Pathology Physician

Job Description

Join our Team at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco, CA as a Physician Pathologist (Fee Basis)!

Department of Pathology of the San Francisco VA Medical Center is seeking outstanding candidates for a fee-basis temporary Anatomic Pathologist position.

Candidates must hold U.S. citizenship, have a MD degree, a valid California (or other State) Medical License, and be Board Certified in Anatomic Pathology.

Service responsibilities will be primarily in surgical pathology and cytopathology. The ideal candidate must exhibit excellent character, professionalism, organization, and communication skills. Clinical duties will include sign-out responsibilities in surgical pathology, cytopathology including GYN, Non-GYN, and FNA specimens, frozen section coverage, FNA clinic and rapid on-site assessments, night and weekend call, and presentation at tumor boards and interdepartmental conferences.

Travel expenses associated with relocation or interview are not reimbursed.

Benefits and Features

• Task: Gross supervision and microscopic evaluation and reporting of daily surgical cases, cytology cases, intra operative frozen section consultation, inpatient and outpatient FNA, rapid on-site assessments & daytime call
• Rate: $2,300
• Task: Frozen section and intraoperative consultation-Afterhours evening
• Rate: $150
• Task: Frozen section and intraoperative consultation-Weekend/Holiday
• Rate: $400

Tour: Intermittent Fee Basis

Salary/amount: Rate is per task

We encourage you to consider VA employment in San Francisco, CA. We offer both a mission you can put your heart into and a home for fun, new experiences. Join a team that values a healthy home/work life balance and be rewarded by your role in keeping the promise to those who served.