Physician (Invasive Chief Cardiologist)

About the role

The Columbia Medicine Service is seeking an INVASIVE Chief Cardiologist with outstanding clinical, teaching, administrative, and interpersonal skills. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the Cardiology staff and provide comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care to patients with cardiovascular diseases.

Responsibilities

• Provision of comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care to patients with cardiovascular diseases.
• Interpretation of stress tests, tilt table tests, echocardiograms, electrocardiograms, nuclear and vascular studies.
• Administrative oversight of the Cardiology Section.
• Additional ad hoc clinical, teaching, and administrative assignments as needed.

Requirements

• Degree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine.
• 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.
• Completed Internal Medicine training in an accredited program, as well as a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases. Board Certification in cardiovascular disease desired.
• Expertise in the interpretation of Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiography, and Vascular Cardiology desired.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Completed residency training in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification.
• 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 in the United States.
• Non-US residency training programs followed by a minimum of three years of verified independent practice in the United States.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• One year as a supervisor and competency performing cardiac catheterizations preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases.
• 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).
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
• 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.
• No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting.

Pay

Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases.

Schedule

Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM. Subject to change based on the needs of the agency.