Join Our Team: Exciting Opportunity for a Section Chief of Urology! Embrace the chance to lead and innovate in a dynamic healthcare environment. Apply now and elevate your career with us!

The Salisbury VA Health Care System is seeking an experienced board-certified Urologist to provide exemplary care to our veterans. We are confident that you will find a career path that is diverse, team-oriented and focused on making a real difference by serving veterans and their families. Discover a career with rich rewards, limitless opportunities for growth/mobility, and competitive salaries and benefits.

Duties can include but are not limited to performing:

• This position reports directly to the ACOS of surgery and is responsible for providing the most effective delivery of clinical/surgical care throughout the medical center while meeting and exceeding compliance standards.
• Provides guidance to interns, residents/fellows, medical students, physician assistants and nurse practitioners and are eligible for clinical appointment at Wake Forest University.
• Delivers patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, treatment of disease, and care at the end of life. Comfortable providing training and/or direction to support staff assigned to the unit during the performance of duties.
• As a chief, you will be in the clinic or Operating room 5 days per week and have 20% admin time.
• This position is supervisory, and you will have an average of 8 direct reports and 2 residents.

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 Urology. Must be eligible for academic appointment.
• Experience: Five + years
• Academic Affiliation: Atrium Wake Forest

Benefits

The VA offers all employees' industry leading full benefits and features-package to support high quality professional practice & a favorable work-life-family balance. The VA package includes:

• Competitive Salary Range: $380,000-$400,000.
• 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)
• Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided.
• Benefits Include: Dental, Medical, Life Insurance, Pension, Thrift Savings Plan (401K) with 5% match, Survivor Benefits etc.
• Continuing education: Up to $1,000 or more annually
• Service without strings: No employment contracts, non-compete clauses, restrictive covenants, or other significant restrictions on outside work.

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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