Job Summary
Job Description
Physician – Cardiac Anesthesiologist Opportunity – VA Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA
**Eligible for $200,000 in student loan repayment**
Description: The VA in Pittsburgh seeks a full-time, highly talented Anesthesiologist to provide care for a wide variety of cases including general, cardiac, liver/kidney transplant, neurosurgical, thoracic, and vascular anesthesia. Experience in liver transplant and cardiothoracic fellowship training is highly preferred. Among the most innovative and forward-looking in the nation, the VA in Pittsburgh provides exceptional healthcare to our nation’s Veterans, trains America’s future healthcare providers, and conducts research that contributes to medical advancements. Visit us on the web at Pittsburgh VA Medical Center.
Benefits Highlights:
Student loan repayment up to $200,000 on eligible loans
Regular salary increases and annual performance bonuses.
50-55 days of paid time off (26 days annual leave, 13 days sick leave, 11 Federal holidays, up to 5 days for CME)
Federal health/dental/vision/long-term care insurance offered.
Malpractice insurance provided.
No physician employment contracts and no significant restrictions on moonlighting.
Job Responsibilities
Initial evaluation and overall workups, and focused history & physicals of medical/surgical patients as needed, including evaluation of patients as part of our multidisciplinary pre-op clinic.
Peri-operative anesthetic care to patients, including pre-operative assessment, intra-operative anesthetic administration and monitoring, and post-anesthesia care in an anesthesia team model with CRNA and/or anesthesia residents. Rotating evening and weekend call coverage for urgent cases is considered a key responsibility.
Expertise with a wide variety of anesthesia techniques and procedures (experience with breath of anesthesia techniques), including regional and spinal anesthesia.
Provision of clinical anesthetic care to cardiothoracic and liver transplant surgical patients; board certification in Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography is highly preferred.
Teaching of anesthesia residents, medical students, and student nurse anesthetists (clinical affiliation with University of Pittsburgh).
Participate in quality/performance improvement initiatives, committees, and any other relevant activities as appropriate, including VASQIP.
Opportunity for participation in clinical research for interested candidates.
Ability to work effectively with patients and coworkers and dedication to treating other health care professionals and patients' families with respect and dignity.
Basic Requirements:
Qualifications
Doctor of Medicine degree or equivalent degree from a course of education in 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.