Physicians - Primary Care New England
About the role
The VHA's mission is to "honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care to improve the health and well-being." VA New England leads the VHA's Primary Care initiative in employing the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) model to leverage evidence-based standardized health care practices toward optimizing the unique contributions of each discipline on the PACT. The team aims to empower and equip patients to take charge of their health and well-being by offering complimentary and integrative health care approaches that enhance self-empowerment, self-healing, and self-care. Our smaller panel sizes, wide array of support services and virtual care options provide more flexibility for patients to engage in their own health care and with their team.
Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive assessment, diagnostic work-up and clinic intervention, including comprehensive patient assessment, health history, physical examination, and patient education to Veterans in the Primary Care team setting.
- Works collaboratively with other health care professionals to accomplish patient, service, and medical center goals, promoting and embracing the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) model of care, utilizing Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, Excellence (ICARE) values throughout the clinic.
- Distinguish between normal and abnormal findings to establish a diagnosis and initiate appropriate response to emergency health problems.
- Order and evaluate diagnostic tests as appropriate, recommend treatment and/or referral.
- Initiate appropriate referrals and consultations to other clinical services.
- Initiate, evaluate, and change orders for medications.
- Follow Performance Measure guidelines, including completion of clinical reminders; access and timeliness standards; prescription order entry, National VA formulary Requirements, and customer service standards.
- Demonstrate flexibility in responding to clinic demands, adhere to personal and professional obligations and responsibilities.
- Practice and maintain ethical standards, and sustain a work environment that is harmonious and customer service oriented.
- Assists with arranging continuity of care across the VHA system as needed.
- Works to provide leadership on site to ensure care is completed in required timeframes.
- Participates in Quality Improvement activities.
- Participates and attends medical center committees as assigned.
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.
- Education: Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from an institution whose accreditation was in place for the year in which the course of study was completed.
Benefits
Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 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)
Retailer: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
Pay
Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Schedule
No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
Skills
None specified in the job posting
Benefits
Includes traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Pay
Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Schedule
No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
Skills
None specified in the job posting