Cardiologist - Care for Our Veterans in Toms River NJ
Job at a glance
Job description
Join VA New Jersey's dedicated team at the Leonard G. "Bud" Lomell VA Clinic in Toms River, NJ, serving our Veteran patients through high-quality, evidence-based care. This role focuses on outpatient clinical services, diagnostic evaluation, and collaboration within a multidisciplinary environment.
Job Responsibilities
• Maintain a professional relationship with clinical service providers within the outpatient center and NJ VAHCS and screen consultative and procedural requests for relevance to care
• Providing care in a cardiology outpatient clinic (new consultations and follow-up care) and answering e-consultation
• Perform and interpret studies such as exercise stress tests, ECHO stress tests, dobutamine echo stress tests, ambulatory ECG monitoring, resting ECG, and resting echocardiogram
• Maintain detailed notes of appointments with patients, including diagnoses, comments, tests, and/or treatments prescribed, and test results
• Prescribe medication to treat heart and/or cardiovascular disease and provide support and advice to Veteran patients receiving long-term care
• Provide supervisory oversight of the clinical care on the ambulatory clinic of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants as appropriate
• Participate in VA performance improvement and quality assurance initiatives, ensuring ongoing compliance
• Participate in and attend CME activities and VA continuing educational activities
Contribute to the supervision and teaching of house staff and other trainees assigned to the unit as appropriate
Qualifications
• Doctor of Medicine or equivalent degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine
• Current, full, and unrestricted license to practice in the United States
• Completion of residency in an accredited core specialty
• Fellowship trained in Cardiology