Physician (Attending Surgeon) Vascular Surgery

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Duties include but are not limited to the following:

Consultations:

• Reviewing and providing consultations promptly.
• Seeing new outpatients with nonemergent problems within 30 days.
• Seeing inpatient consultations and patients with urgent conditions promptly.

Patient transfer requests:

• Evaluate and response promptly by direct communication with referring providers and transfer coordinators at CGVAMC.

Evaluate outpatients in:

• The Vascular Surgery clinic and Vascular surgery post operative clinic.
• Work with wound therapy nurses in inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Read and interpret studies generated in the Noninvasive Laboratory promptly.
• Prepare patient for operative management.
• Follow the standard of care and established policies including the marking of operative sites, performing preoperative briefings and Time-Out assessments prior to the commencement of any operation.
• Keep patients' families or designated surrogates well informed of the patients condition and progress. This is to include a postoperative conversation informing them of the findings, conduct of the operation, expected results and areas of concern.
• Care for inpatients on the Vascular Surgery Service in the operating room, intensive care unit and ward.
• Arrange dispositions for follow up appointments for patients prior to discharge.
• Attend and present at morbidity and mortality conferences.
• Provide summaries of all deaths using the required reporting format.

Medical Record Duties:

• Outpatient consultation reports and progress notes.
• Inpatient progress notes- daily notes on patients in the intensive care unit.
• History and Physical examinations.
• Operative Reports
• View alerts
• Keep up with new developments in the vascular literature, and maintain the required CME activities.
• Participate in performance improvement projects.

Participate in resident education and supervision in the:

• Outpatient clinics.
• Emergency Department.
• Inpatient settings.
• Operating room.

Participate in Surgical Resident Preparation and Evaluation:

• At the beginning of the rotation, this includes a review of duties and expectations.
• Review of performance at mid-rotations and provide feedback.
• Exit interview and final evaluation at the end of the rotation.

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

Work Schedule: Intermittent Weekends, Days, Nights & Holidays (According to the needs of the facility)

US Department of Veterans Affairs