Neurologist

Sleep Medicine Physician Opportunity

Creating a Better Quality of Life at One of the Best Places in the U.S. to Live! The Community Johnson City, Tennessee Voted one of the best cities to live in the United States in 2018, Johnson City has things to appreciate being alive for in abundance. Located in East Tennessee, Johnson City calls to the pioneer within to explore the best this city has to offer, all while surrounded by beautiful mountains and rivers. Here, history lives close to the surface. The construction of a railroad line from Bristol to Knoxville put Johnson City on the map in the mid-1800s. Entrepreneur Henry Johnson established a store and depot called Blue Plum, where steam engines took on water and passengers. Today, the historic downtown remains an epicenter for arts and entertainment with the Hands On! Regional Museum for kids and the shops, galleries and restaurants of Blue Plum Village. Explore Johnson City here!

About the Facility Mountain Home VAMC The James J. Quillen VA Medical Center was recently recognized by a national publication as a Top Hospital, earning the award for accomplishing recognition for the following criteria: communication between nurses and doctors as well as responsiveness of hospital staff, the cleanliness of the facility and hospital care within itself. This assessment of the hospital is based on the SMC HCAPS survey which is a survey related to patient perception of their experience of care in a hospital and so it genuinely comes directly from the veterans, making this award all the more meaningful. Being the only hospital in the state to receive a 5-star rating, this main campus provides primary care and specialty services including addiction and substance abuse treatment, cardiology, mental health care, women's health services, eye care, nutrition counseling, foot care, hospice and palliative care, and more. Facility Address: 809 Lamont St & Veterans Way, Johnson City, TN 37604

Requirements

• Provide services to include, but not be limited to diagnosing, treating and managing veteran patients with sleep disorders according to standard, usual and acceptable or customary methods and techniques.
• Work with physicians and technologists in the sleep program within the Department of Neurology. Responsibilities will include sleep clinic, reading sleep studies and teaching sleep fellows. In addition, the physician will participate in reading EEGs (routine and long term and other neurophysiologic studies.
• Work independently, caring for outpatients in an established sleep specialty clinic.
• Cooperate with and participate in medical duties or functions related to quality-of-care review and improvement.
• Work closely and collaboratively with all members of the Sleep Clinic team, and the Neurology department clinical and administrative staff.
• Participate in the general Neurology clinic and the inpatient Neurologist service, including ward service duties as attending physician, and on the inpatient consultation team.
• Participate in the teaching and supervision of Neurology residents and medical students and other trainees rotating through the Neurology service, and outside of the Neurology department within the VA Medical Center Sioux Falls.
• Participate in on-call duties for the Department of Neurology including weekend and evening/night-time hours as needed to fulfill his/her obligations in the clinical care of the patients.
• Participate in Sleep telehealth aspects including sleep telehealth visits.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Must be a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Osteopathy (D.O.) who has completed an internship and residency in an accredited Neurology Training Program and is board certified or board eligible in Neurology
• Must have and maintain a valid, unrestricted license in one of the 50 states in the U.S., the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• Must have a minimum of two years recent experience having been continuously employed in the practice of Neurology and possess fellowship training as a nerve muscular specialist or in electro diagnostics equivalent to one full year.
• Board Certified/Board Eligible in Neurology with special interest in sleep disorders and clinical neurophysiology.