- Reference: 2506
- Application deadline: 01-06-2025
Breaking grounds as a clinical fellow
UZ Leuven pursues absolute leadership in its three key areas: patient care, training and research. We play a leading role both in Belgium and throughout Europe and seek to maintain and develop this in the future. Every day more than 9,000 committed staff contribute all their skills to achieve that goal. UZ Leuven was the first hospital in Belgium to receive the international JCI label for safety and quality of care and is now centrally involved in establishing new national quality guidelines.
The sleep center at UZ Leuven offers a comprehensive and advanced approach to diagnosing and treating sleep disorders. It has 11 fully equipped rooms for full-polysomnography with video monitoring. In addition, the sleep center plays an important role as a home ventilation center for patients with respiratory failure.
The sleep center aims to provide the best possible care to all patients and has a strong multidisciplinary team of experienced clinicians with extensive expertise. We want to be among the top centers for Sleep Medicine care by excelling in the fields of patient care, university education and scientific research. In this context, the department of Pulmonology has a vacancy for a clinical fellow in the field of Sleep Medicine.
How will you break grounds?
As a clinical fellow at the Sleep center, your clinical work focusses on the treatment of patients with different types of sleep disorders, including sleep-related breathing disorders, hypersomnia, insomnia and parasomnia and patients with chronic respiratory failure. The position is based on three pillars:
- Clinical care: you will be enrolled in the clinical activities of the sleep center, including the interpretation and scoring of polysomnography, polygraphy, activity monitoring, multiple sleep latency tests and maintenance of wakefulness tests.
- Clinical scientific research: you have an interest in scientific research and wish to make an active contribution to it.
- Education and training: You are willing to provide training to residents in Pulmonology and medical students.
What do you need?
- You obtained a recognized degree in Belgium/European Union as a medical doctor and specialist in Pulmonology/Neurology.
- Language requirements: Dutch (B1).
What do you get in return?
- A challenging position in an exciting and complex university hospital environment with many development opportunities at a professional level.
- Within UZ Leuven, you will work in an employee status.
Ready to break grounds?
Send your application letter with extensive curriculum vitae, mentioning the title and reference number of the vacancy (2506), before 01/06/2025 to UZ Leuven, General Management, attn. the Chief Medical Officer prof. G. Van Assche, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven or by e-mail to gert.vanassche@uzleuven.be.