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Physician - Pulmonologist - Critical Care
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 108 days ago
About the Role
The Physician is assigned to the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System Pulmonary section. The physician will be 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 physician is responsible for providing care for to veterans admitted to the ICU or hospital or hospital with acute respiratory failure, acute severe COPD exacerbations, severe asthma exacerbation, pneumonia, ARDS, and septic shock and other life-threatening pulmonary conditions.
- →The physician is responsible for providing care to outpatient veterans with COPD, asthma, bronchiectasis, sarcoidosis, hypoxic and/or hypercapnic respiratory failure, pleural effusions, pulmonary nodules, and other pulmonary conditions in addition to sleep apnea.
- →The physician will supervise health care trainees including medical students, interns, residents, and fellows.
- →Duties include, but are not limited to, the following: Providing care to veterans admitted to the intensive care unit.
- →Providing pulmonary consultations to inpatient veterans.
- →Providing care to veterans in the pulmonary and sleep clinics.
- →Perform diagnostic bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound.
- →Perform central venous catheter and arterial line placement.
- →Perform endotracheal intubation in addition to non-invasive and invasive ventilator management.
- →Perform thoracentesis, thoracostomy tube placement, and tunneled pleural catheter placement Perform interpretation of pulmonary function tests (PFTs), arterial blood gas (ABG), and ambulatory pulse oximetry studies.
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.
Personality Fit
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