Physician - Primary Care (Float)

Physician Position

The Marion VA Primary Care team is seeking a Physician to serve as the float provider! This position can be located at the Evansville, Owensboro, Effingham, Vincennes, Mt. Vernon, Carbondale, or Marion facility and is expected to travel to other locations. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. Duties include but are not limited to:

• Travel to Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC's) for patient coverage
• Diagnose, treat and manage a panel of patients
• Provider comprehensive patient-centered primary medical care
• Identify acute/non-acute, chronic health problems
• Use principles of risk management to identify system issues which impact patient care
• Order and evaluate appropriate diagnostic tests
• Adhere to clinical practice guidelines for patient chronic disease
• Conduct appropriate preventative screens and diagnostic tests
• Provider appropriate disposition of identified health care problems
• Participate in Primary Care multidisciplinary activities
• Inform Veterans to accomplish shared decision making in medical treatment/regimens
• Demonstrate medical expertise in diagnosing and treating multi-symptomatic patients
• Adhere to local policies, procedures and directives related to timeliness of documentation and encounters for verification of patient visits, findings, and medical recommendations in the electronic medical record
• Use Computerized Patient Record System to review and update patient's electronic medical record
• Maintain view alerts
• Utilization of Telehealth services
• Supervise mid-levels

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm. Travel time included in tour of duty. May include extended hours or an occasional Saturday based on patient needs. Due to the nature of the work, the Physician may occasionally be required to stay later than 4:30pm, as required.

Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases

Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)

Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided

Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting