Physiatrist (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation)

Quick Facts

• Role: Physiatrist (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation)

• Focus: Inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation medicine care

• Work schedule: Mon–Fri, 7:30am–4:00pm

Description

The PM&R physician will deliver and coordinate rehabilitation care across a broad patient population (e.g., amputation, spinal cord injury, neurologic disease, and musculoskeletal disease). The role integrates PM&R core values into the rehabilitation process and ensures PM&R clinics and consults run efficiently with timely documentation and patient education. Responsibilities also include education/mentoring and service-level administrative and performance improvement activities.

Responsibilities

• Apply PM&R theories, principles, and methodologies across diverse populations

• Collaborate to ensure care is medically necessary and meets accepted standards of care

• Explain therapy procedures, discuss treatment plans, and motivate adherence to regimens and post-discharge activities

• Provide clinical instruction and supervision to medical students, residents, and fellows as appropriate

• Ensure efficient operation of PM&R outpatient clinics and timely, courteous services

• Review, receive, and manage inpatient and outpatient rehabilitative consults per policy

• Complete documentation timely per hospital policy

• Arrange and communicate clinic coverage needs during provider absences

• Support service excellence: financial management, resource utilization, strategic planning, safety, and treatment outcomes

• Conduct peer reviews as assigned

• Participate in service meetings and relevant committees/academic affiliates as required

• Support performance improvement and preparation for inspections (e.g., EOC, The Joint Commission, OIG)

• Collaborate with other VA services to promote rehabilitation interventions

• Support VA and Service policies and ICARE core values

• Use proactive, innovative continuous process improvement approaches in a high reliability environment (HRO)

• Collaborate on education: daily teaching, feedback, grand rounds/lectures; educate other services on PM&R programs and interventions

Benefits

• Compensation: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, and regular salary increases

• Paid time off: 50–55 days per year (26 days annual leave, 13 days sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays, plus possible 5 days paid absence for CME)

• Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% VA contribution

• Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many can be carried into retirement)

• Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage

• CME: Possible $1,000/year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)

• Incentives: Recruitment/relocation sign-on bonus may be authorized for highly qualified applicants

• EDRP: Education Debt Reduction Program eligibility; application required within four months of appointment; award amount up to $200,000 with an eligibility period of 1–5 years as determined after review

• Contract: No physician employment contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting