Description
The Department of Pharmacy Education and Practice (PEP) invites applications for a full-time, 12-month, non-tenure track position at the rank of Clinical Assistant or Associate Professor. This is an exciting opportunity to join the PEP faculty at the Jacksonville campus of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy (UFCOP). The ideal candidate will contribute to the teaching, patient care, research, and service missions of the College. Responsibilities will include 1) didactic, clinical skills, and experiential teaching in the PharmD program focusing on acute care pharmacy practice; 2) maintaining a high-quality clinical pharmacy practice focused within inpatient internal medicine; 3) providing service to the College of Pharmacy, Hospital, the pharmacy profession; and, 4) conducting scholarly works. The faculty member will maintain an active clinical practice/teaching site. The UFCOP Jacksonville facilities are located on the campus the UF Health Jacksonville Medical Center (http://ufhealthjax.org/). The clinical practice will be established at UF Health Jacksonville, with this position contributing 20% effort to patient care. Faculty in this position reports to the Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Education and Practice.
The Pharmacy Education and Practice Department and the UF College of Pharmacy: The Department of Pharmacy Education and Practice is the largest department in the college and home to the clinical faculty. The department’s faculty are highly interactive and engaged leaders in pharmacy practice, education, and research/scholarship in these areas. The department has strong faculty in the Health System-Based Pharmacotherapy Division. Research strengths in the department include critical care, infectious diseases, health disparities, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. The UF College of Pharmacy ranks among the top four pharmacy colleges in the nation. The College is based in one of the largest integrated academic health centers in the country, with Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Public Health and Health Professions, and Veterinary Medicine, as well as the UF Health and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, situated on a campus serving over 55,000 students. Opportunities to build cross-college collaborations are abundant.
The University of Florida: UF, the flagship AAU institution of the State of Florida, is a top-tier research institution with a long history of training outstanding undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. The University of Florida’s academic health center is the country’s only academic health center, with six health-related colleges located on a single, contiguous campus. The colleges, major research centers and institutes, and clinical enterprises focus on building collaborative, specialized clinical services centered on quality and innovation.
Requirements
Clinical Assistant Professor: Candidates for this rank must hold the highest degree appropriate to their field or possess equivalent qualifications based on professional experience. A candidate shall be expected to demonstrate successful experience pertinent to the position they are being recommended and have demonstrated qualities relevant to the goals of the academic unit in which they will be employed.
Clinical Associate Professor: Candidates for this rank shall hold the highest degree appropriate to their field or possess professional qualifications above those equivalent to the highest degree relevant to their field. They are expected to have produced creative work, professional writing, or research and successful teaching or professional experience. A candidate for this rank must have a distinguished record of achievement beyond the assistant professor level.
