Tucson - Arizona - excellent opportunity for a urologist - Southern Arizona VA Medical Center

Background:

Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System (SAVAHCS) in scenic sunny Tucson, Arizona is currently looking for a urologist.  

Tucson VA Medical Center | VA Southern Arizona Health Care |

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Job Description:

Provides a full range of Urology services for our veterans. However, major duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Performs urological surgical procedures on patients, including related admission, consultation, and work-up, preoperative and postoperative care to correct or treat various conditions, illnesses and injuries.
• Makes preliminary diagnosis; directs, prescribes or provides treatment, arranges for specialized care or patient referral as required.
• Provides comprehensive urologic care including prevention, health maintenance, early diagnosis, treatment and follow-up services to patients.
• Performs procedures in the Urology clinic such as cystoscopy, prostate biopsies.
• Performs robotic and non-robotic Urologic procedures in the operating room.
• Management of patients during their inpatient course, using consultants when appropriate and performs inpatient consultations on patients from other services.
• Conducts outpatient clinics; reviews patients' medications, diet, course of therapy, adherence to management plan and patient observations; modifies management plan as indicated; and instructs and counsels patients as required.
• Serves as a consultant to primary care physicians and accepts referrals and outpatient consultations from other providers.
• Refers patients as appropriate; works closely with allied health professionals; and participates in the Surgical Department Quality Assurance and Peer Review programs.
• Actively participates in the Emergency and On-Call schedule.
• Establish professional working relationships with other clinical service providers within the center and outlying Community Base Outpatient Clinics (CBOCS), providing telephone and e-consultations, consultations as needed and screening consults that are received for appropriateness prior to scheduling.

Work Schedule:  Full-time, Permanent, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30 pm.

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Requirements:

·            Must be a US Citizen

·            Must have a degree in Doctor of Medicine or Osteopathic Medicine

·            Must be board certified in Urology.

·            Completion of residency training

·            Must have an active and unrestricted license in any of the US States

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Community/Facility Profile:

The Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS), located in Tucson, Arizona is a Joint Commission-accredited, level 1a complexity teaching hospital, providing tertiary-level care. The SAVAHCS offers a beautiful 150-acre campus with a full range of medical and mental health services for Veterans, including a 31-bed inpatient psychiatry/substance use acute treatment unit, a 25-bed mental health residential rehabilitation treatment program for substance use disorders (SUD) and PTSD treatment, intensive outpatient programs for SUD and PTSD, homeless programs, and more.

Tucson is a great place to live for families, people who enjoy outdoor activities (hiking, cycling, running, etc.) and those who enjoy a rich culture and an affiliation with a world university. Tucson truly is a city with a friendly, small-town feel.