Primary Care Physician

The Atlanta, GA VA Medical Center is seeking a BE/BC Family Practice or Internal Medicine Physician to join their dynamic healthcare team at various Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC). The physician will work as a member of a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive primary medical care and education to enrolled veterans. This role offers a balanced schedule with no call, holidays, or weekends, along with competitive federal benefits and compensation.

Practice Info

• Openings are located and/or projected at Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC) in Rome, GA, Carrollton, GA, Marietta, GA, Pickens, GA, Blairsville, GA, Pike, GA, and Newnan, GA
• Works as a member of a multidisciplinary health care team
• Primary care via a patient-centered medical home model
• Uses a comprehensive electronic medical record
• Assigned a patient panel of 1000–1200 patients
• Seeing 8-14 patients per 8 hour day

Shift & Schedule

• No call, holidays or weekends
• Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other members of the team to provide medical care to veterans enrolled on the team
• Demonstrate advanced competencies and skills in assessing the physical and psychological status of patients
• Provide comprehensive patient assessment, health history, physical examination, and patient education to veterans in the Primary Care team setting
• Provide prescribed medical treatment and personal care services to ill and injured veterans
• Assume leadership in a patient-centered program
• Establish effective communication with patients, families, visitors and members of the interdisciplinary team

Compensation

• $260,000-$280,000 base salary (negotiable) per year
• A recruitment/relocation incentive may be authorized for a highly qualified candidate

Benefits

• Selected candidates may be eligible to apply for student loan repayment through the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP)
• Up to 55 days off annually
• $200,000 in loan repayment
• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave

Qualifications

• BE/BC Family Practice/Internal Medicine Physician
• Possess good organizational skills which enable completion of work
• Demonstrated ability to assume leadership in a patient-centered program
• Ability to establish effective communication with patients, families, visitors and members of the interdisciplinary team
• Citizen of the United States: (Noncitizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens)
• Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the U.S. or in the District of Columbia
• Must have a degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in medicine or osteopathic medicine
• Degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed
• All applicants must meet the physical requirements established for this position