The Memphis VA Medical Center, Polytrauma Clinic is seeking a Physical Med and Rehab Physiatrist with Spinal Cord Injury/Disorder experience.  The medical center consists of one main campus, which includes a sixty-bed Spinal Cord Injury Unit, a women’s health clinic, and ten community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC). It is a tertiary care facility classified as a Clinical Referral Level 1 Facility and one of the most complex medical centers in the VA system. 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 primary care, general cardiovascular, neurological surgery, psychiatry, pain management, physical medicine and rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, neurology, oncology, rheumatology, geriatrics, optometry, and dentistry. Services are available to more than 200,000 Veterans living in a fifty-three-county, tri-state area (Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi).

• Board Eligible/Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Full and unrestricted license from ANY US State or territory
• Two years of experience in Spinal Cord Injury/Disorder
• Board Eligible/Board Certified in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine (SCIM)
• Current BLS/CPR certification
• Be proficient in the written and spoken English language
• US Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens

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About Memphis VA Medical Center

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.

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