Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - Emergency​/Critical Care Medicine

About the Job

The Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine invites applicants for a full‑time, contract (clinical track) faculty position in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine.

The successful candidate will join an established group consisting of four full‑time faculty criticalists, residents and interns in our well‑equipped emergency service and intensive care unit. Contract faculty are assigned approximately 75% clinical service and teaching, 10‑15% didactic effort and 10‑15% additional effort which may include research or other professional service. Responsibilities in the Veterinary Medical Center (VMC) will include providing excellent specialty‑level patient care in collaboration with other specialists and emergency veterinarians;

deliver high quality clinical student education, supervise interns and residents, support clinical research trials; and provide consultations to internal teams and local veterinarians in order to ensure a high standard of patient care delivery, client service and referral support. The successful candidate is expected to model professionalism, courtesy and collaboration in order to foster a healthy workplace culture that is conducive to clinical, academic and educational achievement.

Adherence to university, college, VMC and departmental policies, procedures and guidelines is also an expectation.

Clinical service and teaching require an in‑person presence. Other responsibilities offer the opportunity for hybrid work.

75% - Clinical Service/Clinical Teaching:

• Serve an integral role in the diagnosis, management and treatment of inpatient and outpatient ECC cases
• Provide clinical instruction and evaluation of veterinary students
• Have a strong interest in building the service's caseload
• Occasional weekend and university holiday coverage in a shared rotation with other ECC faculty
• Perform case management and support the daily functioning of clinical service operations
• Provide supervisory oversight and mentor interns and ECC residents in the service through management of clinical cases, rounds, seminars and journal club activities
• Provide telephone consultations to referring veterinarians

25% - Didactic Teaching, Research, Outreach/Service:

Didactic Teaching:

This position will contribute to the development and delivery of didactic instruction across all four years of the veterinary curriculum. Didactic teaching is expected to emphasize outcome‑based, student‑centered learning, incorporating active learning strategies that promote clinical reasoning, communication, collaboration, and problem‑solving skills.

The College has a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion and expects faculty to contribute to the College's distinctive educational objectives, which promote interdisciplinary perspectives, intercultural understanding, and concern with social responsibility and the ethical implications of knowledge and action. Support and instruction for teaching is provided by the CVM Academic and Student Affairs Office and the Center for Educational Innovation (including the Early Career Teaching and Learning Program).

We will work with you to allow time to prepare teaching materials that currently are needed in the curriculum and based on your interests.

Research:

While participation in research is not a requirement of this position, engaging in collaborative research projects with residents and interns is strongly encouraged.

The College offers robust intramural funding programs, career development resources, and support for collaborative research. Opportunities for interdisciplinary research are available through partnerships with faculty across the College of Veterinary Medicine and the five additional Health Sciences schools. Administrative support is available for proposal development.

Outreach/Service:

Expectations of the outreach/service component of this position include providing expert advice to referring veterinarians, attending departmental and collegiate faculty meetings, and serving on departmental, collegiate, and university committees, as well as in veterinary‑related…