Emergency Medicine Chief

Chief Of Emergency Medicine

Join Our Team as a Chief of Emergency Medicine at Harry S. Truman VAMC in Columbia, MO. Are you dedicated and passionate about providing exceptional care to our nation's heroes? Look no further, VAMC in beautiful Columbia, MO, is the place.

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Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

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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: Variable schedule; 40 hours/week

Scope of Duties The Chief of the Emergency Medicine Department at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital reports directly to the Deputy Chief of Staff and is responsible for the clinical and administrative functions of the Emergency Department. The incumbent is responsible for participation and oversight of staff physicians/providers (to include Physician Assistants) regarding patient care performance measures, compliance, training, and performance improvement, recruitment and retention of highly qualified and experienced providers, participation in various Medical Center committees to ensure performance measures are met, and compliance with applicable rules and regulations. The incumbent will also serve as a staff Emergency Department physician. The incumbent will be responsible for all aspects of medical care delivered to patients in the Emergency Department. It is expected that the incumbent will spend 75% of his/her time in a clinical role and 25% in an administrative role.

Duties may include but not limited to the following:

• Representing the Emergency Department at all applicable hospital administrative and patient care meetings.
• Meeting with all providers in the Emergency Department regularly to review protocols, procedures, expectations for transported/transferred patients, including minor trauma victims.
• Monitoring established VA/VISN/Joint Commission, etc, performance measures and identified goals for the Emergency Department (e.g. physician report card), and provide providers with group and individual feedback on how to improve and/or sustain achieved success in such metrics/measures.
• Work with the VA Utilization Management (UM)/Quality Improvement (QI) department staff to monitor the preadmission screening process and its success in impacting InterQual appropriate inpatient admission/observation status utilization performance measures.