Clinical Teaching Fellow

**Salary**: £33,966 per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

**Closing Date**: 18 June 2024

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for three clinical teaching fellows to join the team in Malaysia delivering education to medical students at NUMed. To be eligible you need to be a medical practitioner who is registered with one or both of the GMC (General Medical Council) or the MMC (Malaysian Medical Council), and have either a minimum of three years post-first degree qualification experience, or have two years’ experience and successful completion of a Master’s degree. In practice this means that by August 2024 you must have completed the UK Foundation programme (or equivalent) plus have completed at least one additional year of post graduate experience; or have completed the UK Foundation programme (or equivalent) and have successfully completed a Master’s degree; or have completed the UK Foundation programme (or equivalent), have completed at least one additional year of post graduate experience and have successfully completed a Master’s degree.

You need to wish to develop expertise in undergraduate medical teaching in an international setting. The post will be hosted by Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia on their campus and at associated clinical facilities within Johor, Malaysia as part of the clinical teaching faculty of NUMed.

You can choose whether to take the clinical teaching fellow posts for one or two years. Malaysian visa rules require that at the start of the post (August 2024) you either have a minimum of three years post-first degree qualification experience, or have two years’ experience and successful completion of a Master’s degree.

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Key Accountabilities To provide the Clinical Teaching Fellow with experience and academic training in developing and delivering clinical teaching, To deliver excellent teaching to undergraduate medical students at NUMed Malaysia within the campus and associated clinical facilities throughout Johor, Malaysia.

Teaching The successful applicants will be part of a team of clinical teaching fellows who make an important contribution to developing, coordinating and delivering the undergraduate teaching programme at NUMed, The posts will provide teaching to undergraduate medical students on campus and within associated clinical facilities throughout Johor, Malaysia for NUMed Malaysia. There are currently around 800 students enrolled in total, with an intake of approximately 140-150 medical students per year, You would predominantly teach small groups in the classroom or clinical skills room, as well as providing pastoral support and academic mentoring to students, You would be expected to develop personal teaching and educational skills.

Remuneration

The Person

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential Computer literate, Good communication skills.

Desirable Evidence of educational achievement and progression, Teaching experience, Good team working.

Attributes and Behaviour Ability to respond enthusiastically and positively to students, Demonstrable willingness to work collaboratively with colleagues as part of a team, Sensitivity to the views of others, Enthusiasm for the task in hand, Must be willing to work flexibly according to teaching workload.

Qualifications By August 2024, have successfully completion the UK Foundation programme or equivalent, By August 2024 have either: completed a minimum of three years post -first degree qualification experience, or have completed two years post-qualification experience and have a Master’s degree, Medical practitioner who is registered with one or both of the GMC (General Medical Council) or the MMC (Malaysian Medical Council).

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