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Physician- Diagnostic Radiologist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
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.
What You'll Do
- →Oversight of quality and safety: Review exam requests for appropriateness Prescribe exam protocols and modify as needed for specific clinical indications Provide oversight of technical image quality with feedback to technologists.
- →Provide clinical oversight of medication administration, including contrast, preps and other medications relevant to the Imaging Service.
- →Provide oversight and serve as resource for infection control practices.
- →Participate in MRI safety, and Radiology Quality Assurance committees.
- →Participate in various aspects of quality assurance such as peer review, protocol review, appropriateness criteria and performance improvement.
- →Maintains personal dosimetry Reports safety events Image Interpretation and Consultation: Interprets imaging exams including relevant exam comparison and correlation with clinical information in CPRS.
- →Generate reports that contain pertinent findings and measurements, a description of normal and abnormal structures, discussion of differential diagnoses, recommendations and impression.
- →Utilizes abnormal diagnostic codes appropriately and communicates/documents verbal notification of results when required.
- →Support patient care services with reports timely to the care being delivered with the method of communication appropriate to the level of clinical importance or acuity.
- →Consult with providers on various aspects of imaging such as exam selection, review of results and other support functions.
- →Meets VHA defined benchmarks for physician productivity.
- →Participate in clinical conferences such as Tumor Board and others.
- →Patient Care: Interact with patients to obtain relevant clinical history and physical exam findings within the scope of radiology practice, provide education to patients and support, obtain informed consent, issue disclosures when appropriate, document in CPRS, enter orders in CPRS, and other aspects of physician practice.
- →Participate in the coordination of patient care: Contact clinical providers as relevant to assure effective patient care, discuss evaluation, management, follow-up and other aspects of coordinated, patient-centered care.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine.
Personality Fit
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