•Work Schedule: Mon-Fri: 8AM-4:30PM
•CME Reimbursement: Possible $2000 per year (must be Board Certified)
•Malpractice Liability Protection with tail coverage
•Incentive: Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment)
•Paid Time Off: 26 paid vacation days, 13 paid sick days, and 11 paid holidays, 5 paid CME attendance days
•Pay Incentives: Regular salary increases and annual performance bonus
•Health, Dental, & Vision Insurance
•Retirement: Traditional Federal Pension (5-year vesting) and Federal 401K with up to 5% agency match
•Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
•Predictable work schedules with a focus on quality rather than volume
•Clinical research opportunities and possible academic affiliation
Required Education:
MD/DO
Internal Number: 91067376
The Memphis VA Medical Center has an opening for a Section Chief of Radiation-Oncology with a dual academic affiliation appointment with the University of Tennessee. The position reports directly to the Service Chief and is responsible for the administration, management, and leadership of the entire Radiation-Oncology Department.
The Medical Center consists of one main campus and ten community-based outpatient clinics (CBOCs). It’s a 1a complexity tertiary care VA healthcare system located in one of the fastest growing Veteran population regions in the United States. The facility provides comprehensive care to almost 69,000 enrolled Veterans in a 52-county area of Western Tennessee, Northern Mississippi, and Northeast Arkansas. It includes 236 inpatient beds with a 26-bed Spinal Cord Injury Unit. It is a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology, as well as extensive education and research programs. Comprehensive primary, secondary, and tertiary health care is provided in areas of medicine, general cardiovascular, surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, neurology, oncology, rheumatology, geriatrics, Women’s Health, and Dentistry.
Board Certified in Radiation Oncology
Five plus years of leadership experience preferred
Full and unrestricted license from ANY state
US Citizenship: Non-citizens may be considered when it’s not possible to recruit qualified citizens
Be proficient in the written and spoken use of the English language
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care at 1,321 health care facilities, including 172 VA Medical Centers and 1,138 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics) to over 9 million Veterans enrolled in the VA health care program. VHA Medical Centers provide a wide range of services including traditional hospital-based services such as surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology and physical therapy. In addition, most of our medical centers offer additional medical and surgical specialty services including audiology & speech pathology, dermatology, dental, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, podiatry, prosthetics, urology, and vision care. Some medical centers also offer advanced services such as organ transplants and plastic surgery.
