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Staff Physician/Colorectal Surgeon
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
About the Role
The VA St. Louis Health Care System is recruiting a board-certified Colorectal Surgeon to provide comprehensive surgical care for benign and malignant colorectal diseases. Responsibilities include outpatient, inpatient, and operative care, general surgery call, and education of trainees. The position requires proficiency in open, laparoscopic, robotic, and endoscopic procedures. Must be eligible for faculty appointment with an established academic affiliate partner of VASTLHCS.
What You'll Do
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- →Louis Health Care System is recruiting a board-certified Colorectal Surgeon to provide comprehensive surgical care for benign and malignant colorectal diseases.
- →Responsibilities include outpatient, inpatient, and operative care, general surgery call, and education of trainees.
- →The position requires proficiency in open, laparoscopic, robotic, and endoscopic procedures.
- →Must be eligible for faculty appointment with an established academic affiliate partner of VASTLHCS.
- →Clinical Responsibilities: Outpatient Care: Provides comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of Veterans with benign and malignant colorectal conditions.
- →Performs in-clinic procedures including high-resolution anoscopy and interventions for HPV-related disease.
- →Collaborates with Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), residents, trainees, and nursing staff to ensure efficient clinic operations and continuity of care.
- →Inpatient Care: Manages hospitalized patients with general and colorectal surgical conditions.
- →Provides consultations and collaborates with other surgical and medical teams for co-management of complex cases.
- →Operative Care: Performs the full spectrum of general and colorectal surgeries using open, laparoscopic, and robotic techniques.
- →Conducts lower endoscopic procedures.
- →Ensures comprehensive preoperative assessment, intraoperative care, and postoperative management.
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).
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: - your performance and conduct; - the needs and interests of the agency; - whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and - whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
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