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

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for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

  for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. Avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". No Pay/Schedule/Benefits unless posting actually states them. We need to parse the posting. Key content: - Summary: EDRP eligibility, eligibility requirements, award amount up to $200,000, eligibility period one to five years, determined by VHA Education Loan Repayment Services after review. Former EDRP participants ineligible. - Qualifications: Basic requirements: US citizenship, degree of doctor of medicine or equivalent from VA-approved school, current full unrestricted license to practice medicine/surgery in a state/territory/DC, residency training: physicians must have completed residency training approved by Secretary of VA in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification. Then details about approved residencies: (1) ACGME/AOA approved; (2) one year post med school training + two years independent practice; (3) non-US residency + three years verified independent practice in US performing duties related to position, deemed appropriate by Medical Staff Executive Committee. Exceptions: residents currently enrolled in ACGME/AOA accredited residency programs eligible as PRPs, etc. Proficiency in spoken and written English. Preferred Experience: Board certified or board eligible in Gastroenterology and Hepatology; recent experience providing in- and outpatient care of GI and hepatology patients in a complexity level 1a facility; proficient in general endoscopic procedures; EUS and ERCP not required; recent VA experience preferred but not required; recent exposure to an academic education environment. - Duties: This is an Open Continuous Announcement & 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 must update application through USAJobs account if want to be made active again for possible consideration during the open period. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package VHA Physician Total Rewards. 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 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: The staff Gastroenterologist is expected to remain privileged and practicing in their specialty field; The exact privileges and procedures for a particular provider will be approved by the Professional Standards Board; All physicians must meet the following qualifications: 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. We need to decide sections. We have: - About the role? Not explicitly present. Could combine summary about EDRP and maybe role description. But we need to follow instruction: Use

  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should include sections only if posting has real specific content. We have content for: - Qualifications (basic requirements, preferred experience). That's definitely a section. - Responsibilities/Duties: we have Administrative Duties, Clinical Duties, etc. Could be "Responsibilities". That includes duties. - Benefits: we have EDRP info (Education Debt Reduction Program) and also total rewards package details (PTO, retirement, insurance, licensure, CME, malpractice, contract). Also Pay info. So we could have Benefits section covering EDRP, total rewards, etc. Pay could be separate if posting states pay specifics: "Competitive salary - annual performance bonus - regular salary increases". That's specific enough to make a Pay section. Schedule: "Full-time - Monday - Friday - 0800 - 1630 - includes weekends and on-call; Telework: Ad-hoc Only". That's specific, so Schedule section. - Skills: maybe not explicitly listed; we have "Proficiency in spoken and written English" and "Interpersonal and Communication Skills". Could be under Skills but we may not need separate Skills section if not enough content. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine Skills into Qualifications or Responsibilities. But we have a separate "Skills" heading in the list of possible headings; we can omit if not enough. Thus sections: Qualifications, Responsibilities, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to ensure we don't repeat job title. No headings for Job ID. We need to use

  for each section heading. Inside sections, use

  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

    for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we must include all details from the posting, but we can format them as lists or paragraphs. We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The posting includes some duplicated lines like "VA offers a comprehensive total rewards packageVHA Physician Total Rewards" appears twice; we should include only once. Also "Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Learn more" and "EDRP Authorized: Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) Authorized - see "Benefits" section" maybe duplicate; we can combine. We need to remove application instructions like "Applicants will remain active for 3 months after their initial application is received and/or updatedAfter 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". That's application instruction; we should remove it per instruction: remove application instructions. So we should omit that sentence. Also remove "This is an Open Continuous Announcement & will remain open until June 12 - 2026 - or until all positions are filledEligible 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". That's also about announcement timing; maybe considered part of responsibilities? It's about the posting itself, not duties. Might be considered boilerplate? It's not exactly application instruction but it's about the announcement. The instruction says remove duplicated lines and application instructions. This is about the announcement being open continuous; maybe we can keep as part of Responsibilities? It's not a duty. Might be considered metadata about the posting; but we could keep it under Responsibilities as a note about the position being open continuous. However the instruction says "Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

    or drop it." This is metadata about the announcement; we could fold into a short

    under Responsibilities or maybe under a separate "About the role". But we have no About the role section; we could create one if we have content. The summary about EDRP could be About the role. But we already have Qualifications, Responsibilities, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Could we add an About the role section with summary? The instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Adding another section may be thin. However we have substantive content in summary about EDRP; maybe we can incorporate that into Benefits section (since EDRP is a benefit). Indeed EDRP is a benefit. So we can put EDRP details under Benefits. Thus we can omit the open continuous announcement lines as they are more about the posting; maybe we can drop them as minor metadata. The instruction says fold minor metadata into a short

    or drop it. So we could drop them. Now we need to ensure we include all substantive info: EDRP eligibility, award amount up to $200,000, eligibility period one to five years, determined by VHA Education Loan Repayment Services after review, former EDRP participants ineligible. Qualifications: Basic requirements list (citizenship, degree, license, residency training details, proficiency in English). Preferred experience list. Responsibilities: Administrative duties (leadership, HR, staff management, time/leave management, clinical management including indirect patient care). Clinical duties (privileged, patient care, medical/clinical knowledge, clinical judgment, interpersonal/communication skills). Also maybe mention "Staff Gastroenterologist is expected to remain privileged and practicing in their specialty field