Physician - Family & Preventive Medicine

Corpus Christi, TX 78405

Specialty Family & Preventive Medicine
Profession Physician

The Primary Care Physician functions as the physician leader within a multidisciplinary PACT team or as a float or gap provider assigned to provide comprehensive, collaborative acute and continuity care to an assigned panel of Veterans as well as to patients outside of the assigned panel when Veteran care indicates a need for such.

Duties and responsibilities for the Primary Care Staff Physician include, but are not limited to:

  • Ongoing, continuous care of one or more assigned panel(s) of Veterans.
  • Utilizing all available tools, such as registries, to enable effective and efficient identification and intervention of individual patients and cohorts.
  • Ensuring appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patients assigned to the patient panel.
  • Functioning at the full extent of the team member's relevant clinical privileges, credentials, scopes of practice, elements of practice, certification, functional statement, or other VHA or local facility approved documentation of competency.

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Available for highly qualified candidate
Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Authorized, see details in 'Education section'

 

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards.
Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of annual paid time offer 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: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm, may change based off of needs of the facility
Bargaining Unit: This is a Bargaining Unit position
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required