Physician (Regular Ft)

The Neurologist Physician (staff neurologist) is assigned to the Neurology Service at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA. The staff neurologist must have outstanding clinical and interpersonal skills as a member of the VA professional health care team and providing continuous Veteran centered care for a variety of neurological disorders.

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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

Duties include but are not limited to: The staff neurologist is an independent practitioner providing day-to-day care of Veteran patients, both in the inpatient and outpatient settings either by face to face encounter or telehealth modality. This care includes but is not limited to performing a comprehensive medical history and neurological exam; determining diagnosis; developing a treatment plan which may include, laboratory tests, imaging tests, and follow-up evaluations. The staff neurologist will also provide advice to patient's family members as needed or requested. The staff neurologist provides consultations to all primary care physicians and other specialty care physicians throughout the facility and VISN 4. Administrative, direct patient care and teaching are all integrated into the activities and decision processes of the staff neurologist.

• Deliver guideline adherent evaluation and management of neurological conditions. Care will be delivered in an outpatient clinical setting no less than one half day per week. Includes direct patient care, patient and family teaching, staff education and multidisciplinary consultations and collaborations.
• Perform inpatient neurology consultation proportional to total number of VA 8ths.
• Develop/disseminate neurology education materials for patients and colleagues
• Establish a consistent, guideline adherent approach to care, standardize EMR documentation, applying HRO/learning health system principles. It is expected that medical record data will be usable for research and for continuous Quality Improvement Initiatives.
• Participate in the education of Fellows, Residents, and PA students, NPs, Medical Students.
• Collaborate in research initiates involving VA data or veteran recruitment.
• Build and maintain relationships with management, co-workers, patients, and the general public are consistently courteous, respectful, and cooperative in nature.
• Display a cooperative attitude and will effectively work together to implement the organization's mission and goals.
• Ensure that productivity is maintained at the established level for the program for which he/she is responsible.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm EST., with after hours and weekend consult coversage proportional to clinical 8ths, distributed across the division.

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.

Additional Requirement:
Preferred Experience:

• Board Certified in Headache Neurology from fully accredited program as a result of completing a Headache Neurology Fellowship.
• Board Certified in Adult Neurology Psychiatry & Neurology.

Reference: For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.

Physical Requirements: See VA Directive and Handbook 5019.

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:

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.]

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.