Radiologist-Physician

Robert J Dole VA Medical Center is hiring a full time Radiologist to serve Veteran patients of the facility. The incumbent may be asked to provide care in various settings to include outpatient clinics, inpatient units, and in the emergency department.

The duties and responsibilities includes, but are not limited to, the following:

• Responsible for all aspects of medical care and provide or assist residents and technologists in the process of imaging, evaluation and treatment of radiology patients

• Interprets and signs imaging exams, reviews and signs (and edits if appropriate) their assigned radiology resident's exams and adds amendments (if needed); all in a timely fashion

• Expected to promptly call any critical findings, as detailed in the current facility critical results policy, to a responsible provider with appropriate notation in the imaging report

• Expected to interpret most studies in the following modalities: nuclear radiology, radiography, CT, and ultrasound

• Expected to perform fluoroscopy exams such as esophagrams, upper GIs, and barium enemas

• Responsible to coordinate with providers within their own and outside of their own service line, and with other VHA facilities or community providers as determined by the plan of care for the veteran

• Staff within radiology settings perform consultations within their own and other service lines as indicated

• Expected to oversee the administration of iodinated, barium, and gadolinium contrast; work with ionizing radiation during fluoroscopic and CT guided procedures; work and direct administration of ionizing materials; and answer any questions regarding MRI safety and the safe imaging of women of child-bearing age