•Annually: 26 paid vacation days, 13 paid sick days, and 11 paid holidays, 5 paid CME attendance days
•Federal health/dental/vision/term life/long-term care insurance
•Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and separate 401K with up to 5% in contributions
•Predictable work schedules with a focus on quality rather than volume
•Clinical research opportunities and possible academic affiliation
•No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
Required Education:
MD/DO
Internal Number: 91707380
The Memphis VA Medical Center, Polytrauma Clinic is seeking a Physical Med and Rehab Physiatrist with Spinal Cord Injury/Disorder experience. The medical center consists of one main campus, which includes a sixty-bed Spinal Cord Injury Unit, a women’s health clinic, and ten community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC). It is a tertiary care facility classified as a Clinical Referral Level 1 Facility and one of the most complex medical centers in the VA system. It is a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology, as well as extensive education and research programs. Comprehensive primary, secondary, and tertiary health care is provided in areas of primary care, general cardiovascular, neurological surgery, psychiatry, pain management, physical medicine and rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, neurology, oncology, rheumatology, geriatrics, optometry, and dentistry. Services are available to more than 200,000 Veterans living in a fifty-three-county, tri-state area (Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi).
Board Eligible/Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Full and unrestricted license from ANY US State or territory
Highly qualified candidates also BE/BC in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine (SCIM)
Current BLS/CPR certification
Be proficient in the written and spoken English language
US Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care at 1,321 health care facilities, including 172 VA Medical Centers and 1,138 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics) to over 9 million Veterans enrolled in the VA health care program. VA health care teams are deeply experienced and guided by the needs of Veterans, their families, and caregivers. Our medical center provides primary care and specialty health services, including cardiology, mental health care, treatment for spinal cord injuries and disorders, suicide prevention, women’s health services, and more.
The Grand Junction VA Medical Center services those who serve our country providing critical medical services including acute and chronic inpatient and outpatient care. The facility consists of 53-bed capabilities for surgical procedures, specialty care, psychiatric in/outpatient services, as well as a Community Living Center, and social programs and services. The service area encompasses western Colorado and eastern Utah regions and includes the primary VAMC plus four satellite clinics.