Anesthesiologist

Cetechs is looking for an Anethesiologist to join our team in at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Hampton, VA. 

Qualifications and 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 of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed.
• 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: 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), b) 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.
  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.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Additional Requirement: Board Certification and experience in clinical anesthesiology is required. Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) certifications are required; Internship accredited by ACGME.

Duties & Responsibilities: 

• The Physician Anesthesiologist duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Performing and documenting a preanesthetic assessment and evaluation of the patient, including requesting consultations and diagnostic studies, selecting, obtaining, ordering, or administering preanesthetic medications and fluids, and obtaining informed consent for anesthesia.
• Developing and administering an anesthetic plan, which may include General, Regional, or Local anesthesia and intravenous sedation (monitored anesthesia).
• Selecting, obtaining, or administering the anesthetics, adjuvant drugs, accessory drugs, and fluids necessary to manage the anesthetic, to maintain the patient's physiologic homeostasis, and to correct responses to the anesthetic or surgery.
• Selecting, applying or inserting appropriate noninvasive and invasive monitoring modalities for collecting and interpreting patient physiological data.
• Appropriately managing a patient's airway.
• Managing emergence and recovery from anesthesia by selecting, obtaining, ordering, or administering medications, fluids, or ventilatory support in order to maintain physiologic homeostasis, to provide relief from pain, anesthesia side effects, and to prevent or manage complications.
• Releasing or discharging patients from a post anesthesia care area, and providing post-anesthesia follow-up evaluation and appropriate care.
• Ordering, initiating or modifying pain relief therapy, through the utilization of appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic modalities.
• Responding to cardio-pulmonary emergency situations.
• Consultative care for the critically ill.
• Anesthesiology Service collaborates with other Services to establish guidelines for the safe administration of anesthesia and provides consultation on the monitoring and evaluation of anesthesia care management throughout the organization.
• Interdisciplinary collaboration with appropriate Services through a continuous quality improvement (TQ) program to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of patient care.
• The same quality of anesthetic care should be available for all patients: 24 hour a day, seven days a week o Emergency as well as elective patients o Medical and surgical patients.
• Pre-Anesthesia Evaluation and Preparation
• Expected to be on-call.
• Provide supervision and direction to staff CRNAs for surgical cases and Out-of-OR-Airway Management during regular hours, and after hours including weekends, holidays,.