Physician - Interventional Radiologist

Interventional Radiologist

The Interventional Radiologist is charged with delivering the best possible care to our Veterans. This care must be delivered in accordance with hospital policy, meeting or exceeding national standards and VHA national benchmarks. Assigned duties and responsibilities are performed throughout the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center, often in a close interdisciplinary arrangement and consultation with other clinical services such as the Department of Surgery, Internal Medicine, Primary Care, Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine etc. Interdisciplinary collaborative care implies active participation in interdisciplinary conferences and adherence to interdisciplinary care and treatment strategy decisions. The successful candidate acts as a cooperative and collegial team member with the entire medical center staff. Duties include but not limited to:

• Maintains current medical knowledge, technical skills, and excellent diagnostic, judgmental, and therapeutic acumen.
• Assures that the procedural indication is adequate (e.g. based on American College of Radiology appropriateness criteria) and that physician related work-up, periprocedural and post-procedural follow-up care are of adequate quality, patient centric and safe. This includes but is not limited to, collaboration and good communication with the Emergency Department, Subspecialty Services and/or Clinics, potentially admitting patients to the hospital, caring for the patient as inpatients and/or following the patient clinically.
• Performs vascular and interventional radiological procedures in a safe, cost sensitive/resource optimizing, technically adequate and generally peer accepted manner that meets general national standards and patient needs in a timely manner.
• Participates in on-call physician coverage to meet patient care responsibilities in Vascular and interventional radiology.
• Exercises corporate citizenship and meets high standard of responsiveness, collegial professional interaction, and the core tenets of mutual respect in all professional encounters.
• Participates in development and implementation of systems redesigns projects, quality improvements and assurance programs of VIR services as well as initiatives designed to improve overall quality through evidence-based medicine and peer review.
• Participates and facilitates implementation of modern care, utilization of new technologies and new procedures. This includes but is not limited to potentially required personal technical training and education, preparation, review, and finalization of the corresponding standard of care protocols, related and adequate staff instructions and teaching, related literature searches as well as topic and procedure related presentations for appropriate audiences.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards.

Recruitment & Relocation Incentive (Sign-On Bonus): May be available to highly qualified applicants.

Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) Authorized: This position is eligible for EDRP, a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of your start date. Program approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application. Former participants are ineligible to apply for the EDRP incentive. Contact View email address on click.appcast.io for questions or assistance 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

Work Schedule: Monday- Friday; 8:00am - 4:30pm