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Physician - Hospitalist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 5 days ago
About the Role
A position exist for a full-time Hospitalist at the Hines VA Hospital in Hines, IL. The incumbent will participate in the night/weekend on-call schedule rotation for acute SCI/D inpatient wards and long term care ward. Care for those patients admitted for acute medical emergencies to the medical care wards by consultation and recommendations to their attending physicians are required. The incumbent exercises considerable clinical expert opinion and judgment in accomplishing responsibilities.
What You'll Do
- →Hospitalist's duties include admission, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment, including consultation, of patients presenting with general medical complaints, diseases, and injuries.
- →May assist in other administrative duties assigned by service chief like monitoring the EPRP, clinical review reminder data monitoring etc.Responsible for admissions of the patients as assigned.
- →Interviews and examines patients, reviews past medical history, and requests and/or performs diagnostic tests and examinations deemed necessary to obtain all appropriate information related to each case.
- →Makes preliminary diagnoses, directs, prescribes or provides treatment, or arranges for specialized care or patient referral as required.
- →Bases decisions upon information obtained, professional medical knowledge, skills, and prescribed policies and procedures.
- →Makes notes of observations to be incorporated into clinical records.
- →Provides urgent and emergency care as required.
- →Provides definitive management of emergency care cases that do not require referral.
- →Refers patients to appropriate consult services, provides full clinical information for care and diagnostic procedures that cannot be adequately provided in the SCI unit .
- →Coordinates and integrates care on the unit, facilitate transferring the patients to ICU settings as needed and assures timely follow-up care is arranged.
- →Responds to acute emergency interventions, working closely in consultation with members of other medical departments as deemed appropriate by the clinical problem.
- →Works with allied health professionals, i.e.
- →Community Health Nurses, Social Workers, Health Educators, etc., in the management of the patient's medical, psychological and social problems.
- →Serves as an expert in the specialized area and assumes appropriate administrative duties as assigned by the supervisor.
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.
- ✓Board Certification 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 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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