Military / VA Pulmonary Medicine: Critical Care Job in Topeka, Kansas
This Pulmonary Medicine: Critical Care position in Topeka, Kansas is a permanent role offered through a Military/VA practice structure. In this setting, you serve active-duty personnel, veterans, and their families as a federal employee, with compensation following federal schedules and malpractice coverage provided under federal protection. These positions are generally known for schedule predictability and freedom from the billing and business administration found in private practice.
Compensation for this listing is structured as an Income Guarantee combined with Straight Employment, with the financial offering listed as Open. Emergency department call follows a 1:3 rotation.
- Open to Board Certified and Board Eligible candidates
- Allopathic (MD) and Osteopathic (DO) training accepted
- American Medical Graduates and Foreign Medical Graduates welcome
- US Citizens and Green Card holders eligible
- Suitable for recently trained, experienced, and very experienced physicians
The surrounding community options range from under 10,000 residents up to communities of 100,000–499,999, allowing some flex
- Position Type: Permanent
- Recruited Specialty: Pulmonary Medicine: Critical Care
- Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: No
- Structure of Position: Military/VA
- Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
- Expected Patient Call Coverage: (not specified)
- Expected ER Call Coverage: 1:3
The VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System (VA EKHCS) is currently recruiting for a Pulmonologist at our Topeka VA Medical Center. Board Certification (strongly preferred) or Board Eligibility in Internal Medicine with subspecialty board certification/eligibility in pulmonary medicine and critical care preferred. Duties include, but are not limited to: •Coordinate the clinical care of the medicine patients and collaborate with the other service(s) on the care of their patients. •Facilitate communication among primary care physicians, hospitalists, specialists, patients and their families •Provide inpatient consultations and attending responsibilities in pulmonary/critical care/sleep medicine and bronchoscopic procedures in appropriate cases; conduct general pulmonary/sleep outpatient clinics. •Responsible for appropriate documentation of clinic notes, consultations and procedures using the computerized patient record; and performing routine/emergency diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. •Admit, examine, treat, transfer and discharge patients referred to your service that require inpatient care and when appropriate •Perform daily rounds on all assigned inpatients and write daily progress notes. •Provide supplemental coverage to coverage to ICU in support of assigned hospitalist(s). Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Basic Life Support/Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (BLS/CPR) certification required. •Minimal night and weekend call coverage, as needed. •Additional reimbursement may be available for agreeing to cover weekend and night time hospitalist call. •Participate in activities of the medical center that are designed to meet the requirements of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health care Organizations (The Joint Commission) and other regulatory agencies as they apply to the position. •Participate in committees and review processes when needed or requested. •Travel to the Leavenworth campus may be required. Salary is determined by a compensation panel of peers based on experience, training and local labor market considerations Work Schedule: 8:00 - 4:30 with minimal night and weekend call coverage.
- Structure of Financial Support: Income Guarantee, Straight Employment
- Financial Offering: Open
- Compensation Range: $413,944 - $599,274 per year
- Relocation Allowance: Negotiable
- Signing Bonus: Negotiable
- Stipends: No
- Student Loan Assistance: Negotiable
- Practice State: Kansas
- Practice City: Topeka
- Community Size: Less than 10,000, 10,000 - 24,999, 25,000 - 49,999, 50,000 - 99,999, 100,000 - 499,999
- Community Details: Registered Candidates Only
- Location of Medical Training: American Medical Graduate (AMG), Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG)
- Medical Training Type: Allopathic (MD), Osteopathic (DO)
- Board Certification: Board Certified, Board Eligible
- Work Status Requirements: US Citizen, Green Card
- Preferred Experience Level: Recently Trained, Experienced, Very Experienced
- Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes
- Facility Type: Hospital
- Number of Hospital Beds: 100
- Number of ER Visits Per Year:
- Number of Deliveries Per Year:
- Hospital: VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System
