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Physician - Kidney Transplant Surgeon
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 14 days ago
About the Role
The Central Virginia VA Health Care System (CVHCS) in Richmond, Virginia is recruiting 2 Intermittent Physicians within the Surgery Care Service.
What You'll Do
- →The Richmond VA Medical Center is a level 1a 349-bed facility offering primary, secondary, and tertiary health care in medicine, surgery, neurology, rehabilitation medicine, intermediate care, acute and sustaining spinal cord injury, skilled nursing home care, and palliative care.
- →There are four community-based outpatient clinics located in Charlottesville, Fredericksburg, Emporia and Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and a strong affiliation with the Medical College of Virginia.
- →VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.
- →VHA Physician Total Rewards.
- →Performs deceased donor and living donor kidney transplant evaluations.
- →Performs kidney transplant surgery, donor nephrectomy (if credentialed), back-table preparation, and surgical management of complications.
- →Participates effectively in multidisciplinary transplant team meetings, waitlist reviews, and care planning conferences.
- →Orders diagnostic tests, interprets results, and makes appropriate clinical decisions for transplant patients.
- →Ensures compliance with Joint Commission, OPTN/UNOS, VA policies, VISN standards, and mandatory documentation requirements.
- →Fulfills all transplant-specific credentialing and privileging requirements.
- →Provides 24/7 transplant surgical on-call coverage, including emergent response to organ offers.
- →Participates in performance improvement and quality assurance initiatives, including UNOS-required quality activities.
- →Provides leadership guidance and clinical expertise to transplant program staff.
- →Supervises and teaches surgical residents, fellows, and medical trainees assigned to the transplant service.
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.
- ✓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.
- ✓The degree must have been obtained from an institution whose accreditation was in place for the year in which the course of study was completed.
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