Physician-Primary Care

Job Title

Physician

Location

Texas City, Texas

Job Description

The Michael E. DeBakey VA Health Care System is seeking an outstanding Physician to join our Primary Care and Community Clinics Care team. He/she will provide comprehensive primary care and preventative care to primary care patients, under the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) model. The type of care is served to the Veteran population with diseases consistent to those seen in the general population include, but are not limited to: acute and chronic illness, women's health, gender specific health care, mental health, and preventive care, along with coordination of care delivery. A major focus is in preventative medicine.

Benefits

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized for highly qualified candidates. Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Learn more. 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.

Duties

- Assess the needs and plan intervention for individuals/families; - Facilitates the delivery of primary, acute and chronic health care; - Assists individuals/families to achieve optimal levels of health through collaboration with medical and health care professionals; - Exercises medical decision-making and provides a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services for a specific group of patients; - Exhibits leadership in initiating changes in patient care programs based on current concepts and findings from research and/or studies; - Involved in direct patient care, patient and family teaching, staff education and multidisciplinary consultations and collaborations - Participates in education of PA students, NP, Residents, Medical Students, interns - Supervise mid-level practitioners as assigned - Consistently demonstrates expertise in diagnosing and treating seriously ill multisymptomatic patients; - Serves as a resource person for standards development in health care in the area of quality improvement concerns; - Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule

Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm with rotating day off; Includes extended hours and some Saturdays.