Pulmonary, Critical Care Clinical Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor

Classification Title:

Pulmonary, Critical Care Clinical Assistant, Associate, Full Professor

Job Description:

The University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine seeks candidates for a faculty for immediate recruitment at non-tenure accruing level of Assistant/ Associate /Full Professor levels.

The division has strong subspecialty programs including ILD, sarcoidosis, pulmonary vascular disease, sleep disorders. We have a 28-bed medical ICU and provide inpatient general pulmonary consultative and procedural services. We have fellowship programs in Pulmonary, Critical Care. Teaching responsibilities include teaching graduate or medical students in the School of Medicine and patient care. Our faculty are involved in both translational sciences and clinical research.

We have a multiple open positions, as we plan to expand our MICU and outpatient services. Interest in critical care, asthma, COPD, sleep, interventional pulmonology and clinical or basic science research is a plus.

The University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville is the largest of the three colleges at the Health Science Center Jacksonville. The college is affiliated with UF Health in Jacksonville, a health system comprised of two hospitals — the 603-bed UF Health Jacksonville and 92-bed UF Health North — and more than 60 primary and specialty care practices throughout Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia.

The college's 16 clinical science departments house more than 440 faculty members, 1,560 staff and 384 residents and fellows, as well as medical students from UF and around the country. We offer an incredible breadth of clinical training program sand proud to train many of best primary care providers and specialists throughout the region, the state and the country.

The college offers 38 accredited graduate medical education programs and 14 non-standard programs. More than 100 residents and fellows from programs across the U.S. come to UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville to participate in various clinical rotations as well.

In addition to graduate medical education, clinical rotations in all the major disciplines are provided for students from the UF College of Medicine in Gainesville. Third-year medical students enrolled at UF spend about 25 percent of their training at the Jacksonville campus, gaining valuable experience in an urban setting. While third-year rotations are only offered to UF students, elective rotations in the final year of clinical training are available to students from accredited schools in the US and Canada.

For practicing physicians, the college offers a continuing medical education program that recruits national and international speakers who are well known and respected in their fields.

The college's faculty, residents and fellows are active in clinical research. Residents and fellows regularly present their findings at locations across the country and publish their projects in well-known publications. In 2019, the campus received $23.1 million in external research funding, approximately 50% of which was federally sponsored projects.

The campus houses a 16,000-square-foot clinical and translational research facility. To support faculty and resident research, the college has a Center for Data Solutions, offering researchers analytics, epidemiology and biostatistics support, and a Center for Research Training, helping develop the next generation of highly collaborative clinical researchers.

Located in the Northeastern part of the state on the Atlantic Ocean, Jacksonville’s weather is sunny and pleasant. We enjoy an average of 320 days of sunshine each year, yet have the coolest summers in the state. Known as the River City, Jacksonville is a major port city with numerous waterways, two Naval bases, several nature preserves, marshes, lakes, wetlands and miles of beaches. Flowing through Jacksonville is the 310-mile St. Johns River, which plays a major role in our work and play.

Expected Salary:

Salary is negotiable; commensurate with experience and qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

Applicants will have an MD/DO, eligible for Florida medical license and board certification in Internal Medicine. They must also be board-certified/eligible in Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care.

Preferred Qualifications:

Board eligibility or board certification in Sleep Medicine.

Special Instructions to Applicants:

This position is open until filled. Application review will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Please upload CV and three letters of recommendations with application.

The final candidate will be required to provide official transcript to the hiring department upon hire. A transcript will not be considered "official" if a designation of "Issued to Student" is visible. Degrees earned from an education institution outside of the United States are required to be evaluated by a professional credentialing service provider approved by National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES), which can be found at http://www.naces.org/. If an accommodation due to a disability is needed to apply for this position, please call 352-392-2477 or the Florida Relay System at 800-955-8771 (TDD). Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the US. Searches are conducted in accordance with Florida's Sunshine Law.

The University of Florida is committed to non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations, genetic information and veteran status in all aspects of employment including recruitment, hiring, promotions, transfers, discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits, and training.

Health Assessment Required:
Yes