Overview
The Veteran Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Memphis, Tennessee is recruiting for a Hematologist-Oncologist to serve as a full-time medical service physician.
The position is accountable to the Section Chief of Hematology-Oncology, for assuring the most effective delivery of state-of-the-art care by meeting or exceeding compliance standards.
It consists of one main campus located at 116 N. Pauline Street; and includes a sixty-bed Spinal Cord Injury Unit, and ten community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC).
It is a tertiary care facility classified as a Clinical Referral Level 1 Facility and one of the most complex medical centers in the VA system.
It is a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology, as well as extensive education and research programs.
Comprehensive primary, secondary, and tertiary health care is provided in areas of medicine, general cardiovascular and neurological surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, neurology, oncology, dentistry, and geriatrics.
Specialized outpatient services are provided through general, specialty, and subspecialty outpatient clinics including a women's health center.
Services are available to more than 206,000 Veterans living in a fifty-three-county tri-state area (Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi).
Job Requirements
Requirements :
- Completion of an accredited Internal Medicine residency program
- Primary Care experience
- Board Eligible / Board Certified
- Full and unrestricted license from ANY state
- U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens
Community Description
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