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FDA Hiring Initiative
The Food and Drug Administration is recruiting for 1,300 medical and science positions to fill critical needs.
Description of Position
Medical officers at FDA perform duties that:
- ensuring all human drugs manufactured for interstate sale are safe and effective with
truthful and informative product labeling
- ensuring the safety, potency, purity and effectiveness
of vaccines, blood products, certain diagnostic products and
other biological and biotechnology-derived human products
- ensuring the safety and effectiveness of medical
devices and eliminating unnecessary human exposure to manmade
radiation from medical, occupational and consumer products
- conducting inspections and investigations of food and drug manufacturing
establishments, performing analytical work and recommending enforcement actions.
Grade (Salary) Levels
The federal General Schedule (GS) grade levels at which these position are most commonly filled are GS-14 and 15. Non-supervisory positions will be subject to peer review of individual accomplishments.
For a list of GS-grade salaries, see the
Office of Personnel Management Web site.
Qualifications
Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy from a
school in the United States or Canada approved by a recognized accrediting
body in the year of the applicant's graduation; OR a Doctor of Medicine
or equivalent degree from a foreign medical school that provided
education and medical knowledge substantially equivalent to accredited
schools in the United States. Comparability may be demonstrated
by permanent certification by the Educational Commission for Foreign
Medical Graduates (ECFMG) or a fifth pathway certificate for American
students who completed premedical education in the United States
and graduate education in a foreign country.
- For GS-14 - Four years of residency training in the
specialty of the position to be filled or equivalent experience
and training.
- For GS-15 - Five years of residency training in the
specialty of the position to be filled or equivalent experience
and training. (A residency program involves training in a specialized
field of medicine in an institution accredited for training in the
specialty by a recognized body of the American Medical Association).
Geographic Locations
Medical Officers are located in headquarters (suburban Washington, D.C.) as well as throughout the field.
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