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The University of Florida Department of Emergency Medicine - Jacksonville is expanding! We are recruiting motivated and energetic physicians to join our Faculty. We have a clinical position in general emergency medicine that will serve at our UF Health North ED as well as our 3 community Free Standing ED/UC Hybrid sites. Successful candidates will receive academic appointments as either a Clinical Assistant or Associate professor. This is a non-tenure accruing position.
UF Health North is a 162-bed community hospital with a 34 bed Emergency Department, comprehensive radiology and laboratory services, and consultation availability from all University of Florida specialty and sub-specialty services. Annual admissions exceed 9,000 and are rising, with over 49,000 ER visits and 5,000 outpatient surgeries in the most recent year. Open since 2015, UF Health North serves as the sole all-encompassing medical facility in its area. Our growth trajectory reflects the surging population growth occurring in Northeast Florida.
The UF Health Free Standing ED and Urgent Care Centers reflect a groundbreaking care delivery option in our community. Open since early 2024, these three ED/UC facilities provide both Urgent Care and ED services dependent on patient needs. Each facility is on track to have over 24,000 patient visits in calendar year 2025, and will admit over 4,000 patients combined.
About UF Health:
UF Health is the Southeast’s premier academic health center and an integral part of the University of Florida. Our mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and research across the spectrum of basic, translational and clinical investigation. UF Health encompasses the Gainesville-based University of Florida colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, and Veterinary Medicine; the UF Health Shands family of hospitals in Gainesville; UF Health Jacksonville medical center; UF Health North; an academic campus in Jacksonville that is home to the UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville and includes degree programs offered by the colleges of Nursing and Pharmacy; UF Health St. Johns in St. Augustine; UF Health Neighborhood Hospital in Ocala; and our campus in Central Florida, which includes UF Health Spanish Plaines Hospital and UF Health Leesburg Hospital. It also includes primary care and specialty practices throughout Central, North Central and northern Florida and Southeast Georgia. The UF Health network of hospitals and physician practices manages more than 3 million inpatient and outpatient visits each year, and serves patients from all 67 Florida counties, from across the nation and from dozens of countries around the world.
About College of Medicine – Jacksonville (COM-J):
The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville is the largest of the three colleges at the Health Science Center Jacksonville. The college's 16 clinical science departments house more than 500 faculty members, 1,560 staff and 450 residents and fellows, as well as medical students from UF and around the country. We offer an incredible breadth of clinical training programs and proud to train many of best primary care providers and specialists throughout the region, the state and the country.
Research, discovery and innovation are critical aspects of our clinical campus and we have some of the country’s leading researchers at our locations searching for and finding new treatments and clinical options.
The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville faculty, administrators, residents, fellows, students and staff work as a team in pursuit of our common mission — to heal, to comfort, to educate and to discover through quality health care, elimination of health disparities, medical education, innovation and research.
To learn more about our college, leadership, mission, faculty resources, and the city of Jacksonville visit https://med.jax.ufl.edu/administrative-affairs/faculty-orientation-guide/.
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