The Division of General Internal Medicine in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics invite applications for a full-time faculty position with a focus on bioethics and medicine. The successful candidate would have a tenure-track appointment in the Division of General Internal Medicine and a core faculty affiliation in the Berman Institute of Bioethics. We encourage applications from junior and mid-level scholars.
Successful applicants will join thriving communities of scholars within the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Division of General Internal Medicine. The Berman Institute of Bioethics is one of the largest and most highly-regarded bioethics programs in the world and includes scholars with backgrounds in public health, health policy, philosophy, medicine, nursing, social science, biomedical science, global bioethics, and law. Tenure-track faculty of the Berman Institute have appointments in five schools of the University – Public Health, Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, and the School of Advanced International Studies. The School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the country. The Division of General Internal Medicine has more than 75 full-time faculty members who are engaged in a wide-array of clinical, teaching and research activities.
Successful applicants will be expected to participate in an ethics service activity (e.g., serve on an Institutional Review Board, approximately 10% time) and engage in a range of educational activities. These might include teaching a course in the Master of Bioethics Program, leading sessions with medical students and/or residents, and mentoring post-doctoral fellows in bioethics. Maintaining a part-time primary care clinical practice (approximately 20% time) is preferable. Ideal candidates will have a track record of peer-reviewed publication and demonstrated capabilities and/or potential in developing an externally-funded research program.