Career Center

The Kernersville Health Care Center is actively seeking a full-time Primary Care Physician to join our team. At the Kernersville Health Care Center, we are confident you will find a career path that is diverse, team-oriented and focused on making a real difference serving veterans and their families. Discover a career with rich rewards, limitless opportunities for growth/mobility, and competitive salaries and benefits.

Position Highlights

Work Life Balance

Manageable workload

Opportunities to contribute to and grow the department in your field of expertise.

High service demand due to growing veteran population.

Wake Forest university academia Opportunities.

Practice Environment Description: Outpatient Clinic, Medical, and Surgery Subspecialties include Dialysis, Endoscopy, outpatient OR, and Urgent Care on site. MRI on site.

Academic Affiliation: Wake Forest

Opportunity Highlights: Residency from Wake Forest Internal Medicine comes through the clinic. Medicine Services has fellows.

Benefits

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) a student loan payment reimbursement program.

Work Schedule: M-F 08:00-1630

Call Schedule: None

Pay:  Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off:  50-55 days of annual paid time offer 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 V.A.
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 U.S. State or territory
CME:  Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement
Malpractice:  Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract:  No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restrictions on moonlighting

Requirements

U.S. Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is impossible to recruit qualified citizens, in accordance with VA Policy.

Education: A Doctor of Medicine degree or an equivalent degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine is required.

Licensure: Candidates must possess a current, complete, and unrestricted license to practice medicine in a state, territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.

Residency: Completion of a residency program in an accredited core specialty.

Board Certification: Candidates must be board-certified or board-eligible in Internal Medicine.

About Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration

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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