The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a Clinical Geneticist to deliver comprehensive genetic care to VA patients. This remote position involves providing genetic services through multiple modalities, including virtual care, and actively participating as a member of a multi-disciplinary healthcare team. The incumbent will also coordinate care with other VA clinical services and serve as the collaborating physician for genetic counselors.
Practice Info
• Position is 100% remote outside of working area.
• Provides genetic services via multiple modalities, including virtual care.
• Actively participates as a member of a multi-disciplinary health care team.
• Coordinates care with other VA clinical services.
• Serves as the collaborating physician for genetic counselors.
Responsibilities
• Make independent professional decisions and recommendations.
• Participate in the design of service priorities and objectives.
• Create a culture of commitment to quality, education, compassion, collaboration, innovation, accountability, integrity, and creative problem solving.
• Participate in the development of clinical protocols to ensure evidence-based use of genetic services, including germline genetic testing.
• Deliver high quality of genetic care, including evaluation of performance with respect to standards of care, clinical effectiveness, compliance with policies and quality improvement.
• Use systems-based methods to achieve optimal care coordination.
• Serve as the collaborating physician for genetic counselors, including participation in periodic (e.g., weekly) scheduled meetings with genetic counselors; responding to clinical questions from genetic counselors in a timely way outside of scheduled meetings; participating in weekly case conference, if available; and documenting in the medical record formulated clinical assessments or management plans (e.g., with addenda to genetic counselor notes or co-signing genetic counselor notes), as needed.
• Participate in meetings, conferences, workshops, seminars, and symposia to maintain expertise in clinical genetics to assist with integration of VISN 21 CRH plans and priorities for delivering genetic care.
Compensation
• Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
• Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement for CME (must be full-time with board certification)
• Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
• No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
• Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) eligible: up to $200,000 over one to five years
Benefits
• 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)
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Shift & Schedule
• 8:00am-4:30pm Mon-Fri PST
Requirements
• U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• Degree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine from a VA-approved school.
• Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• Completion of residency training, approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification.
• Board Certified in Clinical Genetics and Genomics by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics.
• Preferred: Experience providing genetic evaluation of adult patients for a variety indications (oncology, cardiology, neurology, reproductive, connective tissue, etc).
• Preferred: Experience providing genetic consultation via telehealth, including video and telephone.
• Preferred: Board certification through training through an American Board of Internal Medicine accredited program.
• No visa sponsorship available.