Specialist in the Department of Urinary Tract Surgery, Center for Cancer and Organ Diseases, Rigshospitalet

At the Department of Urinary Tract Surgery, UR/KIR, CKO, Rigshospitalet, there is a position as a specialist physician with primary affiliation to the prostate team, available 1 March 2027.

Department of Urinary Tract Surgery

The department currently has an elective main function, regional function and highly specialized function in the Capital Region in collaboration with the region's other department. The department has an acute function for “own” patients. As part of the regional function and highly specialized function, patients from all of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland are admitted.

The clinic handles nephron and kidney procurement, isolated or in connection with multi-organ procurement, live kidney donation as well as kidney transplantation, including preparatory and follow-up urological surgery for Eastern Denmark. The clinic conducts about 30,000 outpatient visits and performs more than 7,000 procedures annually, both open and laparoscopic, spread over 16 operating shifts per week.

Staffing and on-call structure

The department is led by a chief physician and a chief nurse. In addition, two head nurses and a leading secretary. The department is divided into 4 multidisciplinary teams, where each team has a medical lead and a key person and a multidisciplinary key person. Bed units and outpatient clinic are thus integrated into the four teams.

The department currently employs 9 senior physicians (including 1 professor and 1 chief physician), 6 specialists and 14 doctors in training (level 1/2). The newly hired specialist will participate in on-call duties from home on par with the other clinicians who participate in the on-call rotation.

Research

The newly hired specialist is expected to have research experience and actively participate in the department’s research and development projects, thereby contributing to the signaling of the clinic’s research profile in close collaboration with the department’s research unit.

Teaching and educational obligations

Undergraduate medical education. The department’s doctors participate in teaching medical students at bachelor’s and master’s levels.

Postgraduate medical education. The department functions as an educational department in urology. The specialist is expected to participate in the education and guidance of doctors in the main training program.

Other teaching. The specialist is expected to participate in the department’s internal teaching. The department participates in teaching and training of nursing staff and secretaries.

Qualifications

The position is intended for a specialist in urology who, in addition to being broadly anchored in urology, has knowledge of diagnostic work-up and treatment of prostate cancer and a desire to join the prostate team and provide treatment at a highly specialized level. A candidate with a research emphasis is preferred, preferably PhD. The candidate must have experience in open, endoscopic and robot-assisted surgery.

In addition, it is a requirement that the candidate has the opportunity to participate in a fellowship in prostate cancer and, in time, acquire competence in organ donation.

Salary and employment terms.

Salary and employment terms in accordance with the joint academic agreement with associated organizational agreement for specialists between the Regions of Denmark and the Central Organization of Academics/Association of Young Doctors.

The position is associated with on-call obligations.

The application

Applications should be prepared with reference to the Health Authority’s new description of the seven roles of the specialist:

• Medical decision maker
• Relationship builder
• Learning-oriented
• Developer
• Leader
• Societal-oriented
• Professional

The application should include a copy of the specialist authorization, curriculum vitae including a list of publications.

Applications are to be submitted electronically via the link on this page and must be received no later than 1 November 2026.

Interviews will be held on 9 November 2026.

Further information about the position can be obtained by contacting Chief Physician Mikael Aagaard, tel.: 35451095. Email: [email protected]

Interested individuals of all ages, genders, religions and ethnic backgrounds are encouraged to apply for the position.

Rigshospitalet is a smoke-free hospital.

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