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Job Description :

The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville is seeking a candidate to fill a full-time position for the Division of Forensic Pediatrics and Child Protection. This position will be a non-tenure accruing level of Clinical Assistant / Associate / Full Professor.

This position will report to the Chief of the Division of Forensics and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville.

The successful candidate will provide the following duties and responsibilities :

• Provide medical evaluations of children suspected to be abused or neglected.
• Participate in training and other professional development for team staff and medical personnel, as directed.
• Participate in screening of child abuse reports made to the Florida Abuse Hotline and provide selected direct screening as required by law, or when otherwise determined appropriate.
• Be available / 7 for consultation to team members and team physicians, including telemedicine consultation, when available and appropriate, for medical assessment needs. Assure medical representation for team staffings.
• Participate in peer reviews with other team physicians and other medical providers. If designated and approved, participate in monitoring of child protection teams as a member of the statewide designated monitoring team.
• Attend statewide child protection team meetings and other meetings and training sessions as required.
• Provide medical consultation in an area of expertise to other teams when requested.
• Provide depositions and expert court testimony when appropriate.
• Provide teaching of fellows, residents and students.

With more than 6, 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 , outpatient visits and more than , inpatient admissions annually.

UF Health in Jacksonville, Florida, is comprised of :

The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville is the largest of the three colleges at the Health Science Center Jacksonville. We excel in education, research and patient care that expresses our steadfast values of compassion, excellence, professionalism and innovation. The college's clinical science departments house more than faculty members, 1, staff and 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 .

Expected Salary :

Negotiable base on experience and academic appointment.

Minimum Requirements :

Applicants must possess a MD / DO degree and possess or be eligible for a Florida Medical License.

Preferred Qualifications :

BE / BC Pediatrician