Physician-Tele-Critical Care Intensivist

About the role

The Tele-Critical Care Intensivists perform medical evaluation, monitoring, and management of patients presenting with critical illness complaints, diseases, and injuries, and in need of critical care management, including high-risk, high-volume and problem-prone procedures, exclusively via telemedicine techniques from remote access.

Responsibilities

• Provide state-of-the-art evidence-based critical care clinical management for all patients in Tele-Critical Care equipped beds or utilizing Tele-Critical Care equipped mobile carts within facilities affiliated with the Tele-Critical Care Program.
• Work in the Tele-Critical Care center with sufficient frequency to maintain full fluency with the software, equipment, technical issues, primary site staffing models and patterns of utilization of the Tele-Critical Care program and to sustain familiarity with the primary site teaching programs and familiarity with the full cohort of Tele-Critical Care and bedside physicians and nurses (a minimum of 2 12-hour shifts monthly).
• Interact with bedside hospital-based physicians and nurse managers to facilitate professional relationships.
• Foster professional relationships with academic faculty and trainees at all sites served.
• Assist the Tele-Critical Care Physician Director and Associate Physician Director(s) in building a positive working relationship with academic program directors to ensure Tele-Critical Care program adherence with ACGME requirements while maintaining optimal utilization of the Tele-Critical Care resource, as well as patient safety and quality in the management of critically ill patients across the system.
• Develop and maintain a positive working relationship with department, Medical Center, VISN, national and other personnel, and outside agencies.
• Complete and maintain all training and proficiency requirements.

Qualifications

• U.S. 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.
• Must be able to demonstrate he/she has a satisfactory number of critical care inpatient encounters within the last 24 months.
• Completed an ACGME/AOA - accredited and approved residency training program in internal medicine, surgery, anesthesia, emergency medicine, neurology, or neurosurgery, followed by completion of an accredited and approved training program (fellowship) in critical care medicine. Alternatively, applicant may be Critical Care Medicine (CCM) certified through the ABIM.
• Have a current ACLS certification.
• Prior Telemedicine experience, especially Tele-Critical Care.
• Physical Requirements: Per VA Directive and Handbook 5019 - a physical examination will be conducted based on the physical requirements of the position. A physical examination prior to placement is required.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
• 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance
• Health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
• Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
• CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)
• Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
• No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
• Variable - Days/Nights/Weekends work schedule