The University of Florida, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences invites applications for a clinical, full time, non-tenure faculty position at the rank of Clinical Lecturer in Large Animal Medicine. This position would provide 40 weeks of clinical duty annually, split between hospitalist duties in the spring and daytime shifts during the rest of the year. The position would be responsible for clinical education of professional veterinary students and house officers, as well as didactic and laboratory teaching as the schedule allows. This position would provide oversight and training of technical hospital staff to assist in onboarding and career development of the large animal technicians. This person would provide care of hospitalized patients for all of the large animal specialties and serve to lessen the impact of emergency coverage to the faculty.
Responsibilities:
Hospitalist
- Provide superior patient care and management of hospitalized cases with a focus on after-hours critical care and ER receiving during the busy season in spring (Feb – May). Hospitalist, along with house officer on call, will admit:
- All medicine emergencies
- Colics and initial management of surgery emergencies
- Blocked goats
- Simple lacerations not over synovial structures
- Provide a collaborative, multi-specialty approach to all hospitalized cases, including LAS, LAR, and Ophthalmology patients.
- Enhance student teaching through the development of LAH hospitalized in-patient and ER receiving shifts with one-on-one opportunities to manage cases directly with faculty.
- Improve clinician/resident well-being and reduce medical errors by minimizing after-hours duty and phone calls to daytime clinicians.
- 16 weeks in spring hospitalist 2nd shift
Large Animal Internal Medicine
Daytime coverage, 16- 18 weeks
Large Animal Technician training
- 2 weeks dedicated technician training and development
- Biannual LAH CPR training and other didactic lectures to take place during these weeks
- Provide enhanced training, real-time feedback, and proactive oversight of technicians working on shifts where clinicians are not routinely present.
- Implementation of LA technician training seminars and DVM supervised technical skills training.
Schedule:
- 40 week / year clinical instructor role (pro-rated to 11 month appointment)
- 2 weeks dedicated technician training and development
- Biannual LAH CPR training and other didactic lectures to take place during these weeks
- 34-38 weeks clinical duty
- 16 weeks on hospitalist duty in the spring (4pm to 12am shifts + on - call)
- 16 to 18 weeks on daytime LAM service
- 6 to 8 weeks of after-hours ER coverage for LAM faculty when there is not an ER clinician on duty.
