Physician (Regular Ft)

Veterans Health Administration • Canton, MI

4d

About The Position

The Physician provides comprehensive primary care at the Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System, including scheduled, unscheduled, and urgent patient visits. The role involves managing acute and chronic conditions, providing preventive care, coordinating services and specialty referrals, and supporting patient-centered team-based care. Physicians also participate in education and quality improvement, precept learners and new providers, and contribute to excellent customer service and population health efforts.

This is a regular full-time position with a Monday through Friday schedule from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The work is largely office-based and sedentary, with electronic clinical charting. The position requires a medical degree, an unrestricted U.S. medical license, qualifying residency training, and proficiency in spoken and written English.

The position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program, subject to program and application requirements. VA describes a comprehensive total rewards package that includes competitive salary, potential performance bonuses and salary increases, paid leave and federal holidays, retirement benefits, insurance programs, possible CME reimbursement, and malpractice liability protection with tail coverage. No physician employment contract or significant restriction on moonlighting applies.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship, except that non-citizens may be appointed when qualified citizens cannot be recruited in accordance with VA policy.
• Doctor of Medicine or equivalent degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine from an appropriately approved or accredited institution.
• Current, full, and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, or the District of Columbia.
• Completion of qualifying residency training in an accredited core specialty program leading to board-certification eligibility, or an applicable alternative training and independent-practice pathway described in the announcement.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Must pass a pre-employment physical evaluation or examination.
• Must complete required background/security investigation and onboarding; selected applicants in testing-designated positions are subject to pre-employment drug screening.
• Must meet applicable Selective Service registration requirements for males born after December 31, 1959.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is required for VA Health Care Personnel.
• Must meet application requirements described in the announcement; a probationary period may be required.
• Must be capable of using a computer for electronic clinical charting.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct patient care through scheduled, unscheduled, and urgent visits.
• Complete physician/nurse practitioner clinical reminders.
• Respond to alerts, Microsoft Teams messages, and secure messages.
• Complete opioid consent forms.
• Manage medications, including reconciliation at each visit, safe prescribing, ordering, and renewals.
• Manage consults and coordinate available support services, including Patient-Centered Medical Home, telehealth, social work, Home-Based Primary Care, and case management.
• Consult with and refer patients to specialty providers as appropriate.
• Review complex patients with Patient Aligned Care Team members and facilitate team-review meetings concerning quality, panel dashboards, team performance measures, and team building.
• Manage acute and chronic diseases and provide preventive care.
• Facilitate team meetings and regular huddles in person or virtually.
• Facilitate goals-of-care discussions, including life-sustaining treatment preferences and healthcare decision-making.
• Review VA and non-VA medical records and order tests, laboratory studies, imaging, procedures, and other appropriate services.
• Perform procedures such as cryotherapy, Pap smears, joint injections, and joint aspirations.
• Participate in continuing medical education, journal clubs, Grand Rounds, sharing best practices, workgroups, and process-improvement initiatives.
• Precept medical students, residents, and new providers.
• Place return-to-clinic orders.
• Communicate planned leave dates and coverage plans to the team by email.
• Set an Outlook out-of-office message identifying the appropriate contact during absences.
• Assign and establish EHR surrogates before planned leave.
• Assist with service recovery and close out inquiries and plans of care.
• Promote and encourage excellent customer service.
• Work with the PACT team on population health and panel management, including identifying health-promotion and preventive-care strategies for patients who have fallen out of care.

Benefits

• Education Debt Reduction Program student-loan repayment, subject to eligibility and approval, with an award of up to $200,000 and an eligibility period of one to five years.
• Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, and regular salary increases.
• 50–55 days of paid time off per year, including 26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid federal holidays, and possible five-day paid CME absence.
• Traditional federal pension, with five-year vesting, and federal 401(k) with up to 5% in VA contributions.
• Federal health, vision, dental, term life, and long-term care insurance; many federal insurance programs may continue into retirement.
• Possible $1,000 annual CME reimbursement for full-time physicians with board certification.
• Free malpractice liability protection with tail coverage.
• No physician employment contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree