The city of Redding in Shasta County (upper northern California) has a unique geography. Redding is bounded on three sides by state or national parks (Shasta/Trinity, Whiskeytown and Lassen Natl Park). This semi-rural area has multiple wilderness environments nearby ideally suited for many outdoors and wilderness activities including rock climbing at Castle crags, or Mountain climbing at Mt Shasta (14,000 ft peak, the second highest in the cascade mountain chain). White water rafting and/or fly fishing is readily available on several rivers (Sacramento, Pit, Mcloud, and Trinity rivers) and multiple local mountain biking trails. The Redding VA urgent care is a new facility with a very positive reviews from and interactions with the veterans it serves. Our urgent care has the capability to utilized CT/US and MRI in addition to labs for diagnostic purposes. We have a good relationship with many consultative specialties including ENT, Urology, Cardiology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Physical Therapy, and Wound care locally and full scope of specialties via Mather Hospital Sacramento 2 hours south. This position is ideally suited for an Emergency Medicine physician or IM/FM with substantial ED experience. If you are interested in giving back to/serving the veteran community here in far-northern California, we are interested in talking to you.
Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment)
EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive.
Work Schedule: Tour is variable; 4 10-hour shifts per week for full-time
Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restrictions on moonlighting
Additional Requirement:
- Board Certified or Board Eligible in Family Practice or Internal Medicine.
Preferred Experience:
- Possess more than two (2) years of experience in Emergency Medicine.
- Salary Range $230,000-$325,000 Per Year
