Vacancy title:
Infectious Disease Fellow

Jobs at:
The Aga Khan University (AKU)

Deadline of this Job:
not later than 24th February 2017.

Duty Station:
Nairobi

Job details:
The Aga Khan University (AKU) is a private, not for profit, international University first established in 1983, with ll teaching sites in eight countries.

Infectious disease fellow

The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi , Faculty of Health Sciences is hiring an Infectious Disease Fellow. The successful candidate will have a duo reportlrig to the Director and Associate Director, Infectious Disease Fellowship.
The infectious disease fellowship is a sub-specialty training program for people who have already completed residency training in internal medicine. It is modeled after North American programs using the IDSA template and adapted for an East African context. In addition to the Nairobi-based experience, there is also 4 months of training at the University of British. Columbia in Canada. The program is for at least 2 years and includes extensive inpatient and outpatient supervised clinical experience. An optional 3rd year research—oriented year may be available, depending on the availability of funding. The graduating fellows will have expertise at the subspecialty level in the broad range of infectious diseases, including complicated HIV infection, antimicrobial usage and stewardship, infection control, TB, consultation for a wide variety of complicated inpatient and outpatient infections. The fellow will also do a clinical research project which should be submitted for publication prior to completion of the program.

Clinical work that is part of the responsibilities of ID training as per curriculum, including but not limited to

• Inpatient ID clinical service
  
• Inpatient ID consultations (under ID faculty supervision) on patients from Medicine and other clinical services, such as Pediatrics and Surgery
  
• Outpatient as per the curriculum, such as HIV, hepatitis, travel, TB, Microbiology laboratory
  
• External rotations as per curriculum
  
• Teaching of residents and other trainees
  
• Active participation in both internal and external ID — related seminars and conferences
  
• Research to include submission of manuscript(s) for publication
  
• Participation in ID-related committees, such as infection control, antimicrobial stewardship

Requirements

• Master in medicine or equivalent postgraduate course
  
• Registration by the Medical governing body

Personal attributes

• Good communication skills
  
• A good team player
  
• A learner who demonstrates good study habits
  
• Demonstrate honesty, integrity, compassion and respect for diversity and applies ethical principles appropriately
  
• Seeks and accepts advise and adheres to deadline

Job application procedure
How to apply To formally submit your application please send an updated CV and testimonials, including the names, postal and e-mall addresses, telephone/fax numbers of two professional references to hr.medicalcollege@aku.edu or post your application to Aga Khan University, P.O. Box 39340 – 00623 Nairobi not later than 24th February 2017.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

For more details on the role kindly review the role on our website. www.aku.edu/vacancies