The VA Salisbury Healthcare System is one of the leading health care systems serving Veterans in the Mid-Atlantic Region. We provide you with health care services at 4 locations in the Central Piedmont region of North Carolina: our W.G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center in Salisbury and 3 health care center or community-based outpatient clinics in Kernersville, North Charlotte, and South Charlotte.
Duties
This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply. We are seeking a full time academic urologist to be part of a rapidly expanding urology program at Salisbury VAMC, Salisbury, NC. The urologist shall have a clinical appointment at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and will be actively involved in resident training. Each year, urology section performs over 600 OR procedures, about 1500 outpatient procedures and sees 16,000 patients in clinic.
Duties and Responsibilities of the Urology Chief, but are not limited to:
* Administrative Duties:
o Facilitate and attend all monthly section staff meetings
o Consult Leadership with issues related to adverse patient outcomes
o Effective written and oral communication with subordinates and leaders
o Prepare Section Strategic planning
o Monitor clinic management
o Provide supervisory, administrative and clinical oversight for all urology providers and trainees as well as clinical oversight of Urology nurse managed clinics at all of the Salisbury HCS facilities. This will require a main presence at the Salisbury main VA and travel periodically to the HCCs
o Perform other administrative duties as needed
* Clinical Duties: The incumbent is expected to remain privileged and practicing in their specialty field. The exact privileges and procedures for a particular provider will be approved by the Professional Standards Board. All physicians must meet the following qualifications:
o Patient Care: Practitioners are expected to provide direct patient care
o Participate in call schedule
o Medical/Clinical Knowledge: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate knowledge of established Specialty and to be able to use scientific evidence and methods to investigate, evaluate, and improve patient care
o Professionalism: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate behaviors that reflect a commitment to continuous professional development, ethical practice, and understanding and sensitivity to diversity, and a responsible attitude toward their patients, their profession.
o Systems-Based Practice: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate both an understanding of the contexts and systems in which health care is provided, and the ability to apply this knowledge to improve optimizing health care
* Education: Practitioners are expected to show effectiveness in teaching, monitor and coordinate educational activities, and comply with necessary trainee supervision requirements. Work collaboratively with the academic affiliate. Direct supervision of trainees (via physical presence) in the clinic and the O.R., including scrubbing in with trainees in the O.R.
* Research and Development: If the incumbent is involved in research, they will show an ability to identify and define significant Research and Development problems, to plan and execute a precise research program, and to generate effective reports and results worthy of publication.
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday, 7:30am-4:00pm (Supervisory Discretion)
Total Rewards Package
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards.
* Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized
* EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact James R. Grimm III, 704-406-7236, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance
* 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
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