Neurology Physician

VA Northern California Health Care System (Location : Stockton VA French Camp, CA)

Veteran Affairs Physicians . Because you're in high demand as a VA physician, you start your career in the highest available leave tier, which provides 50 days of paid time off each year. Paid vacation, unlimited accumulated paid sick leave and 11 paid federal holidays accrue right away.

VA Northern California Health Care System is looking for Neurologist trained, and board certified in Sleep Medicine to join our team supporting our Stockton VA Community Based Clinic by providing a combination of tele-medicine and periodic on-site care in Stockton.

The qualified physician will diagnose, treat, and manage patients with sleep disorders including sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, REM behavior disorder, periodic limb movement disorder and others. Incumbent must know how to prescribe initial positive airway pressure (PAP) settings, evaluate and manage all modalities of PAP including making necessary changes to pressure settings, evaluation and management of sleep-related ventilatory disorders. Incumbent must be board certified in sleep medicine and able to independently interpret home and in-lab sleep studies and sleep oximetry. The candidate should be comfortable with providing telemedicine care modalities including video and telephone, across several geographical clinic locations. Travel to the Stockton clinic is periodically required. Responsibilities include inpatient telemedicine consultation, outpatient sleep clinic, sleep study testing procedure interpretation, CPAP prescribing and management, and periodic on-call telemedicine coverage in general neurology. The candidate will work closely with the team of other Neurologists as well as with support staff including nurse practitioners and medical technicians.

Work Schedule : 40 hours / week; this is not a virtual assignment. On-call coverage is via tele-health only during after hours, weekends and on holidays.

Requirements-

• Board certified / eligible in Neurology

Preferred Experience : Preference is given to individuals with experience in VA systems and strong familiarity with general neurology and sleep medicine, including management of PAP and interpretation of home sleep testing and polysomnography studies, preferred to have formal training and board certification in both Neurology and Sleep Medicine

INCENTIVES : Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) offers up to

$200,000 over 5-years, tax-free

and / or Recruitment Incentive with minimum 3-year service obligation. Recruitment / Relocation may be authorized for highly qualified candidates.

Salary $245,000 - $400,000 per year

Work Schedule : Monday-Friday 8 : 00AM-4 : 30PM

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards .

Pay : Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases

Paid Time Off : 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)

Retirement : Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

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

Licensure : 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

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

Malpractice : Free liability protection with tail coverage provided

Contract : No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting