Physician- Primary Care

Job Title

Provision of general medical/primary care managing both common and complex illnesses.

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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

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This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. This position is located at the Warren County VA Clinic at 3 Farm Colony Drive Warren, PA 16365-5209

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Description: Provision of general medical/primary care managing both common and complex illnesses.

• Perform history and physical examination
• Evaluate, diagnose, provide generalist/primary care consultation, medically manage, and treat adult patients.
• Perform pre-operative evaluation
• Supervision of medical residents and medical students
• Obtain informed consent in conformance with organization policies and procedures.

Procedures

• Arthrocentesis, aspiration and/or injection, knee, with or without image guidance
• Cryotherapy of skin lesions
• Develop acupuncture plan. Use of needles, electric stimulators, and heat in treatment. (Includes cupping, dry needling)
• Diagnose, treat, and prevent illness or injury by use of manual therapy to improve the impaired or altered function of the musculo-skeletal system (somatic dysfunction).
• Foreign body removal
• Management of epistaxis including placement of posterior nasal hemostatic packing and anterior nasal cautery and/or packing to control nasal hemorrhage (epistaxis)
• Pap smear and endocervical culture
• Perform simple skin biopsy or excision
• Preliminary interpretation of EKG and imaging studies
• Skin excision, including biopsy and lesion removal
• Skin lesions removal utilizing hyfrecator
• Treatment of burns, superficial and partial thickness
• Trigger point injection, injection of lateral shoulder region
• Wound care, incision and drainage of abscess, simple debridement, aspiration, wound closure, and local anesthetic techniques

Special Privileges

It should be noted that all physicians care for patients with these characteristics. However, this delineation is intended to set physicians with formal training and/or experience in this area apart from the generalist and to establish them as expert consultants in this field.

• Evaluate, diagnose, provide treatment, consultation and medically manage patients with procedural and non-procedural pain complaints (i.e., chronic and cancer pain).
• Compensation and pension (Registration with the DMA Required)

Special Procedures

Criteria for special procedures: applicants must meet criteria for core privileges, outlined above. Specialized training required.

• Battlefield Acupuncture (BFA Training Requirements Required)
• NADA (Must be allowable within limits of the State of Licensure. NADA Training Requirements Required)

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:00am - 4:00pm

Telework: Ad-Hoc, may be authorized at Management's discretion