Job Summary
Job Description
We are seeking a Urologist to join our team in the scenic & sunny - Southern Arizona, Tucson- VA Health Care System.
Our team of healthcare professionals are deeply experienced and guided by the needs of our veterans, their families, and caregivers.
The Tucson VA Medical Center is a 295-bed hospital that provides training, primary care, and sub-specialty health care in numerous medical areas for eligible Veterans. It is the "Flagship" for the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS), which serves over 170,000 veterans located in eight counties in Southern Arizona comprised of the medical center in Tucson, Arizona and seven Community Based Outpatient Clinics in Casa Grande, Green Valley, Safford, Sierra Vista, Yuma, Northwest, and Southeast Tucson.
It is also a Joint Commission-accredited, level 1a complexity teaching hospital, providing tertiary-level care. The SAVAHCS offers a beautiful 150-acre campus with a full range of medical and mental health services for Veterans, including a 31-bed inpatient psychiatry/substance use acute treatment unit, a 25-bed mental health residential rehabilitation treatment program for substance use disorders (SUD) and PTSD treatment, intensive outpatient programs for SUD and PTSD, homeless programs, and more. The SAVAHCS operates a 24-hour emergency department and is the host site for various regional referral centers of excellence, including the Polytrauma Network Site, the Southwest Blind Rehabilitation Center, and the Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program (MHRRTP). The SAVAHCS is the principal teaching affiliate of the University of Arizona Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy. Annually, nearly 1,000 physicians and associated health trainees participate in health care training programs at the SAVAHCS.
Job Responsibilities
The successful candidate is expected to provide a full range of Urology services to our Veterans, however, major duties include, but are not limited to the following:
• Performs urological surgical procedures on patients, including related admission, consultation, and work-up, preoperative, and postoperative care to correct or treat various conditions, illnesses, and injuries.
• Makes preliminary diagnosis; directs, prescribes, or provides treatment, arranges for specialized care or patient referral as required.
• Provides comprehensive urologic care including prevention, health maintenance, early diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up services to patients.
• Performs procedures in the Urology clinic such as cystoscopy, prostate biopsies.
• Performs robotic and non-robotic Urologic procedures in the operating room.
• Management of patients during their inpatient course, using consultants when appropriate and performs inpatient consultations on patients from other services.
• Conducts outpatient clinics; reviews patients' medications, diet, course of therapy, adherence to management plan and patient observations; modifies management plan as indicated; and instructs and counsels patients as required.
• Serves as a consultant to primary care physicians and accepts referrals and outpatient consultations from other providers.
• Refers patients as appropriate; works closely with allied health professionals; and participates in the Surgical Department Quality Assurance and Peer Review programs.
• Actively participates in Emergency and On-Call schedule.
• Establish professional working relationships with other clinical service providers within the center and outlying Community Base Outpatient Clinics (CBOCS), providing telephone and e-consultations, consultations as needed and screening consults that are received for appropriateness prior to scheduling.
Qualifications
• United States Citizenship
• Non-US Citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified US Citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in medicine or osteopathic medicine
• Current, full, and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in all the US States
• Must be Board Certified/Board Eligible in Orthopedic Surgery
• Successful completion of Residency Training in the USA
• Preferred Experience:
Extensive Orthopedic Surgery experience
Specialization in foot and ankle surgery, with a fellowship in this area highly desired.
Experience managing routine orthopedic trauma cases when on call.
Fellowship training in foot and ankle surgery is strongly preferred and should be able to perform ankle arthroplasties in addition to other foot and ankle cases.
Working Hours
Skills
Extensive Orthopedic Surgery experience
Specialization in foot and ankle surgery, with a fellowship in this area highly desired.
Experience managing routine orthopedic trauma cases when on call.
Fellowship training in foot and ankle surgery is strongly preferred and should be able to perform ankle arthroplasties in addition to other foot and ankle cases.