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Physician - Emergency Medicine
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 39 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in Emergency Services, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Emergency Services (ECHCS). This position provides support for the emergency care of Veterans.
What You'll Do
- →Start, continue, or finish your career here | VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System(youtube.com) GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNED DUTIES: The Emergency Room Physician provides emergent and urgent clinical services to eligible Veterans and ECHCS employees.
- →Services are provided within the VA ECHCS.
- →The incumbent is expected to interact with the Veteran as well as family members, significant others, community agencies and providers, employees, and other staff.
- →FUNCTIONS OR SCOPE OF ASSIGNED DUTIES: The Physician practices in the Emergency Room Clinic at the ECHCS at the expert level.
- →The Physician is academically and clinically prepared to be responsible for managing the full spectrum of emergency care.
- →Emergency care at ECHCS includes, but is not limited to, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring outcome measures of healthcare problems of patients presenting with emergent care concerns.
- →A nonexclusive list includes the following: performing histories and physicals, initiating and adjusting therapeutic regimens, ordering diagnostic and therapeutic tests/studies, initiating consults to specialty services, prescribing medications/supplies in accordance with VA policy and the VA formulary, and assigning appropriate follow-up care.
- →Physicians will be granted clinical privileges by the Medical Staff Office (MSO).
- →Physicians must be certified in Out of Operating Room Airway management (OORAM) and Moderate Sedation.
- →The physician will work in a team setting with other physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and support staff assigned to perform duties to accomplish the treatment of ECHCS Veterans.
- →Computer skills are essential as the ECHCS is fully computerized for note documentation, entering orders, requesting consults, and all administrative functions which accompany the overall performance of duties.
- →Emergency Physicians will be required to attend staff meetings, Morbidity & Mortality (M&Ms), and complete Peer review evaluations.
- →In order to ensure continuity of operations, physicians are also required to participate in a back-up call system to cover for each other in case of illness or family emergency.
- →Additionally, physicians will be assigned to a holiday coverage team and be required to work their share of holidays on a rotating basis.
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 identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation/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
Job ID: 68c7b573-dbf1-498a-914b-b73ee0a20e63
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