Family Medicine Physician Job with Veterans Health Administration in Hampton, VA

The Department of Veteran Affairs Outpatient Clinics is growing!

If you love the beach, enjoy music/art, and appreciate the military-look no further & come care for veterans as a Primary Care Physician in our Chesapeake, VA or Virginia Beach, VA clinic or our Hampton VA Medical Center in Hampton, VA!Our Physician Provider will be based out of the main outpatient clinic, as we provide the best whole-health care for veterans in an outpatient setting! The patient pool for our Primary Care Physician is 1200 assigned veterans with an allotted daily patient load of 13-totaling 30-hours a week dedicated to face-to-face care.

The Western Branch Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (WBCBOC) is scheduled to open in April 2025. Those hired for these positions will be required to work at the VA Medical Center or one of the other CBOCs (management determination based on need) until the WBCBOC opens.Open to U.S. Citizens but non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens.

Our Physician Provider will be based out of the main Hampton VA Medical Center hospital and leading a multidisciplinary team (also called Patient Aligned Care Teams-PACTs) as we provide the best whole-health care for veterans in an outpatient setting! The patient pool for our Primary Care Physician is 1200 assigned veterans with an allotted daily patient load of 13-totaling 30-hours a week dedicated to face-to-face care.

The weekly schedule allows for a full half-day for administrative time, and one-hour on all other days. Each PACT is also assigned an RN, LPN, and administrative support/scheduler.

We do have special opportunities for pools of patients to be dedicated to either all geriatrics or women's health.

This position requires no call coverage and has an ideal Monday through Friday workday (8-4:30 pm) with an opportunity for a compressed schedule (4 x 10-hour days).

Please review the overview about The Department of Veteran Affairs.

The following duties are required of the position; they include, but are not limited it:

• Provides a full range of services including assessment and using the most appropriate techniques in providing quality care in their subspecialty.
• Perform appropriate evaluations, diagnosis, and treatment of patients.
• Provide a full range of therapeutic interventions in units/programs in the Hampton VA Medical Center to which they are assigned and has clinical privileges to practice including diagnostic assessment, medication evaluation and management.
• Participates effectively in team meetings and treatment planning conferences and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members in a manner that enhances coordination of comprehensive patient care.
• Orders diagnostic tests and discriminates between normal and abnormal findings and makes appropriate treatment decisions.
• Ensures that the practice of medicine is consistent with the Joint Commission, Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (GARF), VA policies and procedures, clinical· practice guidelines, VISN standards, national statues regulations, medical record documentation, mandatory continuing education, and HIPPA policies.
• Specific tasks are itemized in each physicians Credentialing and Privileging package.
  
  

BENEFITS:

Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases

Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)

Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided

Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restrictions on moonlighting

Work Schedule: 8:00AM - 4:30PM - Monday – Friday; This position requires no call coverage

This position is eligible for our Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) which allows for up to $200K in loan repayment over a 5-year period.

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