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The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville seeks an up to full-time faculty member at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor for the position of Nocturnist. Candidates must:
- Be Board Certified/Board Eligible in Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Hold or be eligible for a full, unrestricted Florida Medical License
ASSIGNMENTS include:
- Participation in overnight Labor and Delivery coverage which includes direct care of patients as the primary provider with supervision of and clinical teaching of a triage team that includes residents and medical students
- OB practices include management of low risk and high risk labor patients, caesareans, operative and spontaneous vaginal deliveries and post-operative management with direct supervision of residents
- GYN practices include floor and emergency department consultations, emergency surgical treatments with resident involvement
The position offers excellent benefits including generous maternity and paternity leave as well as sovereign immunity. The position qualifies for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF).
The department is composed of 25 faculty members, and is based at the UF Health Science Center in Jacksonville, which is located on the easily accessible north part of downtown in Jacksonville, Florida. The UF Health Jacksonville hospital averages 3000-3500 deliveries a year and has a level 3 NICU staffed by UF neonatologists. The Department also employs full time faculty in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Gynecologic Oncology, Maternal Fetal Medicine, and Minimally Invasive Surgery, which are available during overnight hours.
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.
To learn more about the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville & Jacksonville, FL, please visit:
https://med.jax.ufl.edu/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu3_1vtlqY8
https://www.visitjacksonville.com/
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