Cardiology - Interventional - Physician

Job Description

Join our Team at the Department of Veterans VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA as a Physician – Interventional Cardiologist!

The San Francisco VA Health Care System is seeking a highly skilled Interventional Cardiologist to join our Interventional Cardiology team at the SFVA Medical Center (SFVAMC). The SFVAHCS serves approximately 90,000 Veterans through the SFVAMC and nine community-based outpatient clinics. The SFVAMC is a tertiary academic medical center with around 5,000 inpatient stays annually, offering the full complement of inpatient, outpatient, and subspecialty care. In addition to our well-equipped cardiac cath lab, the full spectrum of CT Surgery is available on site. The Cardiology Section exists within the SFVAHCS Medical Service (Department of Medicine) and maintains an academic affiliation with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Duties

The successful candidate will provide comprehensive, high quality interventional cardiac care to our nation's Veterans, performing a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic coronary and structural procedures. Clinical work will focus primarily on interventional cardiology and will also include participation in general cardiology services.

In addition to direct patient care, this position carries a strong academic mission, with emphasis on teaching and supporting UCSF's general and interventional cardiology fellows, as well as the medical residents and students who commonly spend time at the SFVA. Opportunities for involvement in quality improvement, systems leadership, education, and research may also be available depending on the candidate's interests.

General duties include, but are not limited to:

• Perform the full spectrum of diagnostic and therapeutic interventional cardiac procedures. [DW1]
• Function as an attending physician on the inpatient cardiology consult service and the cardiac intensive care unit.
• Precept and/or see patients in the SFVA Cardiology Clinic.
• Interpret ECGs and ambulatory ECG monitors.

Supervise and teach general and interventional cardiology fellows, medical residents, and medical students who rotate on your services.

Benefits and Features

• Expected Salary Range from $345K - $400K (negotiable based on candidate's qualifications, credentials and experience)..
• Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Authorized.
• Work Schedule: Full-time. Schedule will be determined by supervisor.
• 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).
• 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.

We encourage you to consider VA employment in San Francisco, CA. We offer both a mission you can put your heart into and a home for fun, new experiences. Join a team that values a healthy home/work life balance and be rewarded by your role in keeping the promise to those who served.