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Senior Assistant, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Entity

Medical College

Location

Karachi, Pakistan

Introduction

The Aga Khan University was found in 1983 as Pakistan’s first private university, Aga Khan University is a not-for-profit institution and an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. Starting in 2000, the University expanded to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom and Afghanistan. AKU began life as a health-sciences university.

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Aga Khan University is a unique/distinguish establishment which serves the clinical laboratory of Aga Khan University Hospital with academic interest. This department is heavily engaged in undergraduate, postgraduate and technologist training programs. It provides professional training for higher degree in four major areas of Pathology (Chemical Pathology, Hematology, Histopathology, and Microbiology). Currently, there are approximately 61 Faculty, including 3 part time, 2 visiting faculty members, and 41 Residents.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for:

  • administrating and coordinating of Undergraduate (all five years) Medical education activities.
  • managing and coordinate the logistics of all examination which includes bookkeeping of venues, transportation, invigilators selections, external and internal examiners for examination of MBBA IA & IB
  • maintaining and managing the records of evaluation of UG teaching activities for the faculty personnel file and department purpose
  • managing the Pathology session of year III, IV and V with mutual correspondence with other departments and faculty. Making of teaching slips for module which includes LCFs and Lab sessions of year I and II and arrange its logistics
  • assisting the departmental question review committee to provide the administrative support to enhance the quality questions submission in exam cell for MBBS examination and submission of questions to Exam cell after approval from question review committee
  • sending the names of PBL facilitators, module members to the curriculum office after discussing it with Director education
  • directly corresponding with Department of Education Development (DED) for scheduling of examination, Education related meeting, Examination result and educational course.
  • dealing the education related queries of faculty, residents and students
  • timely providing information to faculties regarding LCFs sessions, PBL facilitation, Lab sessions, 
  • module and facilitators meeting and any other educational activities in the department through emails, calendars, and personal diaries.
  • assisting the Department of Forensic Medicine which includes booking of venues and transportations of fields visit of students to Dow medical College
  • maintaining the equipment in Forensic Medicine Lab located in ADH
  • preparing all the results of Forensic Medicine and logistics of Conducting examination coordination with DED.
  • complying with any other job assigned by the director Education/ Manager.

Requirements

You should have:

  • Graduate degree, Masters will be preferred.
  • 1-2 years of relevant experience
  • good interpersonal skills
  • proficient in use of Computer packages e.g., MS Office
  • ability to meet tight deadlines
  • good English writing skills including the ability to prepare minutes of the meeting

To Apply

You should send your detailed CV by emailing to human.resources@aku.edu. Please mark the subject line with the position number “10007318”.

Applications should be submitted latest by August 20, 2022