Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Patient Care: Practitioners are expected to provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate. and effective for the promotion of health, prevention of illness. treatment of disease, and care at the end of life.
- Medical/Clinical Knowledge: Practitioners arc expected to demonstrate knowledge of established and evolving biomedical. clinical and social sciences, and the application of their knowledge to patient care and the education of others. The practitioner should be experienced in the therapy of patients with acute hematologic malignancies as well as the performance of autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic blood progenitor transplantation.
- Clinical Judgment: To ensure practice-based learning and improvement, practitioners are expected to be able to use scientific evidence and methods to investigate, evaluate, and improve patient care.
- Interpersonal & Communication Skills: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that enable them to establish and maintain professional relationships with patients, families, and other members of the health care team.
- Professionalism: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate behaviors that reflect a commitment to continuous professional development, ethical practice, and understanding and sensitivity to diversity, and a responsible attitude toward their patients, their profession.
- Systems-Based Practice: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate both an understanding of the contexts and systems in which health care is provided, and the ability to apply this knowledge to improve optimizing health care.
- Practitioners are expected to provide inpatient and consult service during off tours (nights, weekends, and holidays, as needed by the organization.
- Clinical Management including indirect patient care: open encounter & open consult management, CPRS documentation rules and requirements, adherence to clinic procedures for patient scheduling & access, ensuring staff productivity. oversight of relevant performance measures, and participation in the development of the new focus on the Medical Home and Patient Centric Care, Utilization, Quality, and Patient Safety oversight, process improvement (system redesign)
- Education: Supervision of residents is a major duty of this position. Practitioners are expected to show effectiveness in teaching, monitor and coordinate educational activities, and comply with necessary trainee supervision.
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.
VHA Physician Total Rewards.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday (08:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
Recruitment/Relocation Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized
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
Starting at $121,020 Per Year (VM 15)