Physician (Gastroenterology) - Recruitment/Relocation Incentive May be Authorized, EDRP Authorized

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This is an Open Continuous Announcement and will remain open until June 12, 2026, or until all positions are filled. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur on an as-needed basis until positions are filled. Applicants will remain active for 3 months after their initial application is received and/or updated. After that time, you must update your application through your USAJobs account if you would like to be made active again for possible consideration during the open period.

Administrative Duties

• Leadership: participation in staff meetings when available during tour of duty, hospital committees, and peer review process. Demonstrate effective communication both down to staff and up to leadership, to include heads up (for acute patient bad outcomes) and issue briefs, potentially acting as Section Chief when the Section Chief is on leave.
• Human Resources: Maintaining Veterans Affairs (VA) training requirements, timely completion of documentation and upkeep of credentials required for privileging and re-privileging.
• Staff Management: Participate in the Focused Professional Practice Evaluations (FPPE)/Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations (OPPE) process. Adheres to employee health requirements. Participate in clinical pertinence reviews (routine medical record reviews).
• Time/Leave Management: Adherence to tour of duties, timely requests for leave in Veterans Affairs Time and Attendance System and for clinic cancellations.
• Clinical Management including indirect patient care: open encounter and consult management, Computerized Patient Record System documentation rules and requirements, adherence to clinic procedures for patient scheduling and access, ensuring staff productivity, oversight of relevant performance measures, and participation in the development of the new focus on the Medical Home and Patient Centric Care, Utilization, Quality, and Patient Safety oversight, process improvement (system redesign).

Clinical Duties

• Patient Care: Practitioners are expected to provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, treatment of disease, and care at the end of life.
• Practitioners are expected to provide inpatient and consult service during off tours (nights, weekends, and holidays, as needed by the organization).
• Medical/Clinical Knowledge: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate knowledge of established and evolving biomedical, clinical and social sciences, and the application of their knowledge to patient care and the education of others.
• Clinical Judgment: To ensure practice-based learning and improvement, practitioners are expected to be able to use scientific evidence and methods to investigate, evaluate, and improve patient care.
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that enable them to establish and maintain professional relationships with patients, families, and other members of the health care team.

Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday - Friday, 0800 - 1630, includes weekends and on-call

Telework: Ad-hoc Only

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus) or Relocation Incentive: May be authorized for highly qualified individual

Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Learn more.

EDRP Authorized: Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) Authorized - see "Benefits" section

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

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