Physician- Primary Care

Summary

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply.

Duties

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards. Recruitment Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Learn more. EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact [email protected], the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases Paid Time Off: 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) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification) Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting Contract Buy Out Program: This position may be eligible for the Physician / Provider Contract Buy Out Program (CBOP), which authorizes VHA to buy out service contracts (Locum agreements, loan repayments, sign-on bonus contracts, Physician-owned practices) in exchange for employment at certain rural or highly rural facilities for a period of obligated service (minimum 4 years). For additional information and eligibility requirements, contact the VHA Contract Buy Out Program Manager at [email protected]. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. This position is located at the Warren County VA Clinic at 3 Farm Colony Drive Warren, PA 16365-5209 MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Description: Provision of general medical/primary care managing both common and complex illnesses. Perform history and physical examination Evaluate, diagnose, provide generalist/primary care consultation, medically manage, and treat adult patients. Perform pre-operative evaluation Supervision of medical residents and medical students Obtain informed consent in conformance with organization policies and procedures. Procedures Arthrocentesis, aspiration and/or injection, knee, with or without image guidance Cryotherapy of skin lesions Develop acupuncture plan. Use of needles, electric stimulators, and heat in treatment. (Includes cupping, dry needling) Diagnose, treat, and prevent illness or injury by use of manual therapy to improve the impaired or altered function of the musculo-skeletal system (somatic dysfunction). Foreign body removal Management of epistaxis including placement of posterior nasal hemostatic packing and anterior nasal cautery and/or packing to control nasal hemorrhage (epistaxis) Pap smear and endocervical culture Perform simple skin biopsy or excision Preliminary interpretation of EKG and imaging studies Skin excision, including biopsy and lesion removal Skin lesions removal utilizing hyfrecator Treatment of burns, superficial and partial thickness Trigger point injection, injection of lateral shoulder region Wound care, incision and drainage of abscess, simple debridement, aspiration, wound closure, and local anesthetic techniques Special Privileges: It should be noted that all physicians care for patients with these characteristics. However, this delineation is intended to set physicians with formal training and/or experience in this area apart from the generalist and to establish them as expert consultants in this field. Evaluate, diagnose, provide treatment, consultation and medically manage patients with procedural and non-procedural pain complaints (i.e., chronic and cancer pain). Compensation and pension (Registration with the DMA Required) Special Procedures: Criteria for special procedures: applicants must meet criteria for core privileges, outlined above. Specialized traininq required. Battlefield Acupuncture (BFA Training Requirements Required) NADA (Must be allowable within limits of the State of Licensure. NADA Training Requirements Required) Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:00am - 4:00pm Telework: Ad-Hoc, may be authorized at Management's discretion

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, you must meet the basic requirements as well as any additional requirements (if applicable) listed in the job announcement. Applicants pending the completion of training or license requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Currently employed physician(s) in VA who met the requirements for appointment under the previous qualification standard at the time of their initial appointment are deemed to have met the basic requirements of the occupation. Basic 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. (NOTE: VA physicians involved in academic training programs may be required to be board certified for faculty status.) Approved residencies are: (1) Those approved by the accrediting bodies for graduate medical education, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or American Osteopathic Association (AOA), in the list published for the year the residency, or fellowship if applicable, was completed; OR (2) One year of post medical school training (internship, first year of residency, or transitional year residency) approved by ACGME or AOA followed by two years of post-training independent practice (performing under a full and unrestricted license) in the United States; OR (3) Non-US residency training programs followed by a minimum of three years of verified independent practice in the United States (performing under a full and unrestricted license) performing duties related to the position they are applying for (United States fellowships would be creditable towards this requirement), which the local Medical Staff Executive Committee deems to have provided the applicant with appropriate professional training and believes has exposed the Physician to an appropriate range of patient care experiences. Exceptions: Residents currently enrolled in ACGME/AOA accredited residency training programs and who would otherwise meet the basic requirements for appointment are eligible to be appointed as "Physician Resident Providers" (PRPs). PRPs must be fully licensed physicians (i.e., not a training license) and may only be appointed on an intermittent basis. PRPs are not considered independent practitioners and will not be privileged; rather, they are to have a "scope of practice" that allows them to perform ce