INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES FOR THE POSITION OF DIRECTOR (DEAN), ANU MEDICAL SCHOOL ANU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, BIOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT Closing Date: 12 October 2016 CONTENTS Message from the Vice-Chancellor 3 About the ANU Medical School 4 The Australian National University - Overview 6 University Colleges 7 Organisational Structure 8 Quick Statistics 9 The role of Director (Dean), ANU Medical School 10 Selection Criteria 11 Application Information 12 Why choose Canberra 13 2 MESSAGE FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR Since its founding 70 years ago The Australian National University (ANU) has led the nation in delivering research that has changed the world. We have helped the nation create inspired programs and public policy that has improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Australia and the region. And we have done this while providing our students with an education that is second to none. Many of the world’s finest researchers, most exemplary teachers and alumni who have become leaders in international governments, public service and businesses have once called ANU home. It is and has always been an exciting place to be. It is a place where people come to learn how to change the world. All great nations need a great university and ANU provides Australia with a university that is equal to the great universities of the world. A centre of learning and research that sits at the forefront of international scholarship. The University is set in beautiful grounds close to the heart of the national capital city of Canberra and Parliament House. As the national university, our researchers have a special relationship with the Commonwealth Government, providing expert advice to Australia’s leaders and decision makers, to ensure the advancement of the Australian nation. So it gives me great pleasure to introduce ANU to you. As a prospective candidate for the Director, ANU Medical School you have a great opportunity to join our community. To keep delivering on the vision of the University, we need the best staff to accompany us on the journey. We are seeking bright and talented people to join us as we work hard to retain our place among the world's greatest universities. We are looking for people who find true joy in research, in following an idea to see where it will lead because it is exciting. For teachers who know what it is to truly inspire others, who take huge satisfaction in the moments where students finally understand a difficult concept or solve a great problem. We seek people with passion, who want to go beyond established boundaries and forge new paths to the future. So if you would like the opportunity to be extraordinary, then ANU will nurture you to achieve your potential. I look forward to receiving your application. For more information on our Vice-Chancellor's vision for the University, please click on the link below: http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/a-vision-for-the-future Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC Vice-Chancellor and President 3 ABOUT THE ANU MEDICAL SCHOOL The ANU Medical School is committed to providing an The ANU Medical School is the only medical school in environment that fosters excellence and creativity in our Canberra and it enjoys partnerships with the Canberra future doctors, health professionals, clinical researchers Hospital and Calvary Hospital, regional hospitals and and educators. numerous general practices in the ACT and neighbouring regions of NSW, providing early and regular access to The School has helped drive the development of first class clinical teaching facilities for MChD students. health services in the ACT, improving medical care for the community and the region. The School continues to attract The Rural Clinical School organises placements for all eminent medical researchers and educators to the region as students to undertake experiential learning and practice in well as medical practitioners from right across all specialties regional, rural and remote healthcare facilities throughout who see the presence of a medical school in the city as the course. The Rural Health Stream further provides year being important in their decision to practice here. 3 students with the opportunity for a year long integrated longitudinal clerkship in rural South East New South Wales. The integrated curriculum in the fully accredited four- The Indigenous Health Stream provides opportunity for year Doctor of Medicine and Surgery (MChD) program students to undertake enrichment activities and a range of incorporates four themes: Medical Sciences, Clinical Skills, placements in Indigenous healthcare settings, including a Population Health, and Professionalism and Leadership. six week placement in the Northern Territory. Contextual frameworks are interwoven throughout these themes to provide graduates with a working knowledge of social foundations of medicine, Indigenous health, rural and remote Australian health, and research. Over 400 staff teach into the program, including hospital and community-based clinicians as well as leading researchers from the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment. The School has a reputation for educational excellence and innovation, with individuals and programs winners of national awards. 4 ABOUT THE ANU MEDICAL SCHOOL Purpose The ANU Medical School seeks to create and maintain an educational environment that encourages students to: • Practice medicine with compassion, conscience and professional excellence; • Extend the boundaries of medical knowledge through research and share this knowledge with patients and colleagues, locally, nationally and internationally; • Understand the health problems of people in rural and remote Australia; • Acquire and demonstrate knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and societies. Find out more • History • Teaching Location • Partnerships 5 THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Overview The Australian National University (ANU) is one of the world’s foremost research universities. Distinguished by its relentless pursuit of excellence, ANU attracts leading academics and outstanding students from Australia and around the world. History The Nation's Research Institution ANU was established by the Commonwealth Parliament in ANU is formally recognised as the specially-charted national 1946 specifically to lead the development of the intellectual university. As such, it receives exclusive funding from the capacity of the nation through research and research training Australian Government to support high-level research within in line with the best international standards. It is the only all of its Colleges, which in turn offers postdoctoral fellows, Australian university established by a Commonwealth Act postgraduate and undergraduate students with a unique of Parliament. In 1960, ANU accepted responsibility for opportunity to engage in a research-led education. undergraduate education along with an expectation that the As an employee of ANU, you have an exclusive opportunity highest standards of education would be achieved. to be part of an institution that advances and enhances Australia’s intellectual and creative capacity. Partnerships ANU has strong links with leading research institutions in Australia and overseas. It is a founding member of the International Alliance of Research Universities, a co-operative network of 10 eminent international research-intensive universities which includes: > University of Cambridge; > University of Oxford; > University of California, Berkeley; > Yale University; > Peking University; > National University of Singapore; > University of Tokyo; > University of Copenhagen; > University of Cape Town; and > ETH Zurich. 6 THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY University Colleges ANU has seven colleges, each made up of ANU College of Engineering & the research and education schools and Computer Science centres that contribute to the various broad The ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science disciplines. (CECS) comprises the Research School of Engineering and the Research School of Computer Science. It offers undergraduate The ANU Colleges link research and teaching at degrees in engineering, information technology and computer undergraduate, postgraduate and higher degree levels. They science along with masters and doctoral postgraduate undertake world-class research, and provide education programs. The College undertakes basic and applied research programs at the highest standards. The University recognises in information and communications technologies, materials and the need to strengthen strategic planning, align administrative manufacturing, formal methods and logic, machine learning support with these plans and ensure consistency of policy and vision, robotics and energy systems. and procedure. The aim of the college structure is to promote cecs.anu.edu.au and formalise cooperation among the different contributors to disciplines in ANU and to remove barriers in their path. ANU College of Law anu.edu.au/admin/ANUColleges/index.php The ANU College of Law (CoL) is Australia’s national law school, committed to legal education and research at the highest level, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific and to striving for continuous improvement in the law for the benefit of national and international communities. The College The ANU College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP) hosts the offers LLBHons, LLM, Juris Doctor, Graduate Diploma of largest assembly of scholars dedicated to working on Asia Legal Practice and Migration Law program through the Legal and the Pacific in the English-speaking