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Physician – Orthopedic Surgery
Veterans Health Administration · Columbia, South Carolina · Closes in 330 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, Federal employees - Excepted service, The public.
The job is open to the public and to current federal employees in the excepted service. You must be a U.S. citizen, a U.S. national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S., although non-citizens may be appointed if qualified citizens cannot be recruited.
Experience: You must have completed an approved residency training program in an accredited core specialty that leads to eligibility for board certification. Preferred experience includes total hip and knee replacement, operative and non-operative fracture care, call coverage, and clinical work.
Education: You need a Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from a school approved by VA for the year you finished. Foreign medical graduates must show their school met ECFMG eligibility requirements 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 D.C.
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 330 days (September 30, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
The posting may close before its closing date if the position is filled another way. Eligible applications are referred after weekly cut-off dates, starting November 2, 2026.
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 are rated on how well you meet the listed qualifications. Your application, resume and supporting documents will be verified, and errors or omissions may affect your consideration.
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, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Upload a CV or resume, since the 2-page resume rule does not apply to this job.
- If you claim veterans' preference, select it in the questionnaire and upload your DD-214.
- If you cannot apply online, contact the agency and include the CBTB-13099102-27-MES number in the Notes field.
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