Neurologist

Job Opportunity at Lebanon VA Medical Center

This historic city is in need of your talents and skills...

Lebanon, long known as a conflict zone, can make for an adventurous holiday destination as long as you stay abreast of local security issues. The country is steeped in centuries of complex and intriguing history and culture, evidenced by the plethora of ruins and museums to tell the tale, the site of some of the world's most beautiful beaches and nature reserves; all while also home to a people so hospitable and welcoming that travelers will not want to leave. Explore Lebanon Lebanon is a beautiful country and diverse enough to make for a varied experience. With mountains, nature reserves and coastal areas, it has enough to offer even the most hardened of travelers. While many areas are off limits due to the political situation, the area is destined to become an attractive and off-the-beaten path vacation spot once the security improves.

Lebanon VA Medical Center is located in Pennsylvania Dutch country and is one of 9 medical centers in VISN 4. The nine other facilities are Philadelphia, Coatesville, Wilkes-Barre, Altoona, Pittsburgh, Butler, and Erie in Pennsylvania, as well as Wilmington, Delaware, and Clarksburg, West Virginia. VAMC Lebanon's main campus is located in South Lebanon Township, 3 miles outside the city of Lebanon and approximately 30 miles east of Harrisburg, the state capital, and 30 minutes from the cities of Hershey, Reading, Lancaster, and York. Six Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) are located in Camp Hill, York, Reading, Lancaster, Pottsville, and Frackville, PA. Care is available to over 174,000 Veterans from nine growing counties in South Central Pennsylvania.

Requirements

• 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 as defined by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).
• 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.
• Must have ACLS, BLS, CPRS and VA (MANDATORY).

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