Chief of Surgery
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician
Specialty
Surgery-General
Salary
$200,000
– $400,000
• yearly
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Full-Time
Work Environment
Hospital
Location
501 Butler Avenue, Martinsburg, West Virginia, 25405, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
11/26/24
Excellent opportunity for Chief of Surgery Physician at Martinsburg VA Medical Center!
Great Work-Life Balance!
Located in the heart of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, the Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) can be found on 175 acres in historic Berkeley County and has a service area of more than 70,000 Veterans in West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The Medical Center, part of the VA Capitol Health Care Network (VISN 5), offers a comprehensive range of services, including internal medicine, ambulatory surgery, audiology and speech pathology, dental, nursing home, nutrition, podiatry, prosthetics, women's health, mental health and rehabilitation medicine. Patient care is provided through an integrated primary care concept, and each veteran is assigned to a team of health care providers that follows the patient's care both as an inpatient and an outpatient. It is the mission of the Medical Center to honor America's Veterans as heroes by providing the highest quality health care. The employees of the Martinsburg VAMC are dedicated to improving the quality of life for eligible veterans through excellent health care.
The Chief of Surgical Services oversees all aspects of the Surgical Service Department at the Martinsburg VA Medical Center, including quality assurance, quality improvement, budget and fiscal management, human resource management, strategic planning, and planning development. The Chief of Surgery assures that the clinical and administrative functions are integrated to provide optimum utilization of available resources.
Job Responsibilities
-Participate in the operating room commensurate with technical abilities.
-Provides quality clinical care and services with regard to customer satisfaction.
-Provides comprehensive care of ambulatory patients in the outpatient clinic, inpatients, and patients
presenting to the Emergency Department by performing clinical examinations, managing new patient
consultations, diagnosis, and treatments.
-Ensures completion of encounters and operative notes.
-Assumes the responsibility for the overall management of the Martinsburg VA Surgical Service and
ensures the service functions as an integrated care delivery care system, providing patient-focused
surgical services for veterans.
-Completes medical record documentation and ensures subordinates complete medical records within
a timely manner and in accordance with current VA guidelines.
Qualifications
(if applicable) listed in the job announcement. Applicants pending the
- Completion of training or license requirements may be referred to 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.
- Education: Degree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting 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.
- 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.
- Board Certification
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