Interventional Radiology Physician

Veteran’s Health Administration
Orlando, Florida

• Review exam requests for appropriateness.
• Prescribe exam protocols and modify them as needed for specific clinical indications.
• Provide an oversight of technical image quality with feedback to technologists.
• Provide clinical oversight of medication administration, including contrast, preps, and other medications relevant to the Imaging Service.
• Provide oversight and serve as a resource for infection control practices.
• Participate in MRI safety and Radiology Quality Assurance committees.
• Participate in various aspects of quality assurance such as peer review, protocol review, appropriateness criteria, and performance improvement.
• Maintain personal dosimetry.
• Report on safety events.
• Interact with patients to obtain relevant clinical history and physical exam findings within the scope of radiology practice, provide education to patients and support, obtain informed consent, issue disclosures when appropriate, document in CPRS, enter orders in CPRS, and other aspects of physician practice.
• Participate in the coordination of patient care:
  • Contact clinical providers as relevant to ensure effective patient care, and discuss evaluation, management, follow-up, and other aspects of coordinated, patient-centered care.
  • Make timely and definitive notification of time-sensitive results and/or results that have major clinical significance. Inject contrast agents when needed. Integrate resources to provide current, optimal care: consult colleagues, research literature, maintain continuing education, and other sources of current practice.

• Interpret imaging exams including relevant exam comparison and correlation with clinical information in CPRS.
• Generate reports that contain pertinent findings and measurements, a description of normal and abnormal structures, a discussion of differential diagnoses, recommendations, and impressions.
• Utilize abnormal diagnostic codes appropriately and communicate/document verbal notification of results when required.
• Support patient care services with reports timely to the care being delivered with the method of communication appropriate to the level of clinical importance or acuity.
• Consult with providers on various aspects of imaging such as exam selection, review of results, and other support functions.
• Meet VHA-defined benchmarks for physician productivity.
• Participate in clinical conferences such as Tumor Board and others.  
• Ability to read all modalities, no mammo or nucs required.

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO).
• Board Certification by the American Board of Radiology (ABR) in either Abdominal/GU, Breast Imaging, Cardiovascular, General, Musculoskeletal, Neuroradiology Services with a fellowship in either Body imaging, Musculoskeletal (MSK) or Neuroradiology.
• Minimum of three (3) years continuous Board-Certified Diagnostic Radiologist experience required, including the ability to read CT, MRI, Ultrasound, and Diagnostic X-ray Imaging within the last (10) years.