Pain Management Anesthesiologist

Job Description

A healthcare practice is seeking a Physician, Pain Management Anesthesiologist, to join their Pain Management & Rehabilitation Services team. The ideal candidate will possess excellent evaluation and management skills, along with training in advanced interventional procedures. This full-time position involves working in a hospital environment, focusing on developing and implementing goal-oriented treatment plans for patients with chronic pain.

Practice Info

• Work Environment: Hospital
• Working in Pain Management & Rehabilitation Services

Responsibilities

• Effectively evaluate patients with chronic pain by developing and implementing goal-oriented treatment plans for complex patients in need of pain management.
• Provide peripheral joint injections and other intramuscular injections, perform advanced spine procedures including cervical, thoracic and lumbar epidurals, facet procedures/RFA, SCS.
• Utilize all risk mitigation strategies when prescribing scheduled pain medications and adjuvant medications.
• Effectively provide diagnostic evaluation, examination, and interdisciplinary treatment planning to meet the pain care needs of Veterans.
• Confidently and professionally collaborate with multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams of therapists, psychologists, social workers, pharmacists, APRNs, other physicians, nurses, etc. to meet a patient's complex rehabilitative needs.
• Collect data, analyze data, implement changes based on analysis results in their specialty area.
• Participate in facility, regional, and national activities as subject-matter expert as needed to support the overall VA mission to provide outstanding comprehensive healthcare.

Compensation

$325,000 – $360,000 yearly.

Shift & Schedule

• Full-Time
• Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm

Requirements

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Degree: Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in medicine or osteopathic medicine obtained from one of the schools approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed.
• License: Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• Residency Training: Completion of residency training, approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification.
• Language Proficiency: Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Preferred Experience: Board Eligible in Physical Medicine and Rehab, or Anesthesiology.
• No visa sponsorship available.