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Physician – Hospitalist
Veterans Health Administration · Hines, Illinois · Closes in 9 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Federal employees - Excepted service.
Open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Non-citizens may be hired only if qualified citizens cannot be recruited.
Experience: You must have completed residency training in an accredited core specialty program approved by the VA. Other paths include one year of approved post-medical school training followed by two years of independent practice in the U.S., or, for non-U.S. residency, three years of verified independent practice in the U.S.
Education: You need a Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from a school approved by the VA for the year you finished. Foreign medical graduates must confirm their school meets ECFMG eligibility for the year they graduated.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, or the District of Columbia
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 9 days (November 13, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
The position may be filled before the closing date, and the announcement may close early if it is filled through other means.
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: You will be rated on how well you meet the listed qualifications. Your application, resume, C.V., and other documents will be verified, and errors or missing information may hurt your chances.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Make sure your MD or DO degree, school, and graduation year are clearly listed.
- Show your residency training and board certification status clearly in your resume or C.V.
- Confirm you hold a full and unrestricted license, since a training or limited license will not qualify.
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