Physician Nuclear Medicine Section Chief-Recruitment/Relocation Incentive/EDRP Authorized

About the role

The physician will serve as administrative and clinical Section Chief for Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT. He/she will provide interpretive and patient care services within the scope of Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology. He/she will have responsibilities in other areas such as education and committee service.

Responsibilities

• Planning for the provision of care, including adequate personnel, diagnostic equipment, and supplies to ensure availability of those procedures which are appropriate to the needs of the facility;
• Providing timely patient care with acceptable turnaround times;
• Ensuring equitable nuclear medicine physician duty assignments which are appropriate to training and experience;
• Providing professional oversight to the nuclear medicine technologists;
• Developing and monitoring activities which improve patient safety, performance, and quality;
• Maintaining a safe radiation environment;
• Ensuring patient privacy and confidentiality of patient medical information;
• Maintaining accurate CPT coding;
• Ensuring compliance with all internal and external quality and radiation safety requirements, to include those of federal statues, VA policies/directives, The Joint Commission, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), National Health Physics Program (NHPP) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC);
• Representing the Nuclear Medicine Section, Imaging Service, and/or STVHCS facility during accreditation, inspection, or investigational surveys in regard to Nuclear Medicine;
• Recommending privileging requirements for Nuclear Medicine, reviewing requests for clinical privileges and making recommendations regarding appointment and privileging action;
• Providing technical expertise input for Nuclear Medicine equipment and contracts;
• Maintaining sufficient computer skills necessary to work with advanced PACS, 3-D Imaging Workstations and Voice Recognition systems;
• Supervising training programs in Nuclear Medicine to include medical students, residents and technologist students;
• Participating in business planning, supply/equipment acquisition, manpower and budget management for Nuclear Medicine

Qualifications

• Completed residency training in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification;
• Board Certification in Nuclear Medicine, The American Board of Radiology with Special Competence in Nuclear Medicine, or the equivalent;
• 3 years of experience as staff radiologist or higher;
• Currently proficient in nuclear medicine;
• Proficient in multi-modality and multi-organ system radiology;
• Experience in supervising Nuclear Medicine Section, physicians, technologists;
• Experience in successfully completing accreditation or inspection surveys.