Southern California Permanente Medical Group
Posted: 25-Aug-24
Location: Aurora, Colorado
Salary: Open
Categories: Physicians/Surgeons
Internal Number: 796416100
This position is located in Aurora, CO. To qualify for this position, you must meet the basic requirements as well as any additional requirements listed in the job announcement. Applicants pending the completion of training or license requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.
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.
- Degree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in medicine or osteopathic medicine from an approved school.
- 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.
- Completed residency training approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program.
- Proficiency in spoken and written English.
Additional Requirement:
Board certified or in process of becoming certified.
Preferred Experience:
TEE (transesophageal echocardiogram) and Cardiac.
Physical Requirements:
Applicants must meet physical standards for the position, including a physical examination prior to placement. This is a designated drug testing position. After appointment, you will be subject to random testing for illegal drug use.
Duties Functions/Scope:
- Consultation for medical and surgical patients.
- Image-guided procedures.
- Interpretation of laboratory results.
- Management of both normal perioperative fluid therapy and massive fluid and/or blood loss.
- Management of patients requiring general anesthesia, deep sedation, regional anesthesia monitored anesthetic care for elective and emergent surgery.
- Management of normal and abnormal airways.
- Mechanical ventilation.
- Pharmacologic support of the circulation.
- Placement of venous and arterial catheters.
- Preoperative assessment of patients scheduled for surgery.
- Recognition, prevention, and treatment of pain in medical and surgical patients.
- Sedation or anesthesia outside the operating rooms.
- Temperature regulation.
Benefits:
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package including:
- Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases.
- 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays, and possible 5 days paid absence for CME).
- Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
- Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care insurance.
- Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement for CME (must be full-time with board certification).
- Free liability protection with tail coverage provided.
Work Schedule:
Monday thru Friday 0800-430pm.
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