Neurologist

Neurologist – MD/DO

It's easy to point to all the accolades Sioux Falls has received over the years, but the numbers don't tell the whole story. Sioux Falls is a vibrant, forward looking community filled with engaged and friendly people. Sioux Falls has a focus on community, where you can get that small-town feel, without giving up those "big city" amenities. Sioux Falls is dynamic, ambitious and motivated, but never fails to value individuality of its residents, and the growth and security of its families.

Area Information - Travel and Leisure - Population: 200,000 Airport – Sioux Falls Regional (FSD) – United, American, Allegiant, Delta (Direct to nine cities)

Sioux Falls VA Health Care System includes a 98-bed medical center and five Community Based Outpatient Clinics. It provides inpatient and outpatient care for Veterans in eastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa. Services include primary and specialty medical care, mental health services, and rehabilitation. Affiliated with The Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, it supports residency programs in internal medicine, psychiatry, and pathology, plus a fellowship in geriatrics. In addition, the facility also has a pharmacy residency. The Dakotas Regional Office is co-located with the medical center. SFVAMC 2501 W. 22nd Street Sioux Falls, SD 57105

Requirements (duties include but are not limited to)

• Provide services to include, but not be limited to diagnosing, treating and managing veteran patients with Sleep Disorders according to standard, usual and acceptable or customary methods and techniques.
• Work with physicians and technologists in the sleep program within the Department of Neurology. Responsibilities will include sleep clinic, reading sleep studies and teaching sleep fellows. In addition the physician will participate in reading EEGs (routine and long term and other neurophysiologic studies.
• Work independently, caring for outpatients in an established sleep specialty clinic.
• Cooperate with and participate in medical duties or functions related to quality of care review and improvement.
• Work closely and collaboratively with all members of the Sleep Clinic team, and the Neurology department clinical and administrative staff.
• Participate in the general Neurology clinic and the inpatient Neurologist service, including ward service duties as Attending physician, and on the inpatient consultation team.
• Participate in the teaching and supervision of Neurology residents and Medical students and other trainees rotating through the Neurology service, and outside of the Neurology department within the VA Medical Center Sioux Falls..
• Participate in on-call duties for the Department of Neurology including weekend and evening/night-time hours as needed to fulfill his/her obligations in the clinical care of the patients.
• Participate in Sleep telehealth aspects including sleep telehealth visits.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Must be a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Osteopathy (D.O.) who has completed an internship and residency in an accredited Neurology Training Program and is board certified or board eligible in Neurology
• Must have and maintain a valid, unrestricted license in one of the 50 states in the U.S., the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• Must have a minimum of two years recent experience having been continuously employed in the practice of Neurology and possess fellowship training as a nerve muscular specialist or in electro diagnostics equivalent to one full year.
• Board Certified/Board Eligible in Neurology with special interest in Sleep disorders and clinical neurophysiology.

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