Job opening: Physician (Cardiologist Non-Invasive)
Salary: $250 000 - 400 000 per year
Published at: Jun 07 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The Phoenix VA Health Care System (PVAHCS) Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona provides cardiology services to Veteran patients. The PVAHCS is in search of a full-time, non-invasive Cardiology Physician; a candidate with experience in advance heart failure treatment and therapies will be looked favorable upon. PVAHCS is a core rotation site for University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix Cardiology fellowship program and Internal Medicine residency.
Duties
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Work Schedule: Full-time 8:00am - 4:30pm with rotating weekend, evening and weekend call coverage.
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): May be eligible for highly qualified candidate.
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
Major duties include but not limited to the following:
The PVAHCS is searching for a full-time, non-invasive Cardiologist five days per week, with rotating weekend coverage, and rotating evening and weekend call. Clinic services are required five days per week and include following services:
Veteran evaluation and management.
Inpatient and outpatient cardiac consultation including ICU, Med-Surg, and Telemetry.
Triaging consults and completing electronic consults.
Echocardiography interpretation including transesophageal and stress.
Stress testing interpretation including exercise treadmill and myocardial perfusion imaging.
Holter and event monitor interpretation.
Electrocardiography interpretation.
Other duties per Chief of Cardiology
Other services cardiology provides include:
Cardiac device implantation including ICD , loop recorders, and pacemakers.
Cardiac catheterization including percutaneous coronary intervention.
Coronary CT angiography and Coronary Calcium Scoring.
Cardiac MRI.
Cardiac rehabilitation.
All medical record documentation will be done in the Computer Patient Record System (CPRS), the VA form of electronic health records
Normal work hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm. Cardiology Clinic will occur during normal work hours, as indicated above. Weekend and evening call coverage is required on a rotating basis between staff cardiologists.
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.
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.
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: (1) Those approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), b) OR
[(2) Those approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA),OR
(3) 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.
Proficiency in spoken and written English.
Preferred Experience: Non-Invasive Cardiologist board certified or board eligible in Cardiovascular Diseases with experience inadvance heart failure treatment and therapies.
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: VA Handbook 5019/1, Part II, Pre-Placement Physical Examination and Evaluation.
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. Approved schools are:
- Schools of medicine accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) for the year in which the degree was granted, or
- 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.
- 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.]
NOTE: The Under Secretary of Health or designee in the VHA Central Office may approve the appointment under authority of 38 U.S.C. 7405 of a physician graduate of a school of medicine not covered above if the candidate is to be assigned to a research, academic, or administrative position with no patient care responsibilities. The appointment will be made only in exceptional circumstances where the candidate's credentials clearly demonstrate high professional attainment or expertise in the specialty area.
Contacts
- Address Carl T Hayden Veterans' Administration Medical Center
650 East Indian School Road
Phoenix, AZ 85012
US
- Name: Dennis Burns
- Email: [email protected]
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