Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Recruitment/relocation incentive is authorized for highly qualified applicants. Amount to be determined.
Education Debt Reduction Program: Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) Authorized: This position is eligible for EDRP, a student loan payment reimbursement program.
Amazing opportunity to serve Our Nation's Veterans as a full-time General Cardiologist, at the VA Nebraska-Western Iowa VA Health Care System (VANWIHCS).
Preferred Experience: Must be board certified/eligible by the American College of Cardiology.
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
- Generalized duties of a staff cardiologist involve focusing on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of many different heart and blood vessel conditions, including coronary artery disease, heart arrhythmia, high blood pressure, peripheral arterial disease, and heart failure.
- Standard tests are used, such as electrocardiograms, to make diagnoses. Specialized treatments may include percutaneous coronary angioplasty and pacemaker installation. The cardiologist may confer with cardiac surgeons when major surgery is deemed necessary.
- The cardiologist in this position will include interpretation of transthoracic echocardiography and stress echocardiography, performance and interpretation of transesophageal echo, interpretation of electrocardiograms and stress electrocardiograms, to staff outpatient cardiology clinics, to provide cardiology consult services as scheduled, on both inpatient and outpatient basis.
- This cardiologist will perform cardioversions on both an inpatient and outpatient basis. The cardiologist will serve as the attending physician for cardiology fellows in training.
- A progress note must be entered on all patients cared for by the cardiologist upon consultation, procedure, or clinic visit. Timely documentation is necessary in all areas in accordance with departmental policy. All administrative work should be completed in a timely fashion. Patient record documentation should be entered by the physician into the medical record directly (computerized patient record system -CPRS). Prohibited abbreviations should not be used.
Work Schedule: Tour to be determined.