Job Description: | The University of Florida Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is seeking a motivated and compassionate Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist to join our team as a full-time, tenure or non-tenure track Assistant/Associate, dependent on qualifications. The Maternal-Fetal Medicine clinical team consists of 8 clinical faculty, 3 fellows, 5 certified nurse midwives, 4 ambulatory Advance Practitioner providers (CNM and ARNP), 12 ultrasound technicians, 2 perinatal nurse navigators and 1 genetic counselor. As a perinatologist, this individual will carry out the division’s missions of patient care, education and research. Faculty physicians share the duties of perinatal clinical care in the following settings: - Ambulatory offices on and off the main campus
- Fetal Care Program: Collaborative multi-specialty care for fetal conditions involving neonatology, pediatric medical and surgical subspecialties, genetics, and all modalities of fetal imaging including ultrasound and MRI.
- Maternal Fetal Medicine condition-specific programs including:
- Cardio-Obstetrics Care Program
- Preterm Birth and Pregnancy Loss Prevention Program
- Diabetes in Pregnancy Program
- Invasive Placenta Program
- In-patient antepartum unit
- Labor and delivery
Clinical duties may include coverage of Labor and Delivery activities, oversight of complex pregnancy care, perinatal consultations, perinatal ultrasound, invasive and non-invasive fetal diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Additional responsibilities include the education and supervision of residents and MFM fellows in the fundamentals of maternal-fetal medicine, including surgical and ultrasound skills required to optimize pregnancy outcomes and provide diagnostic information to patients, as well as providing education for third-year medical students in the ObGyn clerkship and fourth year students on the MFM elective. MFM Faculty participate in assigned hospital, medical school and department committees; attend and support department activities (rounds, special lectures, postgraduate courses, etc.); and participate in Division conferences and fellowship activities. Scholarly activities and collaborative research activities are encouraged and there is room for professional growth within the institution and with research. There are numerous opportunities to establish or join multidisciplinary collaborations to address research involving fundamental questions of biology and clinical care. The University of Florida has a long and distinguished history of reproductive and perinatal research across multiple colleges of the university. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology clinics serve our community with nearly 60,000 patient visits and 3,000 deliveries a year. The Division performs over 13,000 ultrasound exams annually. The Department combines high quality patient care with a strong commitment to teaching future physicians and exploring research questions to push the science of medicine to its leading edge. For more information about the department and our team, please visit http://obgyn.ufl.edu. |
