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Full-Time Pulmonary Medicine and/or Critical Care and Sleep Medicine BE/BC physician position open in Beautiful Tampa, FL!!
The Medicine Department of James A. Haley Veterans Hospital is seeking a Pulmonary Medicine and/or Critical Care and Sleep Medicine BE/BC physician to join our dynamic team.
Facility Details:. VA Tampa was recently recognized by Newsweek as one of, “America's Greatest Workplaces for Job Starters 2024.” The VA Tampa Healthcare System provides outstanding health care, trains America's future health care providers, and conducts important medical research within our state-of-the-art VA facility here in Sunny Central Florida. We are improving the lives of Veterans and their families, who have so proudly served our nation, every day!
Position Details:
The VA Tampa Healthcare System is actively recruiting a Board Certified or Board Eligible physician in Critical Care and/or Pulmonary Care to help care for our Veterans – America's Heroes. A PCCSM physician candidate with a Sleep Board certification is preferred for this position.
Practice Highlights:
- Management of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine patients in the outpatient, inpatient consult, and telehealth setting
- Work in close collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of experts in providing comprehensive care.
- Basic and translational research in pulmonology, critical care, and sleep medicine
- State-of-the-art bronchoscopy advanced diagnostic and interventional procedures, including diagnostic and titration DISE studies.
The Pulmonary, Critical care, and Sleep Medicine team at the James A. Haley VA hospital include multiple Board-Certified physicians to cover all areas of the subspecialty. Tampa VA PCCSM physicians actively participate in the education of USF Pulmonary and Critical care, and Sleep Medicine in-training fellows, and Internal Medicine residents. Registered Respiratory therapists under the PCCSM section, covers all settings from the MICU, outpatient procedures, sleep studies, and home respiratory care program and works together with our physician in providing the best care anywhere. Case manager registered nurses facilitate the care of outpatient clinic veterans, and APP provide additional coverage and our very successful Lung Cancer Screening program. Recently inaugurated a new bed tower with brand new intensive care unit patient rooms further facilitates best outcomes for our veterans. The VA Tampa Healthcare offers a great work-life balance with extraordinary federal benefits including savings plan and pension.
Duties and responsibilities include, but is not limited to:
- Pulmonary procedures bronchoscopy/EBUS, Pulmonary diagnostics PFTs, CPET, critical care cover Medical ICU.
- Provide timely pulmonary, critical care and sleep medical care to new and established Veterans in the inpatient and outpatient setting.
- Interpretation of pulmonary function tests and both portable and in-lab sleep studies.
- Provides adequate clinic access in Sleep Medicine and Pulmonary including complex sleep medicine care.
- Engage in multidisciplinary care of the growing number of Veterans with pulmonary and sleep related disease following military toxic exposures. Assessing chemical/inhalation exposures including asthma, RADS, ARDS and chemical pneumonitis.
- Engage in multidisciplinary care of the growing number of Veterans who are recognized through lung cancer screening programs to be at risk for lung cancer and facilitate early diagnosis and treatment.
- Address the increased number of diagnostic bronchoscopies because of a robust lung cancer screening program as well as acquisition of the Ion Robotic Bronchoscopy system which allows for sampling of more distal lesions. This will allow for early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer in our Veterans.
- Serve as teaching faculty for USF Internal Medicine, USF Pulmonary Critical Care and USF Sleep Medicine.
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM, (Note: Work schedules are determined and approved by the supervisor. The incumbent may be required to work various shifts on a permanent or temporary basis based on facility/patient care needs. This also includes participation in On-Call coverage for evenings, weekends and holidays).
Salary Range: $320,000-$350,000
**No State or Local Income Tax**
Recruitment Incentive: Eligible
Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Position Eligible up to $200,000
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
Preferred Experience: Board Certified or Board Eligible physician in Critical Care and/or Pulmonary Care. A candidate with a Sleep Board certification preferred.
Community Highlights: Tampa, Florida is home to many great neighborhoods, ranging from active multifamily communities on the downtown waterfront to more relaxed single-family detached neighborhoods. Regardless of where you reside, you'll be sure to find one of Tampa's 146 parks nearby. Our parks offer many recreational and leisure activities, including playgrounds, jogging trails, tennis/pickleball, fishing and art studios.
Schools: The Florida Department of Education (Ranked #1 for the second year in a row) provides a tool to compare school districts within the State of Florida. Florida School Mapping Tool (fldoe.org)
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Compensation Information:
$320000.00 / Annually - $350000.00 / Annually
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