Associate Professor / Professor (CCS+D)

Centre for Clinician-Scientist Plus Development (CCS+D)

The SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) draws on the collective strengths of SingHealth and Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) to drive the transformation of healthcare and provide affordable, accessible and quality care to patients.

The Centre for Clinician-Scientist+ Development (CCS+D) supports the research pillar of academic medicine in SingHealth Duke-NUS AMC by nurturing aspiring and talented clinicians with passion and interest in research, including clinician scientists, clinician investigators and clinician innovators. The Centre provides support at the developmental stage of their research career, through personalised consultations and structured training geared towards improving research and leadership skills.

Job Description

CCS+D is inviting applications from experienced faculty experts and medical researchers who can nurture SingHealth clinicians with passion and interests in research and innovation. The responsibilities will include but not limited to the following: -

• Provide grantsmanship advisory & consultations with clinicians to improve their chances of success in obtaining research grant funding. General discussions with clinicians would involve their research themes, research hypothesis formulation, types of grant funding targeted and strategies to achieve their research/innovation career goals.
• Detailed grantsmanship guidance for clinicians’ grant applications which include the following aspects:
  • Evaluating the importance of the research questions
  • Evaluating the feasibility of the study designs and research plans
  • Improving the storytelling and organization of writing to ensure well-flowing content
  • Training clinician researchers in presentation skills
  • Providing advice regarding research methodologies and statistical analysis plans
  • Supervising rebuttals to grant reviewers’ comments
  • Supervising interview preparation including mock interviews
• Provide individualised research career advisory to aspiring clinician-researchers in collaboration with the Centre’s Director and principal lead faculty members.
• Serve as a speaker at research workshops or seminars organised by the Centre.
• Be part of the internal grant review committee to assess the suitability of pilot research studies for funding.
• Teaching research methodologies to clinicians and medical students. Although this is not a primary role of this position, teaching tasks may be required from time to time.

Job Requirements

• Recognised medical or PhD Degree.
• Has excellent track record of research accomplishments- demonstrated by having a high number of publications, multiple national grants achieved and experience serving on national grant review panels.
• Dedicated in nurturing aspiring clinicians for promoting academic medicine and research.
• Self-motivated and proactive in guiding and supervising clinicians to frame competitive translational and clinical research, to forge the pathways from bench discoveries to bedside applications. (Note: Developing independent research work is not a requirement for this role)
• Able to work with clinicians across different disciplines on research proposal writing for research topics based on general medical knowledge but not specific expertise.
• Possess strong logical and analytical thinking abilities as well as verbal communications and interpersonal skills with excellent scientific writing and presentation style.
• Strong attention to details and able to write succinctly and logically.
• Able to adapt and thrive in a constantly evolving work environment.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

** This is a full-time position based at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore.