Physician-Primary Care (VieraPalm Bay)

The Orlando VA Healthcare System (OVAHCS) is currently seeking outstanding full-time Family Practice or Internal Medicine trained Physicians to join our Primary Care Clinic Team as a Primary Care Provider. This incumbent will be responsible to provide comprehensive medical care under the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) model to a panel of patients managed under PCMM guidelines. The incumbent is expected to be attentive to patient education preventive care and be able to work well in an interdisciplinary team to provide high quality primary care. The incumbent will be responsible for providing comprehensive medical care.

Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Manages chronic conditions evaluates and treats inter-current medical conditions. Determine medical assessment and develop treatment plans according to accepted protocols.
• Collaborates with a Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) to provide accessible comprehensive coordinated continuous care to an assigned panel of patients.
• Must provide comprehensive care for female veterans as a Womens Health PCP including age appropriate cervical and breast cancer screening menopause and contraceptive management and initial evaluation of basic gynecological concerns.
• Performs a variety of disease prevention related activities including sex and age specific screenings mental health screenings and health promotion activities.
• Screens for evaluates and treats uncomplicated common mental health disorders including depression and common addictions with referrals made to mental health providers for further evaluation and treatment as appropriate.
• Provide Buprenorphine treatment in the management of Opioid Use Disorder per DEA guidance.
• Primary care physicians will have responsibility for supervision of or collaboration with primary care mid-level providers.
• Physicians are expected to provide clinical oversight and to participate in peer review of other primary care providers through periodic chart reviews.
• Primary care physicians will act as surrogates for absent primary care providers when needed to include review of CPRS view alerts.
• Primary care physicians will regular attend primary care staff meetings departmental meetings and medical staff meetings.
• Timely documentation (notes and encounter forms) is necessary in all areas in accordance with facility policy.
• All administrative work should be completed in a timely fashion.
• Clinical reminders should be addressed as medically appropriate.
• Quality of care should meet professional standards.
• Utilization of all Virtual Care modalities is an expectation of this position.
• Provide timely follow-up on results including completion of view alerts.
• Prescribe medication according to approved formulary and in accordance with Federal and State Law.
• Consults other specialties as appropriate according to service agreements.
• Demonstrates flexibility in responding to clinic demands adhere to personal and professional obligations and responsibilities practice and maintain ethical standards and sustain a work environment that is harmonious and customer service oriented.
• Cover unassigned/unscheduled patients or clinic when a provider is on leave or when there is a provider vacancy urgent need.
• Assignments may include management of specialty PACT such as Womens health PACT SCI PACT OEF/OIF PACT Homeless or GERI PACT.
• Travel to other sites within the Health Care System to cover provider shortage.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• Subject to background/security investigation.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7 2025 drivers licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
• You may be required to serve a probationary period.
• Complete all application requirements detailed in the Required Documents section of this announcement.

Qualifications

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.

Basic Requirements

• Citizenship: Be a Citizen of the United States. (Noncitizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7407(a))..
• Education: Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from an institution whose accreditation was in place for the year in which the course of study was completed. Approved schools are:
  1. Schools of medicine accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) for the year in which the degree was granted or
  2. Schools of osteopathic medicine approved by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation of the American Osteopathic Association for the year in which the degree was granted.
  3. For foreign medical graduates not covered in (1) or (2) above facility officials must verify with the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) that the applicant has met requirements for certification and must obtain a copy of the ECFMG certificate if claimed by the applicant. If the applicant does not claim an ECFMG certificate facility officials must still confirm that the medical school meets (or met) ECFMG eligibility requirements for the year the candidate graduated.
• Licensure and Registration: Physicians must possess a 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. The physician must maintain current registration in the state of licensure if this is a requirement for continuing active current licensure.
  1. Impaired Licensure. A physician who has or has ever had any license(s) revoked suspended denied restricted limited or issued/placed in a probationary status may be appointed only in accordance with the provisions of this Handbook 5005 part II chapter 3 section B paragraphs 13 and 14.
  2. Waiver of Licensure. Licensure requirements may be waived by the Under Secretary for Health or designee in the VHA Central Office for individuals in research academic or administrative assignments involving no direct patient care responsibilities in accordance with current addition the facility director may waive this licensure requirement if the physician is to serve in a country other than the United States and the physician has licensure in that country. (See this Handbook 5005 part II chapter 3 section B paragraph 14 on waiver of licensure provisions.)
• Residency Training: Physicians must have completed residency training approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification. (NOTE: VA physicians involved in academic training programs may be required to be board certified for faculty status.) Approved residencies are:
  1. Those approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)OR
  2. Those approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) OR
  3. Other residencies (non-US residency training programs followed by a minimum of five years of verified practice in the United States) which the local Medical Staff Executive Committee deems to have provided the applicant with appropriate professional training and believes has exposed the physician to an appropriate range of patient care experiences. NOTE: Residents currently enrolled in ACGME/AOA accredited residency training programs and who would otherwise meet the basic requirements for appointment are eligible to be appointed as Physician Resident Providers (PRPs). PRPs must be fully licensed physicians (i.e. not a training license) and may only be appointed on an intermittent or fee-basis. PRPs are not considered independent practitioners and will not be privileged; rather they are to have a scope of practice that allows them to perform certain restricted duties under supervision. Additionally surgery residents in gap years may also be appointed as PRPs.
• English Language Proficiency: Physicians appointed to direct patient-care positions must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. 7402(d) and 7407(d).

• Experience within the adult primary care outpatient setting within the last 2 years.
• Board Certification in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine is preferred.
• Family Medicine or Internal Medicine residency training.