Physician - Gynecologist opportunity in beautiful Tucson, Arizona - VA Medical Center!
Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
Application
Details
Posted: 03-Sep-25
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Type: Full Time
Categories:
Physicians/Surgeons
Physicians: Specialty
Surgery: General
Surgery: Surgical Specialties
Sector:
Hospital, Public and Private
Additional Information:
Employer will assist with relocation costs.
Internal Number: 9-3-25
Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System (SAVAHCS) in scenic sunny Tucson, Arizona is currently looking for a gynecologist.
Position Information:
The Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System (SAVAHCS) is recruiting a full-time Staff Gynecologist to join a dynamic team of dedicated providers and ancillary staff. The hired applicant will join a team providing compassionate healthcare to our female veteran population. The selected provider will report directly to the Section Chief of Gynecology, under the Surgical Service Care line.
Gynecology Responsibilities:
Offer patient care for female veterans including prevention, health maintenance, comprehensive contraception, infertility assessment, as well as evaluation and management of uterine bleeding, prolapse, urinary incontinence, and pelvic pain.
Perform gynecologic surgeries, including advanced laparoscopic and operative hysteroscopic cases. Robotics experience is a plus, but not required. Newly renovated OR suites with Olympus towers and a da Vinci Xi system are available on site.
Provide office based gynecologic procedures, including LEEPS and same day insertion of IUDs and Nexplanon subdermal implants.
Educate other providers on women's health needs via electronic, phone, or in person consultation. Didactic presentations to medical staff on women's health are encouraged.
Take low volume home-based call after hours.
The VA Medical Center located at Tucson Arizona is the "Flagship" for the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS), which serves over 170,000 veterans located in eight counties in Southern Arizona and one county in Western New Mexico. This 295-bed hospital provides training, primary care and sub-specialty health care in numerous medical areas for eligible Veterans. It is a state-of-the-art network of health care facilities throughout Southern Arizona comprised of the medical center in Tucson, Arizona and seven Community Based Outpatient Clinics in Casa Grande, Green Valley, Safford, Sierra Vista, Yuma, Northwest, and Southeast Tucson. Through an environment of compassion, education, and research, SAVAHCS is a national model with
opportunity to gain clinical faculty status at the University of Arizona.
It is also a Joint Commission-accredited, level 1a complexity teaching hospital, providing tertiary-level care. The SAVAHCS offers a beautiful 150-acre campus with a full range of medical and mental health services for Veterans, including a 31-bed inpatient psychiatry/substance use acute treatment unit, a 25-bed mental health residential rehabilitation treatment program for substance use disorders (SUD) and PTSD treatment, intensive outpatient programs for SUD and PTSD, homeless programs, and more. The SAVAHCS operates a 24-hour emergency department and is the host site for various regional referral centers of excellence including the Polytrauma Network Site, the Southwest Blind Rehabilitation Center, and the Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program (MHRRTP). The SAVAHCS is the principal teaching affiliate of the University of Arizona Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy. Annually. nearly 1,000 physicians and associated health trainees participate in health care training programs at the SAVAHCS.
Requirements:
US Citizen
Must have an active and unrestricted license in any of the US States
Doctor of Medicine or Osteopathic Medicine
Completion of Residency Training in any of the US States
Board Certified/Eligible in Gynecology by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG)
Work Schedule: Full Time Permanent, compressed work schedule. RDO to be determined by service.
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care at 1,321 health care facilities, including 172 VA Medical Centers and 1,138 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics) to over 9 million Veterans enrolled in the VA health care program. VHA Medical Centers provide a wide range of services including traditional hospital-based services such as surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology and physical therapy. In addition, most of our medical centers offer additional medical and surgical specialty services including audiology & speech pathology, dermatology, dental, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, podiatry, prosthetics, urology, and vision care. Some medical centers also offer advanced services such as organ transplants and plastic surgery.