Physician (Physical Medicine & Rehab)

About the role

The Long Beach VA Healthcare System is hiring a full-time staff physician in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System in California.

Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive assessment of patients with musculoskeletal disorders and physical impairments (including appropriate history and physical examination) to determine their rehabilitation needs.
• Provides diagnostic workups, treatments, and follow-up as appropriate.
• Treatment interventions may include musculoskeletal and soft tissue injections.
• Possible coverage for subspecialty clinics (e.g., Brace, Amputee, Power Mobility, etc.).
• Provides comprehensive assessment of hospitalized patients (ARU or acute services) with new or established physical impairments, formulating comprehensive rehabilitation interventions, including medical treatments related to their disability to improve the patient's function, coordination, and recommendations for next level of care and collaboration with discharge planning.
• Documents clinical assessments, treatment decisions, plan of care, ongoing management, and therapeutic outcomes, orders medications, diagnostic tests, and places appropriate referrals where needed for every patient encounter.
• Documentation will be accomplished using the electronic comprehensive patient record system (CPRS) and will be completed within 24 hours of the encounter.
• Medications will be prescribed according to federal and state laws as well as VA policies.
• Responds to computerized "view Alerts" and to MyHealtheVet/Secure Messaging requests from veterans/family members on the day of receipt (weekends excepted).
• Follows pertinent guidelines, including completion of clinical reminders in CPRS.
• Access and timeliness standards, prescription order entry, National VA Formula requirements, and Customer Services standards.
• Works efficiently with patients, families, members of the multi-disciplinary team, and other VAMC staff, demonstrating flexibility in responding to clinic demands, adhering to personal and professional obligations and responsible, practice, and ethical standards, and sustaining a work environment that is harmonious and customer service oriented.
• Treats patients, visitors, and staff in a courteous manner.
• Completes appropriate evaluation and paperwork for special incidents such as medication errors, falls, injuries, adverse drug reactions, etc.
• Participates in the continuous quality improvement program and attends meetings as directed.
• Complies with all national standards utilized at this medical treatment facility, including VA Performance Measures and Monitors, Joint Commission, and NCQA standards.
• Works a standard schedule of Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm.

Qualifications

• Must meet the basic requirements as well as any additional requirements (if applicable) listed in the job announcement.
• Currently employed physician(s) in VA who met the requirements for appointment under the previous qualification standard at the time of their initial appointment are deemed to have met the basic requirements of the occupation.
• 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.
• In rare and unusual circumstances, the Facility Director can submit a memo to the VISN Director through the VISN Chief Medical Officer, who may approve requests for reasonable exceptions to the residency training requirement for Physicians whose composite record of experience, accomplishments, performance, and qualifications warrant such action.
• 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.
• Board Eligibility in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR).