Physician Emergency Department Director/Assistant Chief of Medical Service

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide direct patient care specific to subspecialty in the inpatient and ambulatory clinic settings.
• Provide timely screening and resolution of consultations from other disciplines in the inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Provide a full range of therapeutic interventions specific to subspecialty including endoscopic procedures to units/programs in the Medical Center to which they are assigned and have clinical privileges to practice including diagnostic assessment, medication evaluation and management.
• Order diagnostic tests and discriminate between normal and abnormal findings and makes appropriate treatment decisions.
• Document care in the medical record in keeping with the bylaws of the Medical Center.
• Supervise residents, fellows, medical students, NP/PA students, as appropriate, who are assigned to Medical Service.
• Supervise the clinical care on the inpatient service and ambulatory clinic of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants as appropriate.
• Participate effectively in team meetings and treatment planning conferences, and collaborate with multidisciplinary team members in a manner that enhances coordination of comprehensive patient care.
• Provide weekend and holiday coverage of the medical inpatient service in rotation at a frequency determined by the Chief of Medicine or Chief of Staff.
• Ensure that the practice of medicine is consistent with Joint Commission, CARF, VA policies and procedures, clinical practice guidelines, VISN standards, national statutes and regulations, medical record documentation, mandatory continuing education, and HIPPA policies.
• Perform chart reviews as part of Peer Reviews, measures and monitors, and in preparation to congressional inquiries.
• Serve as Service level Patient Advocate with goal of service recovery.
• Deliver in-services training for medical center disciplines and services, teach medical residents, medical students and fellows, and support an environment that promotes excellence in health care and encourages continual learning.
• Participate in labor management process to provide conflict resolution.
• Be assigned special projects based on individual competence and is responsible for all other duties assigned based on organizational needs.

Qualifications

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• Residency Training: Physicians must have completed residency training, approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification.
• Education: Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from an institution whose accreditation was in place for the year in which the course of study was completed.
• Physical Requirements: The incumbent must be able to perform all activities of the position without restriction. This position may involve standing, walking, stooping, bending, reaching, lifting, and turning. The work may involve going up and down flights of stairs.