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Posted: 17-Jan-25
Location: Hampton, Virginia
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: ONCHAMVAMC2025
Are you looking for excellent benefits and working hours as an Hematologist/Oncologist?
Job Description
Are you a recent graduate - or even an experienced Oncologist (MD/DO and BC/BE)? The Hampton Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center is growing!
If you love the beach, enjoy music/art, and appreciate the military-look no further! Come join us at the Hampton VA Medical Center and join a life of coastal-living.
Our provider will be located in the main Hampton VA Medical Center hospital and join a team of one other seasoned gastroenterologist and four Nurse Practitioners. Our clinic incorporates a 45-in-patient bed facility with a dedicated support staff and a 3-room state-of-the-art endoscopy suite. Our provider would perform outpatient scopes only.
This position has an ideal Monday through Friday workday (8-4:30 pm) with an opportunity for a compressed schedule (4 x 10-hour days).
Major Duties and Responsibilities to include but not be limited to:
- Provide direct patient care specific to subspecialty in the inpatient and ambulatory clinic settings.
- Provide timely screening and resolution of consultations from other disciplines in the inpatient and outpatient settings.
- Provide a full range of therapeutic interventions specific to subspecialty to units/programs in the Medical Center to which they are assigned and have clinical privileges to practice including diagnostic assessment, medication evaluation and management.
- Order diagnostic tests and discriminate between normal and abnormal findings and makes appropriate treatment decisions.
- Documentation of care in the medical record in keeping with the bylaws of the Medical Center.
- Provide supervisory oversight residents, fellows, medical students, NP/PA students, as appropriate, who are assigned to the Hematology and Oncology Services.
- Provide supervisory oversight of the clinical care on the inpatient service and ambulatory clinic of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants as appropriate.
- Participates effectively in team meetings and treatment planning conferences and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members in a manner that enhances coordination of comprehensive patient care.
- Provide weekend and holiday coverage of the hematology/oncology consultation service in rotation with other staff hematologist/oncologist.
- Provide weekend and holiday coverage of the medical inpatient service in rotation at a frequency determined by the Chief of Medicine or Chief of Staff.
- Ensures that the practice of medicine is consistent with Joint Commission, CARF, VA policies and procedures, clinical practice guidelines, VISN standards, national statutes and regulations, medical records documentation, mandatory continuing education, and HIPPA polices.
- Other duties as assigned
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package:
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): available to highly qualified candidates.
An Education Debt Reduction program of up to $200K over 5 years is available.
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 restrictions on moonlighting
Physician Provider Recruiter
- Work: (948) 205-1783
Veterans Health Administration
Hampton, VA 23667-0001
Education
- 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.]