Physician (Regular Ft)-Greenville Primary Care

Job Title

Physician

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Telework Eligible: Ad-hoc per agency policy.

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: 8:00am-4:30pm

Clinical

• Primary focus of practice is the independent clinical evaluation of Veterans through their panel of patients including prevention and patient self-management.
• Comprehensive primary care will be provided to male and female Veterans.
• Comprehensive primary care includes but is not limited to evaluating patients in an outpatient clinical setting to diagnose and treat acute and or chronic diseases, educating on health promotion and disease prevention and ensuring that health maintenance is up to date.
• Completes physical examinations, which maybe comprehensive, focused or gender specific to formulate treatment plans.
• Treatment plans are evidence based and engages in shared medical decision making of treatment plans.
• Maintains clinical knowledge and skills to provide comprehensive primary care services to male and female patients.
• Care may be provided in many modalities, from direct face to face care, virtual care (including telephonic, video, secured messaging and others)
• Promotes, directs, evaluates and is responsible for referrals of clinical concerns that are found during these evaluations.
• Functions as a member of a Patient Aligned Care Team, collaborating with clinical and administrative support to provide timely, quality, coordinated care for Veterans.
• Utilizes and promotes approved standards of care, procedures, methods and techniques, safety precautions and protocols in their application to this population in all settings.
• Collaborates with other health care resources to ensure continuity of care.
• Keeps abreast of latest trends, skills, procedures, and protocols relevant to primary care and serves as a resource person for the medical center staff.
• Participates in continuous medical education as per requirements with topics included but not limited to opioid prescribing and trainings to fulfill and maintain designated women's health primary care provider.
• May provide coverage for other providers in clinic or other primary care clinics if needed or assigned.
• Exemplifies the ICARE core values of-Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence.

Administrative

• Assists with arranging continuity of care across the VHA system as needed.
• Works to provide team leadership on site to ensure care is completed in required timeframes.
• Participates in Quality Improvement activities.
• Participates and attends medical center committees as assigned by the Associate Chief of Staff (ACOS) Ambulatory Care Service.