Otolaryngologist - Head and Neck

Otolaryngologist

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This location consists of a 192-operating-bed VHA facility located in Central Oklahoma, serving 48 Oklahoma Counties and two counties in North Central Texas with a veteran population of over 225,000. The Oklahoma City VAMC also includes Community-Based Outpatient Clinics in Lawton, Ardmore, Stillwater, Altus, Ada, Enid, Blackwell, Oklahoma, and Wichita Falls, Texas. The Oklahoma City VAMC is also a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology as well as education and research. Comprehensive health care is provided through primary care, tertiary care, and long-term care in areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, oncology, dentistry, geriatrics, and extended care.

Facility Address: 921 NE 13th St, Oklahoma City, OK 73104

Responsibilities

• The General Otolaryngologist will also have specialized in Sleep Medicine, Rhinology/Sinus/Anterior Skull Base surgeries, to include:
• Nose and sinus, intranasal operations, antrotomy, ethmoidectomy, sphenoidectomy, polypectomy, submucous resection or septoplasty, fractures, frontal, mid facial, benign tumors/cysts, oral cavity and tongue, parotid, other salivary glands, neck, malignant tumors, external nose, nasal space, sinuses, oral cavity and tongue, mandible and adjacent structures, parotid, tonsillectomy, larynx, laryngoscopy (direct), hemilaryngectomy, laryngectomy, tracheotomy, stoma revision, tracheal-esophageal, esophageal dilation, radical cervical nose resection, facial soft tissue excision or repair, bronchoscopy, panendoscopy, endoscopic sinus surgery, excision cervical lymph node, medialization of TVC, vocal cord stripping, cricopharyngeal myotomy, debridement of wound, control of bleeding, pharyngocutaneous fistula closure, change of T tube, glottic closure, oropharyngeal, skin cancer of the head and neck, thyroid cancer, endocrine surgery of the head and neck, skull base surgery, free flap reconstruction.
• Shall provide clinical Otolaryngology services, be present on time for any scheduled clinics/surgeries as documented by physical presence in the clinic or operating room at the scheduled start time.
• Intraoperative follow-up: shall be present in the operating suite for all otolaryngology procedures.
• Postoperative follow-up: rounds shall be conducted on postoperative ENT patients in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit and on the wards.
• Physicians shall provide consultative services at the patient's bedside if the patient is not ambulatory and in the clinic setting if the patient is able to report to the outpatient clinic. Procedures shall be scheduled for completion within 30 days of the date of the consultation.
• Shall provide discharge education and follow-up instructions that are coordinated with the next setting for all Neurosurgery clinical or surgical patients. Physicians shall follow all inpatient care and discharges in accordance with VA Directives, Handbooks, and Policies.

Qualifications

• License: Any current, clean, and unrestricted license from any state is honored.
• Experience: At least 2 years of continuous working experience within the last 3 years.
• Must be currently certified in Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, or equivalent.
• Must have a DEA

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