Staff Physician- Pathology and Laboratory

Job Title

Pathologist

Location

John D. Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan

Duties

The extent of duties performed by the staff pathologist in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Detroit VA Healthcare system is dependent on the individual's documented training, certification, and credentialing. The potential breadth of duties includes:

• Surgical pathology: Derive diagnoses from gross and microscopic examination of tissues and other materials submitted by biopsy or surgical procedures. This includes interpretation of tissues submitted intraoperatively for frozen section diagnosis. Advanced subspecialty training in surgical pathology may provide additional expertise.
• Hematopathology: Provide expert hematologic diagnostic interpretations of blood, bone marrow, lymph node and fluid preparations. Provide interpretations of serum and urine electrophoreses.
• Dermatopathology: Provide expert diagnostic interpretation of inflammatory, melanocytic and non-melanocytic lesions in skin biopsies and excisions.
• Genitourinary pathology: Provide expert diagnostic interpretation of diseases involving the urinary and reproductive organs.
• Gastrointestinal pathology: Provide expert diagnostic interpretation of diseases involving the oral-esophageal, stomach, upper and lower intestinal tract as well as liver and pancreas.
• Clinical Pathology: Understand organization and principles of clinical laboratory testing. Provide consultation regarding chemistry analytic, hematologic, microbiologic, molecular diagnostic and blood bank issues. Advanced subspecialty training in clinical pathology may provide additional expertise.
• Transfusion medicine: Provide expert consultation and guidance regarding blood product transfusion issues.
• Molecular diagnostics: Provide expert consultation and guidance regarding molecular genetic testing and interpretations.
• Autopsy pathology: Derive cause of death and identify diseased tissues by post-mortem necropsy and tissue examination. This function includes supervision of dieners and resident pathologists.
• Cytopathology: Derive diagnoses from microscopic examination of cellular material from gynecologic and non-gynecologic sources prepared for cytologic examination. This includes assessment of specimen adequacy and examination of prepared cell-block material. Duties may also include performance of fine-needle aspiration of palpable nodules.
• Administrative: Participate in laboratory oversight to the extent assigned and serve on institutional level committees and workgroups.
• Quality: Meet defined service and institutional level quality performance measures. Participate in or initiate laboratory or institutional quality improvement and management programs.
• Educational: Provide teaching, supervision and guidance of technologists, technicians fellows and pathology residents in the aspects of the clinical duties described above. Participate in interdisciplinary educational conferences involving clinical pathologic correlation.
• Research: Support VHA research mission through participation in collaborative or self-initiated research projects.

Benefits

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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: Monday thru Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm