Pain Management Physician

Quick Facts

• Role: Physician specializing in Pain Management

• Focus: Comprehensive pain assessment, diagnosis, and treatment

• Practice model: integrative, interdisciplinary Pain Medicine

Description

You will provide examination, diagnosis, and treatment for patients referred for comprehensive pain management. You will lead and help develop an integrative, interdisciplinary Pain Medicine practice model and provide consultation, teaching, and mentorship to other healthcare providers. You will determine patient qualifications for applicable treatments and referrals.

Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive and problem-focused histories and rigorous physical examinations

• Examine, diagnose, and treat referred patients for comprehensive pain management

• Provide initiative and leadership for an integrative, interdisciplinary Pain Medicine practice model

• Oversee, teach, lecture, mentor, and consult with other healthcare providers

• Determine individual patient qualifications for treatments and referrals

Requirements

• US citizenship

• MD/DO (or equivalent) from an accredited US/Canada school (or meet foreign equivalency requirements)

• Current, active, full, unrestricted physician license/registration

• At least 1 year of supervised direct clinical service (internship or first year residency)

• Accredited Pain Management residency training (GP-14) and equivalent experience totaling at least 4 years

• BLS certification (American Red Cross or American Heart Association)

• Seasonal influenza vaccination consent or approved exemption

• Background investigation suitability/fitness determination and Personnel Security Investigation

• Consent to random drug testing (urinalysis)

• Hepatitis B immunization (and other immunizations as required)

• Credentialing and maintenance of appropriate clinical privileges

• Selective Service pre-employment certification (if applicable)

• Proof of US citizenship

Benefits

Federal physician pay includes base pay plus locality/Local Market Supplement; market pay is reviewed periodically.