Senior consultant or specialist physician sought for the Department of Musculoskeletal Radiology, Department of Radiology and Scanning, Rigshospitalet

A position as chief physician or consultant in the Department of Radiology and Scanning, musculoskeletal section, is available for filling on January 1, 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter. A later starting date can be agreed.

Clinic responsibilities and tasks

In the musculoskeletal sector we perform examinations within conventional radiography, CT and MRI scanning. The chief physician/senior consultant participates in the musculoskeletal radiological team and, in collaboration with the other specialists in the section, is responsible for conferences, conventional radiography, CT and MR examinations for the clinical departments affiliated with the musculoskeletal function. The section has a close collaboration with the Orthopedic Clinic and the Rheumatology Center.

Several multidisciplinary conferences are held, including within sarcoma diagnosis and treatment. The section has local, national/ regional, and university functions. Patients are received from across Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland.

The Department of Radiology and Scanning has about 400 staff and performs approximately 440,000 examinations per year. The department is geographically located at both Blegdamsvej and Glostrup. The department collaborates with all bed-based clinics and outpatient departments at Rigshospitalet Blegdamsvej and Glostrup and has all modalities within conventional radiology, MR, CT and ultrasound.

Rigshospitalet’s vision is “to benefit the individual patient and the health service as a whole.” Specifically, this means that in addition to the highest professional quality regarding the individual examination, we look at the patient’s entire course in the health service. You will be asked for advice not only by colleagues in the department but also by colleagues nationally and internationally.

We have a close collaboration with the other radiology departments in the Region of Zealand in the Robust Imaging in the East program and a collaboration agreement with the Greenland Health Service. In this way we contribute in several places in the Danish health service to solving specialized diagnostic and interventional radiology tasks, both scientifically and organizationally. We work strategically with Remote MRI as a tool to ensure equality and proximity in diagnostics.

At the same time you will also work with the latest techniques, including a 3D weight-bearing X-ray system (EOS) for evaluating scoliosis patients and new CT technology. In 2027/28 Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital for Children opens. In collaboration with the Nuclear Medicine and Pathology departments we have established an AI Center DEPICT ( http://depict.dk ) with about 50 associated researchers and students.

The center is the hub for our AI activities with the use and monitoring of AI in the clinic as well as the development of new techniques.

You do not need to have the answer or solution to everything, but as a team and department we can achieve a lot. We focus on a good working environment where everyone has a responsibility to contribute to open and well-functioning collaboration. There are good opportunities for continued personal and professional development, including research and further education.

The musculoskeletal team is located in the North Wing, where the Diagnostic Neuroradiology Section and Neuroradiology Interventions are also located. The musculoskeletal section maintains close cooperation with Rigshospitalet’s Level 1 Trauma Center and with the clinical departments in the HovedOrtoCentret.

The chief physician or consultant, together with the other doctors in the section, will provide teaching of younger doctors (main residency candidates and introductory doctors), radiographers and students. The section has extensive research collaboration. There are good opportunities for continued personal and professional development, including research and continuing education.

Qualifications

Applicants for the chief physician position must be specialists in radiology with documented experience in musculoskeletal radiology, including documented experience in sarcoma diagnostics and pediatric rheumatology. Emphasis is placed on having good collaboration skills and research experience.

Applicants for the consultant position must be specialists in radiology with an interest in musculoskeletal radiology. Emphasis is placed on having good collaboration skills and research interest. There will be opportunities for training, depending on qualifications.

Attendance

The chief physician has a role in the musculoskeletal team at Rigshospitalet. As a rule, the chief physician attends 4 days a week on the Blegdamsvej campus and 1 day a week on the Glostrup campus.

The consultant has a role in the musculoskeletal team with presence primarily at Rigshospitalet Blegdamsvej. On par with the other doctors in the team, there will, to a more limited extent, also be presence on the Glostrup campus.

On-call

The consultant position is generally included in the 24/7 trauma on-call duty at Blegdamsvej, on par with the other trauma-duty doctors. The chief physician position is generally without on-call duty.

Reference

The position refers to the operations manager chief physician in the musculoskeletal section at Blegdamsvej and to the head physician.

Further information about the position can be obtained from

Operations Manager Chief Physician in the musculoskeletal section Nicolai Stefan Kaltoft at email: [email protected] or Chief Physician Martin Lundsgaard Hansen at email: [email protected]

Application deadline: November 15, 2026.

The application

The application must include a specialist physician authorization and CV.

It should be clearly stated in the application whether you are applying for a specialist physician or chief physician position. The assessment of the applicants’ professional qualifications will be based on the applicants’ own information within each of the seven competence areas; “Medical Expert, Collaboration, Communicator, Leader and Administrator, Scholar, Health Promoter and Professional,” cf. the guidelines for professional assessment of applicants for chief physician positions in the Region Capital for 2007, which can be seen at www.regionh.dk

About the Diagnostic Center

The Diagnostic Center is one of Rigshospitalet’s eight centers with about 1,600 employees and an annual turnover of DKK 900 million. Core services are diagnostics and patient treatment, education and research. The Diagnostic Center supports patient care by annually producing more than 8.5 million laboratory answers, more than 250,000 radiological examinations, and has more than 800,000 contacts with patients and donors. The center’s 25 professors and other researchers publish annually more than 500 scientific articles in internationally recognized journals.

The center includes the Department of Radiology and Scanning, the Department of Clinical Physiology, and Nuclear Medicine, the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, the Department of Pathology, the Department of Clinical Immunology, the Department of Clinical Microbiology, the Department of Genetics, the Department of Genomic Medicine, the Medical Research Library and the Danish Institute for External Quality Assurance for Laboratories in the Health Sector (DEKS).

Salary and employment terms

For chief physicians : In accordance with the collective agreement for chief physicians - collective agreement 33.04.1

For consultants : In accordance with the collective agreement for subordinate doctors - collective agreement 33.06.1