Physician - Radiologist

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 are ineligible to apply.

Responsibilities

• Perform a wide range of diagnostic fluoroscopies, radiography, sonography, CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine, Mammography, DX. Additional services may include assisting or performing imaging guided interventional procedures.
• Participate in all general radiology examinations.
• Communicate results to ordering providers.
• Audit technical quality of exams and provide resultant feedback to technologists.
• Direct all supporting employees during the performance of these procedures.
• Ensure the quality and timeliness of reports for the procedures interpreted or performed.
• Perform a wide range of diagnostic interpretations of the studies produced by the Imaging Section.
• Maintain full responsibility for the quality of the diagnostic examinations performed by the Imaging Section.
• Authorized user for nuclear medicine.
• Perform administrative duties including maintaining statistical records, participating on assigned clinical staff boards, meetings, and committees, participating in medical education programs for medical trainees, and participating in the Department's Quality Assurance Program.
• Perform non-interpreting functions such as protocoling of diagnostic radiology imaging studies, informed consents, patient assessments as necessary, chart review/documentation, peer review, presenting at multidisciplinary conferences, and presenting at interdepartmental conferences.
• Participate in call.
• Adhere to tour of duty hours and backup call assignments.
• Adhere to VHA and department policy, procedures, and practice.
• Maintain CME for licensure.
• Complete all educational assignments and trainings in a timely manner.
• Monitor the productivity of imaging physicians to ensure the average workload of the service meets VHA defined benchmarks, and develop corrective plans if it does not.
• Utilize PACS and voice dictation to ensure timely and consistent imaging reporting and record keeping.
• Provide accurate, concise, timely documentation of care in the electronic medical record (Computerized Patient Record System - CPRS) on each patient care occurrence. Verification of reports must be completed, in accordance with established metrics.
• Be proficient with digital imaging technology, PACS, and voice dictation.

Qualifications

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• 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.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Experience: 1 year of experience as a general radiologist.