Physician - Surgery Intensivist

About the role

The Central Virginia VA Health Care System is seeking a skilled Intensivist in Richmond, Virginia. This is a full-time position in the surgical intensive care unit at a busy level 1A facility. The Surgery Intensivist will provide care to all surgical patients with critical care needs, including neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, urology, vascular and general surgery. Candidates will work with an experienced advanced practice provider (APP) team.

Responsibilities

• Provides a full range of services including assessment and using the most appropriate techniques in providing quality care in their subspecialty.
• Performs appropriate evaluations for patients.
• Provides a full range of therapeutic interventions to units/programs in the Medical Center to which they are assigned and has clinical privileges to practice including diagnostic assessment, medication evaluation and management.
• Participates effectively in team meetings and treatment planning conferences and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members in a manner that enhances coordination of comprehensive patient care.
• Orders, diagnostic tests and discriminates between normal and abnormal findings and makes appropriate treatment decisions.
• Ensures that the practice of medicine is consistent with Joint Commission, CARF, VA policies and procedures, clinical practice psychiatric guidelines, VISN standards, National statutes and regulations, medical record documentation, mandatory continuing education and HIPAA policies.

Requirements

All qualified candidates encouraged to apply. Open to U.S. Citizens but non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens. NOTE: The 2-page Resume requirement does not apply to this position. For more information, refer to Required Documents below.

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.
• Board certification in critical care required.
• Experience managing cardiac surgery patients including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) strongly preferred.
• Physical Requirements: The physician 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.