadership experience
• connectivity to the research profile of the Medical School EWL,
• extensive and innovative teaching experience for the subject to be represented
• experience and active involvement in the equality-oriented promotion of young scientists.

Desirable:

• proof of focus for interventional pulmonary embolism therapy
• proof of focus for interventional endoscopy
• specialist knowledge chest x-ray for adults and children

As holder of this position, you will manage the Clinic for Internal Medicine, Pneumology and Intensive Care Medicine of the EvKB at campus Bielefeld-Bethel (CBB) of the University Medical Center EWL. The clinic has expertise in the entire spectrum of the specialty, particularly in the treatment of chronic and oncological lung diseases as well as in intensive care and respiratory medicine. This focus areas are to be expanded and developed.

The clinic is part of the Center for Internal Medicine and forms, together with the Thoracic Surgery Clinic, the Pulmonary Center. Very close cooperation with other surgical and conservative subjects of the CBB is required, in particular with the University Clinic for Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Transfusion Medicine and Pain Therapy. It is desirable to expand the close networking with main areas of hematology, oncology, neurosurgery, inclusive medicine, the clinics of the Perinatal Center (level 1) and the supra-regional, certified Trauma Center under the direction of the University Clinic of Trauma Surgery.

The establishment and further development of supra-regional centers of excellence for oncological patients and those with diseases of the pulmonary vessels is desired. In intensive care medicine, university expansion of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary support procedures is required. For this, the applicant must have extensive clinical and scientific experience with this technology. The same applies to the intensive medical supervision of patients with oncological, hematological and immunocompromising diseases.

We expect networking with other clinics of the University Medical Center East Westphalia Lippe, other faculties of Bielefeld University, and the medical community in private practice in the region. Accordingly, we are looking for a personality with leadership experience and expertise in the entire field and excellent communication and coordination skills.

The campus Bielefeld-Bethel would like to encourage female candidates, in particular, to apply for this position. Through a family-conscious personnel policy, EvKB promotes a viable balance between personal lifestyle and career. Competent support is provided in arranging childcare places.

For the appeal applies:

A private-law employment contract with the University is envisaged for the performance of the duties of the professorship. The requirements for employment follow § 36 HG. The tasks within patient care, including the right to liquidation, will be regulated via a contract for chief physicians with the Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel gGmbH (EvKB).

The W2 tenure variant is initially limited to five years but designed with a tenure-track option after W3. The removal of the time limit follows within a positive evaluation based on a target agreement – it may be terminated earlier in exceptional cases. Applicants for the W2 tenure-track position must have already developed promising research profiles during their postdoc phase.

Applications from suitable persons with severe disabilities and persons with disabilities of equal status are expressly encouraged. Bielefeld University has received several awards for its successes within equality and is certified as a family-friendly university. The university pursues a committed equal opportunities policy concerning the appointment of professorships, among other things, and would expressly like to invite qualified female applicants to apply. Applications are treated in concert with the State Equality Act. Family times will be considered in the context of the selection decision.

The Medical School EWL and the EvKB consider equality between women and men to be one main task, and the future jobholder will be involved in its implementation. Bielefeld University promotes dual-career couples and supports them in creating a common place of work and life.

Please submit your application by 04.10.2022 via the online appointment portal of Bielefeld University: https://berufungen.uni-bielefeld.de/.

In addition to the usual application documents and information, we ask you to submit each a 2-page teaching and research concept paper and a concept concerning patient care. These concept papers should integrate gender- and diversity-specific content relevant to the advertised professorship. We expect a brief description of your previous and planned gender equality activities, besides, particularly for the promotion of young female scientists and the compatibility of career and family.

Contact:

Bielefeld University
Medical School EWL
The Dean Prof. Dr. med. Claudia Hornberg, Dipl.-Biol., Dipl.-Ökol.
PO Box 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
Phone +49 (0) 521/106-67467 (secretariat Stephanie Heuer)
dekanin.medizin@uni-bielefeld.de

and additionally

Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel
Scientific Director of the v. Bodelschwinghsche Stiftungen Bethel
Prof. Dr. med. Fritz Mertzlufft
Phone +49 (0) 521/77279010
fritz.mertzlufft@evkb.de

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