Military / VA Pulmonary Medicine: Critical Care Job in Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
This pulmonary medicine and critical care position at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada is offered as a Military/VA arrangement, one of several structures under which this role is available, alongside employed and contract options. As federal employment, the role involves caring for active-duty personnel, veterans, and their families, with compensation and benefits following federal schedules and malpractice coverage provided under federal protection. The arrangement is generally associated with predictable scheduling and a mission-driven patient population, separate from the administrative and billing responsibilities of private practice.
For this listing, the financial structure is an employment agreement with a production bonus under contract, with the financial offering tier listed as Open. Relocation assistance is available. There is no patient call and no emergency department call associated with this role.
Candidates may be Board Certified or Board Eligible, MD or DO trained, and either American or foreign medical graduates; US citizenship or Green Card status is required. The role is open to physicians across a range of experience levels, from recently trained to very experienced.
- Position Type: Permanent
- Recruited Specialty: Pulmonary Medicine: Critical Care
- Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: Yes
- Structure of Position: Employed by Hospital/Clinic/MSO/Other, Military/VA, Contract
- Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
- Expected Patient Call Coverage: No call
- Expected ER Call Coverage: No call
Scope of Work:
- Will see on average 7-9 patients per day per clinic.
- Services include the full range of pulmonary medical care for inpatient and outpatient VA beneficiaries including consultation, diagnosis, therapy and treatment, and prognosis of patients with pulmonary disorders and critical care needs, PFT interpretation, for e-consults, and for sleep medicine (optional but desirable) if they have sleep medicine expertise.
- Inpatient and ED consultation as required by inpatient providers and management of patients with pulmonary disorders.
- Clinics are scheduled as required, consisting of a mix of new and follow up patients totaling up to ten (10) patients seen per clinic, depending on the complexity of care required. Clinics are scheduled based on patient workload and/or at the discretion of the Chief, Medical Service.
- Participate in regularly scheduled meetings to discuss improvements to meet performance measures and other quality assurance issues when standards are not met. Meetings will be scheduled at the discretion of the Chief, Medical Services.
- Contractor physician consultation to on-site residents and/or VA staff can be accomplished by phone after normal work hours and weekends and holidays, unless the clinical situation warrants patient contact, such as in ED.
- Response Times. Contractor physicians shall respond within 15 minutes via telephone to calls and/or pages from VASNHCS for consultation. Contactor physicians shall respond within 30 minutes to the VASNHCS facility when requested.
- If you are not interested in this location, please let us know what opportunities you would be interested in as we get new positions throughout the country daily. Feel free to forward this to anyone who may be interested in working with the military or the VA as a contracted civilian, as we do offer a referral bonus.
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- Structure of Financial Support: Employment Agreement with production bonus, Contract
- Financial Offering: Open
- Compensation Range: $413,944 - $599,274 per year
- Relocation Allowance: Yes
- Signing Bonus: Negotiable
- Stipends: Negotiable
- Student Loan Assistance: Negotiable
- Practice State: Nevada
- Practice City: Nellis Air Force Base
- Community Size: Less than 10,000, 10,000 - 24,999, 25,000 - 49,999, 50,000 - 99,999, 100,000 - 499,999, 500,000+
- 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: Clinic
- Number of Providers:
- Agency: Loyal Source Government Services
