Excellent Urologist Physician Opportunity!
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Last updated: 4/18/25
This is a full-time Urology opportunity located in the heart of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle at the Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in historic Berkeley County, a part of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley.
This opportunity is approximately 85 miles West of Baltimore, Maryland, and 75 miles Northwest of Washington DC. Martinsburg VA Medical Center has approximately 42,000 Veterans enrolled. Our catchment area includes West Virginia, Western Maryland, Southern Western Pennsylvania, and Northern Virginia.
Martinsburg VA Medical Center comprises the main medical campus in Martinsburg and seven Community Based Outpatient Centers; and provides care to veterans from a wide variety of socioeconomic, multicultural, and educational backgrounds.
This opportunity is approximately 85 miles West of Baltimore, Maryland, and 75 miles Northwest of Washington DC. Martinsburg VA Medical Center has approximately 42,000 Veterans enrolled. Our catchment area includes West Virginia, Western Maryland, Southern Western Pennsylvania, and Northern Virginia.
Martinsburg VA Medical Center comprises the main medical campus in Martinsburg and seven Community Based Outpatient Centers; and provides care to veterans from a wide variety of socioeconomic, multicultural, and educational backgrounds.
Job Responsibilities
- Comprehensive care of ambulatory patients in the outpatient Urology clinic as well as care of all inpatients and patients presenting to the Emergency Department.
- Performs clinic examinations, manages new patient consultations, diagnosis and treatment.
- Participates in the operating room commensurate with technical abilities: performs preoperative and post-operative evaluation for surgical patients.
- Participates in the team approach to ensure appropriate patient assessments, anticipates patient care needs, prevents avoidable complications, and achieves optimal patient conditions.
- Adheres to surgical care in accordance with ethical principles.
- Performs appropriate charting including timely documentation of patient assessment and plan of care.
- Participates in committees if requested.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
1. United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit
qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
2. Education: Degree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education
in medicine or osteopathic medicine.
3. Licensure and Registration: Physicians must possess 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. The physician must maintain current registration in the state of licensure if this is a
requirement for continuing active, current licensure.
4. 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. (NOTE: VA physicians involved in training programs may be required to be board certified
for faculty status.) Approved residencies are:
(1) Those approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), b) OR
(2) Those approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA),OR
(3) Other residencies (non-US residency training programs followed by a minimum of five years of
verified practice in the United States), which the local Medical Staff Executive Committee deems
to have provided the applicant with appropriate professional training and believes has exposed
the physician to an appropriate range of patient care experiences.
Residents currently enrolled in ACGME/AOA accredited residency training programs and who would otherwise meet the basic requirements for appointment are eligible to be appointed as "Physician Resident Providers" (PRPs). PRPs must be fully licensed physicians (i.e., not a training license) and may only be appointed on an intermittent or fee-basis. PRPs are not considered independent practitioners and will not be privileged; rather, they are to have a "scope of practice" that allows them to perform certain restricted duties under supervision. Additionally, surgery residents in gap years may also be appointed as PRPs.
5. Board Certification by the American Board of Urology.
Working Hours
Skills
-Review and interpret diagnostic tests and take appropriate action
-Formulate and record diagnostic impressions
-Ensure accurate documentation of medical assessments, interactions and observations.
- Demonstrates competent and effective oral and written communication and provides appropriate
patient/family member teaching and education.
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