Infectious Disease Physician Job with Veterans Health Administration in Martinsburg, WV

Excellent Benefits/Great Work-Life Balance!!

This is a full-time Infectious Disease Physician opportunity located in the heart of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle at the Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in historic Berkeley County, a part of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley.

This opportunity is approximately 85 miles West of Baltimore, Maryland, and 75 miles Northwest of Washington DC. Martinsburg VA Medical Center has approximately 42,000 Veterans enrolled. Our catchment area includes West Virginia, Western Maryland, Southern Western Pennsylvania, and Northern Virginia.

Martinsburg VA Medical Center comprises the main medical campus in Martinsburg and seven Community Based Outpatient Centers; and provides care to veterans from a wide variety of socioeconomic, multicultural, and educational backgrounds.

Job Responsibilities

The Physician is directly accountable to the Chief of Medicine. Physician will spend a majority of time providing inpatient and outpatient consultation. The selected candidate will:

• oversee the Infection Control and Anti-biotic usage programs,
• treatment and care for HIV patients. The physician may also be assigned to perform other clinical duties as assigned within the service.
• Clinical management of patients including the stabilization of acute complications and may include the initiation of basic life support
• Participates in the team approach to ensure appropriate patient assessments, anticipates patient care needs, prevents avoidable complications, and achieves optimal patient conditions.
• Implementing and complying with administrative review of the service’s operations to assure compliance with all internal and external review requirements.
• Performs appropriate charting including timely documentation of patient assessment and plan of care.
• Participates in committees if requested.
• Under the direction of the Chief of Medicine shall be accountable for all clinical duties and assignments that he/she deems necessary.
  
  

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Education: Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in medicine or osteopathic medicine.
• Licensure and Registration: Physicians must possess a current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia. The physician must maintain current registration in the state of licensure if this is a
  
  

requirement for continuing active, current licensure.

• Residency Training: Physicians must have completed residency training, approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification. (NOTE: VA physicians involved in training programs may be required to be board certified for faculty status.) Approved residencies are:
• Those approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), b) OR
• Those approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA),OR
• Other residencies (non-US residency training programs followed by a minimum of five years of verified practice in the United States), which the local Medical Staff Executive Committee deems to have provided the applicant with appropriate professional training and believes has exposed
  
  

the physician to an appropriate range of patient care experiences.

Residents currently enrolled in ACGME/AOA accredited residency training programs and who would otherwise meet the basic requirements for appointment are eligible to be appointed as "Physician Resident Providers" (PRPs). PRPs must be fully licensed physicians (i.e., not a training license) and may only be appointed on an intermittent or fee-basis. PRPs are not considered independent practitioners and will not be privileged; rather, they are to have a "scope of practice" that allows them to perform certain restricted duties under supervision.

• Board Certification in Internal Medicine with Subspecialty in Infectious Disease preferred.
  
  

Working Hours

Monday - Friday, 8:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M., with the potential for some weekends, as well as on-call coverage; however, subject to change, depending on the needs of the service/medical center.

Skills

• Order appropriate diagnostic tests and work-up
• Review and interpret diagnostic tests and take appropriate action
• Formulate and record diagnostic impressions
• Ensure accurate documentation of medical assessments, interactions and observations.
• Demonstrates competent and effective oral and written communication and provides appropriate patient/family member teaching and education.