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Become our new Du Boulay Professor

Application for 2020 Du Boulay Professorship

British Society of Neuroradiologists/Royal College of Radiologists Du Boulay Professorship
Background
This visiting Professorship is jointly funded by the RCR and BSNR in memory of Professor George Du Boulay who was a pioneering academic neuroradiologist and a founding member of the Society

Nature
The visiting Professor will be expected to visit 6 radiology centres and training schemes across the UK, and deliver a minimum half-day educational programme at each. One lecture will be filmed either during a visit or separately and then be made available online. The purpose of the visits is to highlight the role of neuroradiology in the advancement of neuroimaging, promote neuroradiology and particularly academic neuroradiology careers, and provide expert neuroradiology teaching at the centres visited.

Funding
Up to £3,000 to cover expenses

Eligibility
The Professorship is open to neuroradiologists who are BSNR members and Fellows of the RCR in good standing, resident in the United Kingdom and in active clinical practice at the time of the application and tenure of the award.

To apply
Applicants should submit: a current curriculum vitae; a 200-400 word statement describing the reasons for applying, contribution to the role, and proposed educational programme and content for the Professorship. Joint applications from two individuals wishing to undertake the Professorship together over a period of two years will also be considered.

An Appointments Board comprising BSNR and RCR members will consider applications. In assessing applications, significant weighting will be given to the applicant’s plan for the programme.
The decision of the Appointments Board is final and binding, applicants will be informed of the outcome as soon as possible after the decision has been approved.

For informal enquiries and further details regarding the post, please contact BSNR Academic subcommittee chair, Professor A Waldman: adam.waldman@ed.ac.uk

Applications should be sent to Sarah Coulson QATraining@rcr.ac.uk at the Royal College of Radiologists to arrive no later than 5pm on Friday 26th April 2019. Interviews will be held in London on Monday 17th June and the award will be announced within two weeks.

Tenure of the award will be one year (two years for a joint appointment), and will commence at the BSNR AGM during the annual meeting in Cardiff 9 – 11 October 2019.

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