Physician-Primary Care Beautiful Wilkes-Barre, PA

Updated 10/21/26
$220,000 – $275,000 yearly
18711, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
Physician
Family Practice-Geriatrics
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Job at a glance

Degree Required MD/DO
Position Type Full-Time
Work Environment Hospital
Visa Sponsorship No

Job description

Job description

Duties:

  • Provide clinical examination, diagnosis, and treatment of acute and chronic diseases, preventive care, and coordination of care for a panel of primary care patients. Appropriate documentation of patient care in clinical records is expected.
  • The physician leads the team in assisting the patient advocate and administration in resolving patient concerns and inquiries.
  • The Primary Care Physician is assigned responsibility for a panel of patients at a specific location.
  • The physician should have competence in effective teaching, monitoring and coordinating educational activities, including planning, evaluating and documenting.
  • The physician may also have administrative responsibilities, including program planning, committee involvement, and other augmenting duties for the medical center, and making administrative decisions that affect primary care programs.
  • The physician must have excellent communication skills

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.Degree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed.Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.Residency Training: Physicians must have completed residency training, approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification. (NOTE: VA physicians involved in academic training programs may be required to be board certified for faculty status.) Approved residencies are:
(1) Those approved by the accrediting bodies for graduate medical education, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or American Osteopathic Association (AOA), in the list published for the year the residency, or fellowship if applicable, was completed; OR
(2) One year of post medical school training (internship, first year of residency, or transitional year residency) approved by ACGME or AOA followed by two years of post-training independent practice (performing under a full and unrestricted license) in the United States; OR
(3) Non-US residency training programs followed by a minimum of three years of verified independent practice in the United States (performing under a full and unrestricted license) performing duties related to the position they are applying for (United States fellowships would be creditable towards this requirement), which the local Medical Staff Executive Committee deems to have provided the applicant with appropriate professional training and believes has exposed the Physician to an appropriate range of patient care experiences.

Working Hours

Work Schedule: Full-Time Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Veterans Health Administration

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