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Job Description
Urologist Opportunity – Wilkes-Barre, PA VAMC – Up to 55 Days off Annually
Serve Those Who’ve Served
Caring for our nation’s Veterans is among the most noble of callings.
How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate care to Veterans?
The Wilkes-Barre, PA VA Medical Center is currently seeking a full-time board certified/board eligible Urologist to join the VA team. Your duties will include:
- Urology consultation for inpatients and outpatients.
- Evaluate and treat Urology emergencies in the Emergency Department, Outpatient clinic, Inpatient ward, ICU, and the Operating Room.
- Provide professional services requiring full range of inpatient and outpatient Urology procedures.
- Facilitate patient access to medical care by recommending appropriate referrals to other health care providers in accordance with applicable policies and regulations.
- Responsible for being able to admit, work-up, and treat either surgical or medical patients presenting with illness or injuries of the genitourinary systems.
- Evaluate the patient to assess any changes in the physical status, lab values and vital signs of the patient prior to surgery. Appropriate notes are written in the patient's medical records, times, dates, and signed.
- Ability to perform minor and major surgical procedures.
- Responsible for providing the patient with risks, benefits and alternative treatments and securing the informed consent of the patient/family needed before conducting invasive procedures.
- Responsible for regular postoperative follow-up, patient teaching and wound care upon discharge orders in the chart in a timely manner.
- Perform emergency surgical procedures as needed.
- Complete all electronic, clinical, daily charting and documentation required by the Medical Center in a timely manner.
- Participate in all surgical quality/performance improvement initiatives.
Key Requirements:
- U.S. Citizenship (Non-citizens J-1 and H-1B may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.)
- Full unrestricted Licensure, Certification, or Registration required in ANY U.S. State.
- Board Certified or Board Eligible
Office Hours: 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday - Friday. On-Call as needed
VA physicians practice medicine more and spend less time on business tasks. Enjoy an environment that supports an interdisciplinary care team approach that delivers state-of-the-art medicine using some of the most advanced medical techniques and technologies in the Nation. Better Quality of Work/Life Balance! The VA knows that the first step to providing superior patient care is self-care. The quality of work/life balance VA physicians experience simply cannot be found in private practice.
Benefits of a VA Physician:
- Interdisciplinary care team model of practice
- Practice based on patient care needs, not insurance regulations.
- Diverse professional opportunities: clinical, leadership, education, research, and policy development
- Competitive salary
- 26 days annual paid vacation
- 13 sick days and 11 holidays
- Up to 10 Days paid absence to attend approved CME courses
- One license/50 states
- Generous health and retirement benefits
Community, Facility and Organization:
Wilkes-Barre is proud of its medical affiliations with top medical schools, supporting the VA's educational mission. Major medical affiliations are maintained with Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and the University of Maryland. More than 200 medical residents receive part of their training at this facility every year.
Wilkes-Barre, offers a wide variety of cultural events, excellent museums, low taxes, and beautiful public gardens.
If you or anyone you know may be interested in this opportunity, please submit CV to Trina Foley at [Register to View]
Qualifications
Schools of medicine accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) for the year in which the degree was granted, or
Schools of osteopathic medicine approved by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation of the American Osteopathic Association for the year in which the degree was granted.
For foreign medical graduates not covered in (1) or (2) above, facility officials must verify with the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) that the applicant has met requirements for certification, and must obtain a copy of the ECFMG certificate, if claimed by the applicant. [If the applicant does not claim an ECFMG certificate, facility officials must still confirm that the medical school meets (or met) ECFMG eligibility requirements for the year the candidate graduated.]
NOTE: The Under Secretary of Health or designee in the VHA Central Office may approve the appointment under authority of 38 U.S.C. 7405 of a physician graduate of a school of medicine not covered above if the candidate is to be assigned to a research, academic, or administrative position with no patient care responsibilities. The appointment will be made only in exceptional circumstances where the candidate's credentials clearly demonstrate high professional attainment or expertise in the specialty area.
Working Hours
VA physicians practice medicine more and spend less time on business tasks. Enjoy an environment that supports an interdisciplinary care team approach that delivers state-of-the-art medicine using some of the most advanced medical techniques and technologies in the Nation. Better Quality of Work/Life Balance! The VA knows that the first step to providing superior patient care is self-care. The quality of work/life balance VA physicians experience simply cannot be found in private practice.