Washington D.C. VA Medical Center seeks Urologist

Enjoy working in a professionally stimulating environment that provides every opportunity to focus on the practice of medicine. Many of the burdensome administrative details usually found in private practice are handled by support staff so that VA physicians can spend their time on patient care, not on running a business. This approach offers a unique freedom of practice to VA physicians and contributes towards providing the highest level of quality care to the Nations Veterans. VA provides a supportive environment that contributes to the delivery of quality health care.

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

• Participate in and/or manage all aspects of a general urology surgery program, to include clinical, administrative, academic and research components if warranted.
• Manage patient workload within available staffing, which may include support of physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and residents.
• Coordinate care with VA's tertiary care facilities and VA-DoD sharing partners and be responsible for the structure and details of the physician rounding schedules and nighttime coverage systems relevant to the care of the urological patient.
• Perform the usual administrative components of patient care management such as: documentation of progress notes and consultation findings in an electronic medical record, dictation and electronic signature of operative reports and hospital discharge summaries, and electronic entry and signature of all doctor's orders for inpatients and outpatients, etc.
• Provide surgical treatment for genitourinary injury and diseases including major and minor procedures, consultations for inpatients and outpatients, and participate in VA approved cooperative research studies.
• Involved in performance improvement and quality assurance initiatives.
• Provides leadership guidance and consultation to staff on units to which assigned.
• The Urologist is involved in the supervision and teaching of house staff and other trainees assigned to unit as appropriate.
• Serve as a consultant to other medical center staff and trainees and assist in implementation of treatment plan as appropriate regarding their patients.