Physician (Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders (SCI&D) Service Chief)

About the role

This position is eligible for Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP). You must meet eligibility requirements per VHA policy and apply within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (1 to 5 yrs) are determined by VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former participants ineligible to apply. Recruitment or relocation incentive may also be available for highly qualified candidates.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the administrative and clinical lead for the Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders Service (SCI) at the Hampton VAMC in Hampton, VA.
• Provides a full range of PMR-specific evaluations to diagnose and treat the general SCI population.
• Functions independently as a member of the VAPSHCS medical staff, with full clinical privileges.
• Maintains certification and licensure in the medical specialty.
• Serves as a clinical leader in emergencies.
• Provides care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for health problems and promotes health lifestyles.
• Demonstrates knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and technological sciences, and their application in SCI medicine.
• Provides education to Veterans, family members and significant others.

Requirements

The incumbent needs to be mobile in that the job requires: sitting, walking, standing, and bending. Selected applicant will be required to complete an online on-boarding process. The job is primarily sedentary, and requires sitting, walking, standing, and bending. Incumbent is required to respond with time-sensitive reports while balancing multiple competing demands.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, you must meet the basic requirements as well as any additional requirements (if applicable) listed in the job announcement. Applicants pending the completion of training or license requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. 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.

Basic Requirements:

• 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.
• 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.

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).
• 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.