Physician (Endocrinologist)

About the role

The VAMC in Lexington, Kentucky is recruiting for an Endocrinologist to serve as a full-time medical service physician. The position is accountable to the Chief of Medicine, for assuring the most effective delivery of state-of-the-art care by meeting or exceeding compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Provides Inpatient Endocrinology consults and follow-up
• Outpatient Endocrinology consults and follow-up
• Evaluation of patients with a variety of Endocrinology conditions
• Performance of Endocrinology procedures
• Outpatient evaluation and management of endocrinology conditions
• Consult management using various modalities of care - i.e., outpatient, VA Video Connect, Telephone, E-consult
• Management of patients requiring diabetes related treatment
• Reviews no-shows, contacts patients for abnormal lab tests, reviews requests for refill
• Provides ongoing care for patients with a wide variety of Endocrinology conditions
• Affirms expertise in leadership and initiative in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others, ensuring compliance with the mission, vision, and values of the medical center
• Facilitates and promotes the delivery of high quality of care to the Endocrinology patient population
• Facilitates and promotes staff interaction with the patients and significant others
• Develops a comprehensive, individualized plan of care based on assessment of the patient's needs
• Maintains a voluntary or joint faculty appointment with the affiliate university to supervise fellows and residents in training

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.
• Approved residencies are:
• Those approved by the accrediting bodies for graduate medical education, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or American Osteopathic Association (AOA), in the list published for the year the residency, or fellowship if applicable, was completed;
• One year of post medical school training (internship, first year of residency, or transitional year residency) approved by ACGME or AOA followed by two years of post-training independent practice (performing under a full and unrestricted license) in the United States;
• Non-US residency training programs followed by a minimum of three years of verified independent practice in the United States (performing under a full and unrestricted license) performing duties related to the position they are applying for (United States fellowships would be creditable towards this requirement), which the local Medical Staff Executive Committee deems to have provided the applicant with appropriate professional training and believes has exposed the Physician to an appropriate range of patient care experiences.