Are you up for a year filled with more job satisfaction, deeper engagement, and plenty of neurology?

We promise you an exciting and different year, where you will gain plenty of clinical experience, collegial camaraderie and opportunities for professional development!

What you get with us

As a resident in the Department of Brain and Spinal Cord Injury, you will become part of a highly specialized environment where we work with some of the country's most complex patients. Among other things you will:

• Become proficient in consciousness assessment and treatment of multiply injured neurological patients
• Handle patients directly from the intensive care unit, including many with rare neurological conditions
• Understand the nervous system's influence on a wide range of organ systems
• Dive into pain management, spasticity treatment and rehabilitation of spinal cord injury and brain injury
• Gain experience that strengthens your CV and qualifies you for a senior doctor position in neurology – in all 7 physician roles
• Be part of a collegial community with sparring, lunch arrangement and after-work socializing
• Opportunity to participate in research

About the position

We are seeking a resident with completed KBU – preferably with an I-position in neurology or experience from internal medicine. We emphasize good humor, team spirit and the desire to build something new together.

Your daily work will consist of

• Ward rounds, patient meetings and conversations with relatives
• Close collaboration in a small medical team where you will get to know your colleagues really well
• Interdisciplinary collaboration with skilled specialists from other disciplines

You will participate in a 10-shift evening/night duty .

Professional development

• We collaborate closely with neuroanesthesia, the pediatric department and the neurosurgical department at Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej
• We have weekly interdisciplinary teaching, teaching for doctors several times a month and participate in paraclinical conferences with radiologists and microbiologists
• You will have ample opportunity to engage in teaching, research and development projects – a highly prioritized area for us

About the department

The Department of Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries is part of Rigshospitalet's Neuro Center and is located in the new Bodil Eskesen Center in Glostrup.

• We have 87 beds and will open more in 2027
• We have beds for 4 children and 2 beds for patients with cuffed tracheal tubes
• Patients are often newly transferred from intensive care and typically have a course of 14 days to 3 months
• We perform intrathecal baclofen testing and adjust ventriculoperitoneal shunts.
• We receive spinal cord injury patients from across Eastern Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland and follow them lifelong
• In the outpatient clinic we assess patients with newly acquired brain injury, including rehabilitation plans and follow-up The department is a knowledge- and research-strong environment, currently housing a professorship, senior lecturers, two postdocs and several PhD students.

Practical information

• The position is desired to be filled by January 1, 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter
• Application deadline: Monday, November 30, 2026
• Interviews are held on an ongoing basis
• Employment is in accordance with the current collective agreement between the Association of Young Doctors and Danish Regions and is subject to obtaining a child protection certificate

Contact

Would you like to know more?

Contact

• Chief Consultant Charlotte Rath, tel. 4051 5945
• Resident Mikkel Frederiksen, tel. 2015 3819