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Physician - Interventional Radiologist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 3 days ago
About the Role
This position is located at the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center, Albany, New York in the Department of Diagnostic Imaging. The Interventional Radiologist performs a large spectrum of image guided procedures with appropriate clinical preparation and follow-up in the rapidly expanding field of Vascular and Interventional Radiology and provides a broad range of care to Veterans with complex disease and comorbidities, within a patient centric model.
What You'll Do
- →The Interventional Radiologist is charged with delivering the best possible care to our Veterans.
- →This care must be delivered in accordance with hospital policy, meeting or exceeding national standards and VHA national benchmarks.
- →Assigned duties and responsibilities are performed throughout the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center, often in a close interdisciplinary arrangement and consultation with other clinical services such as the Department of Surgery, Internal Medicine, Primary Care, Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine etc.
- →Interdisciplinary collaborative care implies active participation in interdisciplinary conferences and adherence to interdisciplinary care and treatment strategy decisions.
- →The successful candidate acts as a cooperative and collegial team member with the entire medical center staff.
- →Duties include but not limited to: Maintains current medical knowledge, technical skills, and excellent diagnostic, judgmental, and therapeutic acumen.
- →Assures that the procedural indication is adequate (e.g. based on American College of Radiology appropriateness criteria) and that physician related work-up, periprocedural and post-procedural follow-up care are of adequate quality, patient centric and safe.
- →This includes but is not limited to, collaboration and good communication with the Emergency Department, Subspecialty Services and/or Clinics, potentially admitting patients to the hospital, caring for the patient as inpatients and/or following the patient clinically.
- →Performs vascular and interventional radiological procedures in a safe, cost sensitive/resource optimizing, technically adequate and generally peer accepted manner that meets general national standards and patient needs in a timely manner.
- →Participates in on-call physician coverage to meet patient care responsibilities in Vascular and interventional radiology.
- →Exercises corporate citizenship and meets high standard of responsiveness, collegial professional interaction, and the core tenets of mutual respect in all professional encounters.
- →Participates in development and implementation of systems redesigns projects, quality improvements and assurance programs of VIR services as well as initiatives designed to improve overall quality through evidence-based medicine and peer review.
- →Participates and facilitates implementation of modern care, utilization of new technologies and new procedures.
- →This includes but is not limited to potentially required personal technical training and education, preparation, review, and finalization of the corresponding standard of care protocols, related and adequate staff instructions and teaching, related literature searches as well as topic and procedure related presentations for appropriate audiences.
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
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
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