Professorship in Emergency Medicine (open rank: Assistant Professorship Tenure Track, Extraordinary, Ordinary)

The University Clinic for Emergency Medicine ensures the emergency medical care of over 55,000 emergency patients annually and works closely with the referring parties in the catchment area and the interdisciplinary partner clinics of the Insel Group.

Professorship in Emergency Medicine (open rank: Assistant Professorship Tenure Track, Extraordinary, Ordinary) combined with the position of Director and Chief Physician of the University Clinic for Emergency Medicine

immediate or by arrangement.

The new incumbent brings several years of experience in leadership roles in a larger interdisciplinary university emergency medicine setting and can demonstrate broad clinical experience in emergency medicine, shock room, and polytrauma management. They should represent the discipline excellently in clinical practice, science, and teaching, network, strengthen, and further develop academic emergency medicine in the clinic, in education, further training, continuing education, and research.
The position is to be filled by an internationally recognised and networked personality with a proven research profile in clinical emergency medicine and talent for innovation as well as a pronounced interdisciplinary and interprofessional orientation. Regular publication activity and successful acquisition of competitive third-party funding are prerequisites.

You are an excellent emergency physician with a proven specialisation in clinical emergency medicine. You hold a recognised specialist title in a field relevant to clinical emergency medicine (e.g. General Internal Medicine, Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine, or Surgery) as well as the specialist title in clinical emergency medicine (SIWF) or an internationally equivalent qualification. Furthermore, you have an understanding of the Swiss healthcare system (including the training system) and the spectrum/competencies of the medical disciplines in Switzerland. You aim for good local-regional networking with the referrers.
Management, leadership, and organisational experience at university, interdisciplinary, and interprofessional levels with corresponding business and health system knowledge are essential. Excellent communication and social skills are expected. You have good German and French language skills or are willing to acquire them. Additionally, you actively support the implementation of measures for equal opportunities and diversity.
A habilitation or an equivalent academic achievement record is required. Furthermore, proof of innovative and interprofessional teaching and learning concepts as well as strong commitment to promoting junior staff and equal opportunities is expected.

The University of Bern is committed to equal opportunities, diversity, and inclusion and strives for a diverse composition of its staff. It welcomes applications from persons of all genders and particularly encourages qualified female scientists to apply. The University of Bern offers various services in the area of work-family/partnership compatibility. These include, among others, childcare services, offers for partners, and the possibility of job sharing ( www.vereinbarkeit.unibe.ch ). Job sharing applications are welcome; a joint concept for collaboration must be included in the application documents.


Further information is available from the Chairwoman of the Appointment Committee, Prof. Dr. med. Britta Maurer, Director and Chief Physician, University Clinic for Rheumatology and Immunology, Inselspital (Email: britta.maurer@insel.ch ).
Applications must be submitted exclusively electronically to the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bern by 18 November 2026 via the following link: https://www.recruiting.medizin.unibe.ch/positiondetails/14352394


A selection symposium in Bern is expected to take place on 3/4 February 2027.
Further information regarding required documents can be found at https://www.medizin.unibe.ch/research/academic_career_paths/professorship/index_eng.html

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