Physician-Anesthesiologist w/ Recruitment Incentive and Relocation Incentive

At the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center and clinics, we serve 20,000 Veterans across 25 counties in Michigan and Wisconsin. Our health care teams are guided by the needs of our Veterans, and their families and caregivers. We are committed to providing all eligible Veterans with exceptional health care services, and online services to help manage health, check upcoming events, and sign up for email updates.

The Iron Mountain VA Healthcare System is seeking an Anesthesiologist in the Surgery, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Service with specific duties to provide care to those in the operating room and to serve as Chief of Anesthesiology. This position is necessary to provide specialized clinical Anesthesiology services for surgical patients and those undergoing other diagnostic and therapeutic non-operative procedures.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday; 08:00am-4:30pm

• Develops guidelines for employee engagement performance requirements, measuring levels of
  engagement, retraining, and developing talent to achieve a high-quality diverse workforce.
• Responsible assisting with the strategic planning and operation of the Surgical
  Service. The employee is responsible for ensuring the administrative and clinical supervision of
  surgical staff in their professional role. Incumbent ensures the provision of surgery services in a
  variety of inpatient and outpatient program areas and clinics.
• Assists with all surgery activities within the medical center ensuring that educational and
  quality surgical care needs of Veterans are met. To accomplish the functions of this position, close
  cooperation with leadership, and the Service Chief is required.
• Participates in making major decisions affecting the basic content and character of the
  operations of surgery. These decisions involve matters, such as, determining which surgery elements
  should be initiated, dropped, curtailed, or emphasized; how many resources should be deployed; the
  time of curtailing, initiating, and changing surgery elements; basic service planning, evaluation of
  service goals and objectives; decisions on organizational structure and delegated responsibility.
  measures for improving coordination among surgery service, and control measures to provide data for
  management and reports results to Chief of Surgery.

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 restriction on moonlighting