Primary Care Physician

3 days ago


Marion, Illinois, United States Department Of Veterans Affairs Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Primary Care Physician to join our team at the Department of Veterans Affairs. As a Primary Care Physician, you will be responsible for providing high-quality patient-centered care to adults and older adults, assessing patients, and ensuring safe and efficient healthcare delivery.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provides quality patient-centered care to adults and older adults, as assigned by the ACOS of Primary Care.
  • Assesses patients by utilizing advanced clinical judgment and physical assessment skills, identifying acute, non-acute, and chronic health problems.
  • Ensures safe, efficient, and high-quality healthcare delivery within the department.
  • Ensures appropriate initial evaluation, treatment, and consultation, as well as documentation, consistent with current VHA Directive and VHNIHCS policies on Emergency Medicine.
  • For admissions to the inpatient units, ensures a physician-to-physician conversation regarding the need for admission, including diagnoses, assessment, and recommendations.
  • Demonstrates sound decision-making skills, both clinical and administrative, which bring credit to the profession and serve to enhance the distinctive and contributory role of physicians.
  • Daily care of patients also entails regular interaction with nursing, coordination of consultations and care, and facilitation of diagnostic studies and therapeutic procedures.
  • Other vital roles include communication with patients and their families, patient education, discharge planning, and communication with outpatient providers, arranging follow-up, preparing discharge instructions, medication reconciliation, and ensuring communication during hand-offs of care.
  • Ensures a sign-out to the oncoming physician to ensure an informed transition of care; coordinates with the admitting physician and consultants to organize diagnostic and treatment plans for all patients pending admission.
  • Maintains appropriate clinical privileges to fulfill the duties of assignment within Primary Care Service.
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 allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine.
  • Licensure and Registration: Physicians must possess a 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 or its equivalent, approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification.
  • 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/Qualifications
  • Board Certified or Board Eligible.
Additional Information

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment. This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status.

VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply. The health-related positions in VA are covered by Title 38, and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority.

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required.



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