The Central Texas VA Health Care System, Temple, TX is currently recruiting a Hospitalist to provide direct patient care and serve as Medical Officer of the Day (MOD) during non-administrative day tours, Specialty Care Service. A Recruitment/Relocation Incentive may be considered for a highly qualified candidate. This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP)

Duties

The Hospitalist/Nocturnist will facilitate transfers from outside facilities, admit appropriate patients from VA clinics and emergency department, and be available for any acute clinical issues for patients already admitted to Hospital Medicine teams during their tours of duty. Administrative Duties: - Leadership responsibilities: Participate in staff meetings, hospital committees, and the peer review process. Demonstrate effective communication to staff and leadership. - Human Resources (HR): Maintain VA training requirements, complete documentation in a timely manner and maintain credentials required for privileging and re-privileging. - Staff Management: Participate in the Focused Professional Performance Evaluation (FPPE)/On going Professional Performance Evaluation (OPPE) process. Adhere to employee health requirements. Participate in the peer review process. - Time/Leave Management: Adhere to tour of duty, log duty hours appropriately and request leave in advance. - Clinical Management including indirect pati ent care: Manage encounters and consults appropriately, document in a timely and appropriate manner. oversee relevant performance measures, and participate in quality improvement and process improvement projects. - The physician may be asked in future to round on patients at home, as part of hospital in home program. Clinical Duties: -The Medical Service Noctur in future to round on patients at home, as part of nist is a hospitalist responsible for providing care to hospitalized adult patients, identifying health problems, and designing diagnostic and therapeutic plans to meet these needs during overnight/weekend hours. Duty hours are subject to change based on t he needs of patient care. Specific duties include the following: - Assess patients for admission and disposition. - Admit patients to Hospital Medicine teams, either independently or working with house staff providers or mid level providers . - Staff patients requiring Medicine consultation if urgently needed (for example, to guide surgical treatment.) - Being available to staff procedures done during the tour of duty. - Being available for acute medical issues that arise on any patient admitted to the Hospital Medicine service. - Hospitalists are also responsible for managing codes and are code team leaders during non-administrative hours. - Completing educational evaluations for the night float house staff as required by the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Adherence to VA policies and procedures regarding documentation, patient safety, and utilization. Independently assess patients for admission and disposition when dictated by house staff schedule and regulations. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards. Work Schedule: This position is minimum 6 months nighttime rotations, and rest of the time will be daytime rotations. The nighttime typical tour of duty (TOD) is compressed from Monday to Sunday 7:00 PM till 7:00 AM. Daytime compressed TOD is Monday to Sunday 7:00 AM till 7:00 PM. The incumbent may be asked to work 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM as needed. We also have a noon till midnight TOD Monday to Sunday and some daytime duties may include that TOD. In the beginning the incumbent will also be asked to work daytime shifts as to get acclimated with hospitalist workflow. These shifts usually are from 8:00 AM till 4:30 PM and usually a period of two months or more may be needed or required. Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Authorized, see details in "Education Section" Pay: 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) Retirement: 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) 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 Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

Requirements

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. Education: Degree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed. Licensure and Registration: 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. (NOTE: VA physicians involved in academic training programs may be required to be board certified for faculty status.) Approved residencies are: Those approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), b) OR Those approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA),OR Other residencies (non-US residency training programs followed by a minimum of five years of verified practice in the United States), 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. 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). PRPs must be fully licensed physicians (i.e., not a training license) and may only be appointed on an intermittent or fee-basis. PRPs are not considered independent practitioners and will not be privileged; rather, they are to have a "scope of practice" that allows them to perform certain restricted duties under supervision. Additionally, surgery residents in gap years may also be appointed as PRPs. Physical Requirements: See outlined below. English Language Proficiency. Physicians appointed to direct patient-care positions must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. § 7402(d) and 7407(d). Preferred Experience: Board Certified/Board Eligible in Internal Medicine Three years of hospitalist experience Experience working with residents and/or mid-level providers. Nocturnist experience. Reference: VA Regulations, specifically VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G-2 Physician Qualification Standard. This can be found in the local Human Resources Office. Physical Requirements: Moderate lifting, 15-44 pounds; Use of fingers; Walking (4-6hours); Standing (4-6hours); Near vision correctable at 13" to 16" to Jaeger 1 to 4; Far vision correctable in one eye to 20/20 and to 20/40 in the other; Ability to distinguish basic colors; Hearing (aid permitted).

Education

1. Schools of medicine accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) for the year in which the degree was granted, or
2. Schools of osteopathic medicine approved by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation of the American Osteopathic Association for the year in which the degree was granted.
3. For foreign medical graduates not covered in (1) or (2) above, facility officials must verify with the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) that the applicant has met requirements for certification, and must obtain a copy of the ECFMG certificate, if claimed by the applicant. [If the applicant does not claim an ECFMG certificate, facility officials must still confirm that the medical school meets (or met) ECFMG eligibility requirements for the year the candidate graduated.]

Contacts

• Address VA Central Texas Health Care System 1901 Veterans Memorial Drive Temple, TX 76504 US
• Name: VISN 17 SSU USAS Group
• Email: [email protected]