Job Summary
Job Description
The Memphis VA Medical Center, Polytrauma Clinic is seeking a Physical Med and Rehab Physiatrist with at least two years of proven Spinal Cord Injury/Disorder experience that comes with a dual appointment to the University of Tennessee. The medical center consists of one main campus, which includes a sixty-bed Spinal Cord Injury Unit, a Women’s Health clinic, and ten Community-Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC). It is a tertiary care facility classified as a Clinical Referral Level 1 Facility and one of the most complex medical centers in the VA healthcare system. It is a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology, as well as extensive education and research programs. Comprehensive primary, secondary, and tertiary health care is provided in areas of primary care, general cardiovascular, neurological surgery, psychiatry, pain management, physical medicine and rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, neurology, oncology, rheumatology, geriatrics, optometry, and dentistry. Services are available to more than 200,000 veterans living in a fifty-three-county, tri-state area (Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi).
Job Responsibilities
• Evaluate, diagnose, and provide treatment or consultative services to patients in need of SCI care
• Provides primary and specialty care to SCI patients in accordance with VHA directives
• Provides inpatient and outpatient services
• Provides oversight to mid-level providers in the SCI service as requested
• Provides consultative services for SCI patients and new referrals
• Participates in ongoing educational activities for the SCI Clinic
• Serves on service and/or facility level committees, including performance improvement
• Contributes to compliance for performance measures and standards for accreditation
Qualifications
• Board Eligible/Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Full and unrestricted license from ANY US State or territory
• At least two years of proven Spinal Cord Injury/Disorder experience
• Highly qualified candidates also BE/BC in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine (SCIM)
• Current BLS/CPR certification
• Be proficient in the written and spoken English language
• US Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens
Working Hours
• Experience Based Salary $248,000-$300,000
• Work Schedule: Mon-Fri: 8AM-4:30PM with occasional call
• Recruitment Bonus and Student Loan Repayment
• Annual Performance Bonus and regular salary increases
• Possible $1000 per year CME Reimbursement (must be board certified)
• Malpractice Liability Protection with tail coverage
We Offer:
• Annually: 26 paid vacation days, 13 paid sick days, and 11 paid holidays, 5 paid CME attendance days
• Federal health/dental/vision/term life/long-term care insurance
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and separate 401K with up to 5% in contributions
• Predictable work schedules with a focus on quality rather than volume
• Clinical research opportunities and possible academic affiliation
• No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
Skills
• Provides primary and specialty care to SCI patients in accordance with VHA directives
• Provides inpatient and outpatient services
• Provides oversight to mid-level providers in the SCI service as requested
• Provides consultative services for SCI patients and new referrals
• Participates in ongoing educational activities for the SCI Clinic
• Serves on service and/or facility level committees, including performance improvement
• Contributes to compliance for performance measures and standards for accreditation