Physician; General Surgery

• Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

The surgeon will provide direct surgical care to inpatient and outpatients; assist in the clinical education of surgical residents and students and pursue research opportunities (if available or desired), and participate in administrative assignments, such as committee membership.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards. COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS:
* Members of your specialty care team, CRNAs, RNSAs, Anesthesiologists, Chief of Surgery, O.R. personnel, staff supporting Inpatient/Outpatient environment and wide range of various other professionals and support staff throughout the medical center and community-based outpatient centers (CBOC's).

Direct patient care will include veteran patients and interaction with family members or those identified as guardians or significant others. PURPOSE OF POSITION:
* The surgeon will provide direct surgical care to inpatient and outpatients; assist in the clinical education of surgical residents and students and pursue research opportunities (if available or desired); and participate in administrative assignments, such as committee membership.

* Practice elements will include the full range of adult general surgery, including inpatient management, outpatient clinic care and telemedicine, with VA referral sites throughout Southcentral Ohio. The Cincinnati VA Medical Center has a comprehensive general surgery team; surgeries to remove gallbladders and appendixes; colonoscopies and thyroidectomies.

Our team also specializes in colorectal cancer; concurrent surgeries with orthopedics, urology and vascular surgery; breast cancer; and liver resections.
* The facility has also developed a multidisciplinary team committed to the use of advance techniques for the salvage of extremities threatened by Diabetic Foot Disease. SCOPE OF ASSIGNED DUTIES:
* Provide resident supervision and clinical instruction in the operating room, outpatient clinic and inpatient settings.

* Attend, participate and supervise residents/students in outpatient clinics and take an active role in the evaluation of the patient, decision for treatment/care, and documentation in the patient electronic records.
* Follows the VA Guidelines established for resident supervision, including those documentation requirements in the electronic patient healthcare record.
* Conduct postoperative follow-up.

Accompany the patient to the PACU assuring that the patient's condition is optimal. If admitted, visit in-house patient within 24-48 hours following anesthesia to assess post-surgical recovery.
* Supervise Residents/students in clinical instruction and the performance of any bedside procedures appropriate to their level of graduate responsibility.
* Participate in call coverage to advise and supervise residents.

An on-call response time of 15 minutes by phone and 60 minutes in person is expected of Staff Surgeons at VAMC Cincinnati. This includes night, weekend and holiday hours.
* Maintains professional competency, courtesy and flexibility to provide the necessary services of this specialty.
* Provide regional level specialty support to VA facilities located in South-central Ohio through such means as tele-medicine and referral-based consultations and treatment.

* Meet annual and mandatory training requirements that are specific to the Veterans Healthcare Administration.
* In order to support Graduate Medical Education, applicants must be competitive for faculty appointment in the Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of Cincinnati in order to be considered for selection.

* Staff may be assigned to committee membership to represent the surgical service or the hospital medical staff, and actively participate in carrying out assignments by that committee.
* The surgeon must be able to function as an independent clinical provider. Initiative, diplomacy, and confidentiality are employed when dealing with patients, staff and trainees. Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus):
Recruitment Incentive approved for qualifying applicants.

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…