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Job Posting: Senior Associate Dean, Cape Breton Medical Campus

Dalhousie University is seeking a Senior Associate Dean to provide academic, financial, administrative, and strategic leadership for Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine’s Cape Breton Medical Campus in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

The Senior Associate Dean, Cape Breton Medical Campus (CBMC) will report to the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, for all matters related to the execution of the academic mission of the CBMC, and to both the President of CBU and the Dean of Dalhousie’s Faculty of Medicine for non-academic matters advancing CBMC’s strategic mission.

The Senior Associate Dean, CBMC, is the representative, agent, and spokesperson for Dalhousie’s Faculty of Medicine in Cape Breton. The Senior Associate Dean receives guidance from the governing bodies of the CBMC, the Steering Committee Co-Chairs, and other CBMC leads. The Senior Associate Dean, CBMC will be responsible to advance the vision, mission, and objectives of the CBMC and ensure operational readiness before the arrival of the first cohort of learners in August 2025. Once the campus begins teaching students, the Senior Associate Dean will oversee the execution of the undergraduate medical education program at the CBMC working in collaboration with Dalhousie’s Faculty of Medicine Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education (UGME).

This is a five-year, renewable term with a continuing academic appointment in the department. The Senior Associate Dean position is subject to renewal for a second five-year term, conditional on satisfactory annual performance evaluations and a positive review of the first term as Senior Associate Dean.

For the full job description, and application information, please visit here.

Interested in Teaching at CBMC?

If you’re a physician who is interested in teaching at CBMC, please fill out the following survey to specify how you’d like to become involved:

Submit Your Abstract: Collaborative Approaches to Healthy Rural Communities Conference

Cape Breton University in partnership with Nova Scotia Health is inviting abstracts focused on health research in rural communities, as we build a robust program for CBU’s 2024 health research conference. We are inviting health and medical professionals to share research across five key themes, as outlined in the call for abstracts below.

Click here to review the details: Call for Abstracts  (https://www.cbu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Call-for-Abstracts-Collaborative-Approaches-to-Healthy-Rural-Communities_May-8-2024.pdf)

The theme for this year’s event is Collaborative Approaches to Healthy Rural Communities and will be held at the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre, October 17, 18 and 19, 2024. Registration details are coming soon! Visit the webpage for updates: Health Research Conference 2024 - Cape Breton University (cbu.ca) 

Continued Engagement

Engagement sessions continue across the province, with Dr. David Anderson, Dean of Dalhousie Medicine, and Dr. Jennifer Hall, Associate Professor, Special Project Advisor, visiting Cape Breton June 25-26 to hold meetings with the Departments of Family Medicine, Pediatrics and Obstetrics/Gynecology along with NSH Medical Education Leadership. Additional meetings were held to review Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships, logistics and infrastructure.

Dr. Kevin Orrell, Dr. Susan MacLeod and Dr. Jim MacKillop will continue individual outreach to physicians regarding teaching opportunities at CBMC over the summer months. If you would like to connect with the team, please contact cbmc@cbu.ca