Anesthesiologist

Quick Facts

• Role: Anesthesiologist

Description

Provide perioperative anesthesia care for adult patients, including preoperative evaluation, intraoperative management, and postoperative recovery. Manage general, regional, and monitored anesthesia, including supervision and medical management during the peri-operative period. Place and utilize invasive monitors and lines, support life functions during high-stress procedures, consult on pain management and critical care, and supervise trainees.

Responsibilities

• Perform history and physical examination to assess and prepare patients for anesthesia

• Provide medical management during the peri-operative period

• Manage post-anesthesia recovery and procedural pain

• Administer general anesthesia, regional anesthesia, and monitored anesthesia

• Supervise pre- and postoperative care

• Place, manage, and use invasive monitors/lines (e.g., arterial lines, central venous catheters, pulmonary artery catheters, epidurals, spinal catheters, drains)

• Manage anesthesia for pacemaker and cardioversion device procedures, deep brain stimulators, and other neuro/muscular stimulator/device procedures

• Provide pain management and critical care medicine consultation

• Perform direct resuscitation for cardiac/respiratory emergencies, including artificial ventilation

• Supervise patients in post-anesthesia care units and critically ill patients in special care units

• Train medical students, student nurse anesthetists, and residents

Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual performance bonus; regular salary increases

• Paid time off: 50–55 days/year (26 annual leave, 13 sick leave, 11 paid federal holidays; plus possible CME absence days)

• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% employer contributions

• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care insurance options

• Malpractice liability protection with tail coverage provided

• CME reimbursement possible ($1,000/year) for eligible full-time board-certified physicians

• No physician employment contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP)

• Student loan repayment eligibility may apply; submit an EDRP application within four months of appointment

• Award amount up to $200,000 and an eligibility period of one to five years are determined after EDRP application review

• Former EDRP participants are ineligible to apply