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Physician (Pulmonary Section Chief)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 61 days ago
About the Role
The Physician is assigned to the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System Pulmonary section. The physician will be the Chief of Pulmonology on a rotating schedule covering a variety of clinical services including, but not limited to, the intensive care unit (ICU), inpatient pulmonary consultation service, outpatient pulmonary clinic, and outpatient sleep clinic. Schedule assignments will be based on the needs of the pulmonary section.
What You'll Do
- →VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.
- →VHA Physician Total Rewards.
- →This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until December 31, 2026 or until positions are filled.
- →Eligible applications received will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur.
- →The first cut-off date is 07/30/2026.
- →Major duties include, but are not limited to: Inpatient Responsibilities - Clinical Oversight & Leadership: Provide senior-level oversight for all inpatient pulmonary and critical care services, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based care for veterans with acute respiratory failure, COPD exacerbations, pneumonia, ARDS, and other complex pulmonary conditions.
- →Advanced Pulmonary Procedures: Perform and supervise bronchoscopy, thoracentesis, pleural procedures, and interpretation of chest imaging and pulmonary function tests (PFTs), ensuring competency standards across the section.
- →Emergency Response Leadership: Serve as a clinical leader for emergency response events, ensuring coordinated and timely management.
- →Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Guide collaboration between intensivists, respiratory therapists, hospitalists, and other specialists to optimize care for critically ill patients and streamline care pathways.
- →Consultation Oversight: Provide and oversee complex inpatient pulmonary consultations, including advanced lung disease management and coordination for transplant-related evaluations.
- →Outpatient Responsibilities: Supervise and deliver comprehensive outpatient pulmonary care for chronic respiratory diseases including asthma, COPD, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension, and sleep-related disorders.
- →PFT Interpretation & Quality Assurance: Oversee the performance and interpretation of pulmonary function testing, spirometry, and diffusion studies, maintaining high-quality standards and timely reporting.
- →Patient Education & Advocacy: Promote patient-centered education initiatives, ensuring veterans receive guidance on disease management, preventive strategies, and long-term respiratory health.
- →Telehealth Program Leadership: Expand and supervise telehealth service delivery, including management of home oxygen programs to improve access for veterans.
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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