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Physician - Pain Medicine Specialist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 53 days ago
About the Role
This Pain Medicine Specialist position requires the incumbent to provide patient care, direction, oversight, administration and leadership in the management of Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). The VA Puget Sound Health Care System has an academic affiliation with the University of Washington (UW) and as such, this position participates in the education of medical trainees, therefore a clinical appointment at UW is included.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but are not limited to: Providing and assisting with the coordination of care for chronic pain patients enrolled with the Pain Service.
- →Providing consultation service locally and regionally for providers working with complex chronic pain care and providing education to patients and to providers regarding safe and sustainable chronic pain care and effective functional restoration of patients suffering with chronic pain.
- →Completing detailed history and physical exams, as well as health inventories, ordering and interpreting diagnostic studies and prescribing appropriate medication and other treatment modalities.
- →Developing, evaluating and managing medical treatment plans intended to achieve defined outcomes that improve the patient's quality of life as part of a coordinated multidisciplinary treatment team focused on safe and sustainable chronic pain care and functional restoration of patients living with chronic pain.
- →Diagnosing and treating complex chronic pain problems and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).
- →Ordering, performing, reviewing, analyzing and following up on appropriate diagnostic/laboratory test results, including any registries necessary to monitor and support the patient's medication therapy, and communicating findings to patients and other providers, including additional surveillance and/or testing requirements necessary as per VA policy.
- →Reviewing non-VA records and updating CPRS and/or other electronic health records with outside records.
- →Performing suicide and opioid risk screenings and assessments.
- →Treating inpatients and outpatients with chronic pain and providing opioid reduction, harm reduction, and opioid safety/Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) services as needed.
- →Providing patient care via multiple modalities, including in person, video, and telephone visits on an individual or group basis, as well as electronic consults for referred patients for comprehensive pain management.
- →Assisting in the development, coordination and implementation of Pain Clinic workflows, programs, initiatives, and therapies.
- →Participating in events such as weekly Tele-Pain/SCAN-ECHO conferences, UW Anesthesiology Grand Rounds and VAPSHCS Anesthesiology Morbidity and Mortality conferences, as requested and as appropriate to work tour.
- →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.
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 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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