Physician (Physiatrist) Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - EDRP Authorized

About the role

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply.

Responsibilities

• Routinely performs inpatient and outpatient musculoskeletal and neuromuscular examinations, determines diagnoses, and initiates treatments that emphasize restoration of function.
• Works with a team of health care providers to establish a comprehensive rehabilitation program.
• Manages out-patient and in-patient patients including CLC patients.
• Provides polytrauma rehabilitative care including TBI/SCI.
• Learns or participates in clinics focused on an amputee care, seating/power mobility care, non-interventional pain management.
• Administers trigger point, intraarticular, intrasheath, and joint injections with or without an ultrasound guidance.
• Performs an/a EMG/NCV tests.
• Executes clinical and non-clinical assignments efficiently, timely and courteously to all veterans seeking rehabilitative care, and makes clinical notes readily available to the referring practitioners.
• Collaborates with other providers of the PM&R Service and other services in providing appropriate clinical education to medical students, residents, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and allied health trainees as needed or requested by the PM&R Service Chief.
• Maintains Continuing Medical Education (CME), State Medical License, board certification (if indicated), certification in CPR-BLS/RQI, and timely completion of VA mandated trainings assigned via the TMS (Training Management System).
• Participates in administrative role, strategic planning, and other organizational initiatives for the service.
• Attends mandatory huddles and meetings as instructed by the PM&RS Service Chief. Also, if requested or assigned by the Chief, PM&RS Service, the Staff Physiatrist will attend meetings and expected to contribute to the PM&RS Service management meetings, committees, councils;…etc., by providing appropriate inputs.
• Actively participates and promotes performance improvement and system re-design measures to the betterment of the PM&RS Service.
• Abides by, supports, and promotes all of the VHA and all PM&RS Service directives, policies & procedures, and rules & regulations.

Qualifications

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• 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 one of the schools approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed.
• License: 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. (NOTE: VA physicians involved in academic training programs may be required to be board certified for faculty status.) Approved residencies are:
  • (1) 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;
  • (2) 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;
  • (3) 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.
• Exceptions:
  • Residents currently enrolled in ACGME/AOA accredited residency training programs and who would otherwise meet the basic requirements for appointment are eligible to be appointed as "Physician Resident Providers" (PRPs). PRPs must be fully licensed physicians (i.e., not a training license) and may only be appointed on an intermittent basis. PRPs are not considered independent practitioners and will not be privileged; rather, they are to have a "scope of practice" that allows them to perform certain restricted duties under supervision.
  • Surgery residents in gap years may also be appointed as PRPs.
• Knowledge of computer software programs
• Formal training or experience using ultrasound imaging preferred but not required.
• Physical Requirements: The position requires compliance with VA Handbook and VASTHCS Policy related to physical requirements. Heavy lifting 45 pounds and over, Heavy carrying 45 pounds and over, Straight pulling for 1 hour, Pulling hand over hand for 5 hours, Pushing for 6 hours, Reaching 8 feet or more.