Physician ( Anesthesiology)

Responsibilities

• Provides contemporary regional and general anesthesia care including pediatric, geriatric patients; obstetric anesthesia; and anesthesia for all surgical specialties at the MTF in a variety of surgical patients.
• Performs the most advanced diagnostic and treatment procedures without professional direction.
• Assignsments involve the full range of cases and problems including the very difficult.
• Administers anesthesia to patients whose condition poses a particular anesthetic difficulty.
• Serves as consultant for the administration of anesthesia by nurse anesthetist.
• Administers appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic nerve blocks in the treatment of acute and chronic pain.
• Oversees the activities of the recovery room and administers appropriate drug and respiratory therapy in the recovery room setting.
• Serves as adjunct faculty of the U.S. Army Graduate Program in Anesthesia Nursing Phase II.
• Responsible for the nursing anesthesia staff, nursing anesthesia students.
• Serves as adjunct faculty of the U.S. Army Graduate Program in Anesthesia Nursing Phase II.
• Supervises, teaches, and counsels medical students, resident physicians, and dental fellows rotating through the Anesthesiology Service in the proper administration of anesthesia.
• Assumes a teaching role in the student anesthetist program.
• Helps direct and administrate the responsibilities of the Anesthesia and Operative Services.
• Coordinates the Operating Room Services with physicians, nurses and technicians.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship required
• Board Certified/Eligible
• Must possess a current, active, full, and unrestricted license or registration as a Physician from a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.

Benefits

• Robust Federal Benefits: Exceptional retirement plans, step-increase structures, up to 26 days of paid vacation, and 11 paid federal holidays.
• Licensure Portability: Because it is a federal facility, providers can practice at Womack with a valid, unrestricted license from any of the 50 U.S. states.