Physician - Family & Preventive Medicine

The Department of Veteran Affairs Outpatient Clinics is growing!

OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans?

Hampton has a rich and extensive 20th-century military history - home of Langley Air Force Base, the nation's first military installation dedicated solely to air power and the home of the U.S. Air Force's 633rd Air Base Wing and 1st and 192nd Fighter Wings. Hampton has been a center of military aviation training, research and development for nearly a hundred years, from early prop planes and Zeppelins to rocket parts and advanced fighters. Its proximity to Norfolk means that Hampton has long been home to many Navy families. Hampton is home to several arts venues and museums dedicated to Hampton's rich history. Notable venues in the city include The American Theatre, the Casemate Museum, the Charles Taylor Visual Arts Center, Hampton History Museum, Hampton University Museum, the Performing & Creative Arts Center, and the Virginia Air & Space Center.

The Western Branch Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (WBCBOC). Those hired for these positions will be required to work at the VA Medical Center or one of the other CBOCs (management determination based on need) until the WBCBOC opens.   Open to U.S. Citizens but non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens.

Please review the overview about The Department of Veteran Affairs.

The following duties are required of the position; they include, but are not limited it:

• Provides a full range of services including assessment and using the most appropriate techniques in providing quality care in their subspecialty.
• Perform appropriate evaluations, diagnosis, and treatment of patients.
• Provide a full range of therapeutic interventions in units/programs in the Hampton VA Medical Center to which they are assigned and has clinical privileges to practice including diagnostic assessment, medication evaluation and management.
• Participates effectively in team meetings and treatment planning conferences and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members in a manner that enhances coordination of comprehensive patient care.
• Orders diagnostic tests and discriminates between normal and abnormal findings and makes appropriate treatment decisions.
• Ensures that the practice of medicine is consistent with the Joint Commission, Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (GARF), VA policies and procedures, clinical practice guidelines, VISN standards, national statues regulations, medical record documentation, mandatory continuing education, and HIPPA policies.
• Specific tasks are itemized in each physicians Credentialing and Privileging package.