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Job Description

Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida, is seeking a Casually employed Pediatric Vascular Surgeon to assist with call coverage.

Candidate Qualifications

  • MD, DO, or MBBS.
  • Board-certified or Board-eligible.
  • Eligible for an unrestricted Florida medical license.
  • Internationally trained physicians who meet Florida licensure and U.S. board certification requirements are encouraged to apply. Nemours has experience supporting candidates through established visa pathways.
  • Passion for community-focused care and the ability to balance high-volume routine surgery with collaborative tertiary practice opportunities.

About Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida

Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida, is a 130-bed pediatric hospital located in Orlando’s Lake Nona Medical City. As the southern anchor of the Nemours system, we deliver life-changing care for children across the state.

Designed by and for families, the hospital promotes children’s physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. Nemours Children’s Hospital is an accredited provider of Graduate Medical Education and partners with the University of Central Florida College of Medicine.

About Orlando/Lake Nona

Lake Nona is one of the nation’s most vibrant, innovative communities, combining world-class healthcare and life sciences with exceptional schools, residential neighborhoods, and recreational amenities. Just minutes from Orlando’s city center, Lake Nona offers a high quality of life, making it an ideal place to live, work, and raise a family.

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.

Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.

Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.

Learn more at Nemours.org.

Key Responsibilities

The surgeon will provide pediatric vascular surgery services and assist with call coverage at Nemours Children’s Hospital. They will balance high-volume routine surgeries with collaborative tertiary practice opportunities.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an MD, DO, or MBBS degree and be board-certified or board-eligible. Applicants must also be eligible for an unrestricted Florida medical license.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
10+ years of experience

Key Skills

Patient Care

Surgery — Physician Career Context

Of the 38 active Surgery listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 92% have no call, 87% require no weekends.

Surgery pay on WeekdayDoc is down 11.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Florida is 103.4 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.1% of Florida clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Florida has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.9this job 1.5
Below most Surgery listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,016 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call

Living in Orlando

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$357k
Typical market rent
$1,896/mo
Residents’ average commute
26 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
101.4
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.