UVA Health Anesthesiology opportunity in Culpeper, Virginia

UVA Community Health is growing their Anesthesiology program in Culpeper, Virginia

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The University of Virginia (UVA) Community Health Anesthesiology Department is seeking an American Board of Anesthesiology certified or certification-eligible candidate to join our growing team in beautiful Culpeper, Virginia. Successful candidate will make a significant impact on our expanding program.

The University of Virginia Health System has significant infrastructure and a collaborative atmosphere that will support the candidate's professional pursuits. Provider will work with a highly functional surgical team, engaged executive team invested in providing high-quality care in a community-based setting, and partnership with colleagues with the Department of Anesthesiology at UVA. UVA Community Health is a community-based entity committed to providing extraordinary care to the region with a growing medical group and strong integration with an academic medical center.

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Ideal candidate:

• Call taking anesthesiologist who has experience with labor and delivery as well as basic general surgery and spine cases
• Experience or interest in a rural practice and enjoys living in a smaller town
• Subspecialty training is a bonus, but not required
• Visa candidates welcome to apply

Responsibilities:

• Administer anesthesia and anesthesia-related care
• Perform basic peripheral nerve blocks
• Participates in pre-anesthetic preparation and evaluation
• Medical supervision of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs)
• Formulates a patient-specific plan for anesthesia care
• Implements monitors and adjusts patient s physiologic condition as appropriate for type of anesthesia and specific patients' needs
• Transfers the responsibility for care of the patient to other qualified providers post-operatively to assure continuity of care and patient safety
• Supports operating room procedures
• Participates in additional areas of responsibility
• Assumes responsibility for professional development of self and contributes to and assists with the professional development of others
• Call is taken mostly from home "pager call"

About UVA Health

UVA Health is an integrated health system with a world-class academic medical center that includes a level 1 trauma center, a level IV NICU, the first NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Virginia, and UVA Health Children’s, the #1 pediatric hospital in Virginia. UVA Health also encompasses 3 community hospitals, a specialty rehabilitation hospital, and an integrated network of primary and specialty care clinics throughout Virginia.

Through teaching and research, we continue to advance medicine and innovate excellence while providing high-quality care in communities across the state.

UVA Health consists of:

UVA Health Medical Center
UVA Community Health
UVA School of Medicine
UVA School of Nursing
UVA Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
UVA Community Health Medical Group
University Physicians Group