Assistant physician or assistant physician in the gastroenterology and hepatology department - 100%

In your capacity as a senior physician, you will evolve in a stimulating university environment, within a multidisciplinary team, and you will be called upon to participate in the clinical activities of the gastroenterology and hepatology department.

You assist the head of department and the assistant physicians in the care, coordination of practical activities, clinical, therapeutic and endoscopic interventions of the patients entrusted to you. You participate in the second-line specialty on-call system.

Demonstrating a confirmed interest in teaching, you participate in pre/post-graduate and continuous teaching in gastroenterology and hepatology.

Dynamic, flexible and committed, you develop interdisciplinary clinical projects. You deploy and ensure research within the unit.

You hold a federal medical diploma and have obtained an FMH specialist title in gastroenterology and hepatology. If your diploma and specialization originate from a foreign country, you have obtained or must obtain recognition by the Commission des professions médicales of the Office fédéral de la santé publique (MEBEKO).

You benefit from several years of experience in gastroenterology and hepatology with a recognized hyperspecialization in interventional endoscopy (ERCP, digestive stents, EMR, ESD) and diagnostic and therapeutic digestive echoendoscopy (more than 5 years independently). If you hold an advanced training diploma in interventional endoscopy and echoendoscopy, this would be an asset.

You also possess a doctoral thesis, a privat-docent, or a title deemed equivalent. You possess or must obtain a Geneva cantonal right of practice.

For non-French speaking candidates, a C1 level in French for spoken and written tests is required.

Possessing excellent communication skills in a multidisciplinary team and with patients, you are a dynamic, flexible and committed person. Furthermore, you have demonstrated strong adaptability skills.

You demonstrate open-mindedness and possess leadership qualities allowing you to supervise and mentor interns and chief residents as well as to support and motivate staff. You have demonstrated teaching skills and have a pronounced taste for research and innovation.

Finally, you have the ambition to promote and develop high-level clinical and academic activity in your field of specialty.

• Start date: to be agreed
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 100%
• Function class: 26 and 27 if aggregate
• Contract: CDI
• Application deadline: 30.09.2026
• Request for information: Prof. J.-L. Frossard, head of department, jean-louis.frossard@hug.ch (mailto:jean-louis.frossard@hug.ch)

Your application file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae, copies of the diplomas and certificates required for the position and the last 2 work certificates.

This advertisement is addressed indistinctly to women and men.

Wishing to commit to the fight against unemployment, the HUG encourage applications coming from the Office cantonal de l’emploi.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform are taken into account. Paper and email applications will not be processed.

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The Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Service manages, on non-surgical diagnostic and therapeutic levels, patients suffering from diseases of the digestive tract, liver, bile ducts and pancreas, taking into account the services provided by other HUG departments. It ensures the endoscopic, percutaneous and transhepatic interventional services of the aforementioned organs. It actively participates in the Centre des affections hépato-biliaires et pancréatiques: a reference center in Switzerland. More than 1000 cases per year are discussed there. It manages patients suffering from liver, bile duct and pancreas disease. These often complex cases require the opinion of several specialists.