Physician Staff (Supervisor) Primary Care Service

Veterans Health Administration•Asheville, NC

13d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides the Primary clinical treatment to patients of the Medical Center. Physicians assigned to the Primary Care Service are responsible to the Chief of Primary Care Service who makes assignments and performs review and appraisals. Work is also subject to Peer Review and Ongoing and Focused Periodic Performance Evaluation by the Medical Staff Executive Committee. Recruitment/Relocation Incentive: Authorized. Duties include but are not limited to the following: Provides a full range of clinical services including assessment and using the most appropriate techniques in providing quality care in their specialty. Performs appropriate evaluation and management of patients. Provides a full range of therapeutic interventions to units/programs in the medical center to which they are assigned and has clinical privileges to practice including diagnostic assessment, medication evaluation, and management. Participates effectively in team meetings and treatment planning conferences and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members in a manner that enhances coordination of comprehensive patient care. Orders diagnostic tests and discriminates between normal and abnormal findings and makes appropriate treatment decisions. Ensures that the practice of medicine is consistent with Joint Commission, GARF, VA policies and procedures, clinical practice guidelines, VISN standards, national statutes and regulations, medical record documentation, mandatory continuing education, and HIPPA policies. Specific tasks are itemized in each physician's credentialing and privileging package. Provides oversight and supervision for pain clinic activities. Serves as Chief in absence of the Chief, Primary Care Service. Serves as supervisor for Primary Care physicians and responsible for overall operation of primary care clinics. Adjudicates change of provider requests. Customer Service: Relationships with management, co-workers, patients and the general public are consistently courteous, respectful, and cooperative in nature. Employee will display a cooperative attitude and will effectively work together to implement the organization's mission and goals. Employee will ensure productivity is maintained at the established level.

Requirements

United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
Degree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed.
Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
Residency Training: Physicians must have completed residency training, approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification.
Proficiency in spoken and written English.

Nice To Haves

Leadership Experience Preferred.
Primary Care Physician with experience managing a panel of patients.
Provides diagnostic assessment, medication evaluation, and appropriate treatment decisions.
Collaborates patient care with multidisciplinary team members.

Responsibilities

Provides the Primary clinical treatment to patients of the Medical Center.
Provides a full range of clinical services including assessment and using the most appropriate techniques in providing quality care in their specialty.
Performs appropriate evaluation and management of patients.
Provides a full range of therapeutic interventions to units/programs in the medical center to which they are assigned and has clinical privileges to practice including diagnostic assessment, medication evaluation, and management.
Participates effectively in team meetings and treatment planning conferences and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members in a manner that enhances coordination of comprehensive patient care.
Orders diagnostic tests and discriminates between normal and abnormal findings and makes appropriate treatment decisions.
Ensures that the practice of medicine is consistent with Joint Commission, GARF, VA policies and procedures, clinical practice guidelines, VISN standards, national statutes and regulations, medical record documentation, mandatory continuing education, and HIPPA policies.
Provides oversight and supervision for pain clinic activities.
Serves as Chief in absence of the Chief, Primary Care Service.
Serves as supervisor for Primary Care physicians and responsible for overall operation of primary care clinics.
Adjudicates change of provider requests.
Relationships with management, co-workers, patients and the general public are consistently courteous, respectful, and cooperative in nature.
Employee will display a cooperative attitude and will effectively work together to implement the organization's mission and goals.
Employee will ensure productivity is maintained at the established level.

Benefits

Recruitment/Relocation Incentive: Authorized
EDRP Authorized: This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program.
Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)
Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting