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The University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville, Department of Emergency Medicine is recruiting an experienced and motivated physician leader to join our faculty as Medical Director for our North Intensive Care Unit. This position is at the non-tenured level of Clinical Assistant/Associate/Full Professor sits on the department leadership team and reports directly to the Department Chair.
In this role, the ideal candidate is a visionary and distinguished academic physician with an outstanding record of accomplishments in research, education, clinical care and service, who has demonstrated strong leadership skills and a track record of collaboration. The successful candidate will combine an exceptional research background and clinical acumen with superb communication skills and emotional intelligence, an inspiring strategic vision, a dedication to mentorship, development of clinician scientists and clinician educators, and a deep commitment to fostering wellness in an equitable environment. The successful candidate will provide oversight, direction and leadership for the emergency medicine clinical practice at UF Health Jacksonville North campus in Jacksonville Florida. UF Health Jacksonville is a 639-bed urban teaching hospital and Level 1 Trauma Center. Our emergency department includes a nationally recognized residency training program, pediatric ED, an award-winning emergency simulation center and a highly successful and active research division. A full cadre of sub-specialty services are available to the over 80,000 patients who visit us each year.
This position has direct oversight of the operation of the Intensive Care Unit and is responsible for coordination with ED Nursing, pharmacy, case management and IT. The medical director is responsible for developing and implementing policies to ensure that the ICU operates within budget and ensures quality care to patients. They are responsible for developing and implementing policies to ensure that the ICU operates within budget and ensures quality care to patients. The Medical Director is a full-time appointment in the Department of Emergency Medicine, with approximately 80% clinical and 20% administrative duties.
Responsibilities include the development and implementation of clinical policies, ensuring compliance with regulations, analysis of performance metrics, and improving service delivery and patient outcomes. This role requires the successful candidate to have:
- Prior management and leadership experience at the service chief or medical director level in an academic medical center.
- In depth experience with hospital operations, particularly in an urban, public health or safety net system.
- Knowledge of material and pharmaceutical supply chains, capital budgeting and coordination of ancillary service support.
- Successful demonstration of operational improvements in intensive care.
- Experience working with senior health system leaders and stakeholders.
- Proven ability to manage teams and projects successfully.
With more than 6,200 faculty and staff, UF Health in Jacksonville is the largest UF campus outside of Gainesville. UF Health physicians offer primary care and specialty services in practices throughout Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia, tallying more than 650,000 outpatient visits and more than 40,000 inpatient admissions annually.
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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