Physician - Anesthesiology

Harry S. Truman VA in Columbia, Missouri is currently seeking a full-time Anesthesiologist in beautiful Columbia, Missouri. 

VA offers a competitive salary, annual salary increases, generous student loan repayment options and outstanding  work-life balance. Columbia is a great place to work and live,  offering  small-town friendliness with big city features!  Columbia is  centrally located between St. Louis, Kansas City and the stunning Lake of the Ozarks. Columbia offers a wide variety of recreation options, including biking, jogging or walking on Columbia's beautiful greenbelt. For the sports-minded person, Columbia offers top collegiate sporting events with easy access to professional sporting events in nearby St. Louis and Kansas City. Columbia offers excellent school systems, state-of-the-art healthcare facilities,  and entertainment options for all ages. 

Duties:

• Developing and administering an anesthetic plan, which may include General, Regional, or Local anesthesia and intravenous sedation (monitored anesthesia).

• Performing and documenting a preanesthetic assessment and evaluation of the patient, including requesting consultations and diagnostic studies, selecting, obtaining, ordering, or administering preanesthetic medications and fluids, and obtaining informed consent for anesthesia.

• Selecting, obtaining, or administering the anesthetics, adjuvant drugs, accessory drugs, and fluids necessary to manage the anesthetic, to maintain the patient's physiologic homeostasis, and to correct responses to the anesthetic or surgery.

• Selecting, applying or inserting appropriate noninvasive and invasive monitoring modalities for collecting and interpreting patient physiological data. Appropriately managing a patient's airway.

• Managing emergence and recovery from anesthesia by selecting, obtaining, ordering, or administering medications, fluids, or ventilatory support in order to maintain physiologic homeostasis, to provide relief from pain, anesthesia side effects, and to prevent or manage complications.

• Responding to cardio-pulmonary emergency situations

• Expected to be on-call as necessary.

Work Schedule: Full-time  NOTE: Expected to participate in on-call rotation

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus):    Is authorized 
Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): May be eligible to    receive up to $200,000  in school loan repayment.
Pay:  Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off:  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)
Retirement:  Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance:    Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure:  Practice anywhere with 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
CME:  Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)
Malpractice:  Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract:  No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting