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Position Description:

Title: Project Medical Director
Location: Iraq

Job summary:

Act as ground control and Medical Director for the Medevac program. Provides care as needed to contractor employees and supervises medics in the SAR and Medevac programs.

Principle Accountabilities:

  • Provides medical direction as a flight medic ground control during aero medical evacuations
  • Provides Health care services
  • Examines patients, performs physical exams, and compiles medical data, including health history
  • Performs therapeutic procedures, such as injections, immunizations, management of infection, EKG’s, etc.
  • Renders direct patient care, including assessing, diagnosing, planning, prescribing pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of health problems, health promotion, occupational care and preventative care.
  • Applies scientific knowledge to human treatment responses to actual or potential health problems
  • Documents and maintains patient records of services including proper preparation of required occupational medicine records
  • Participates in employee training and orientation programs for both VMG and Contractor
  • Plans and prepares for aero medical evacuation missions
  • Coordinates with operational mission planners for the safe evacuation of the patients from the originating mission to the destination facility.
  • Provides input and supervision of protocols, scope of practice, standing orders, and formulas.

Reports to:

Country Site Manager, CEO or President of VMG

Internal/External Contacts:

DoS Representatives, DynCorp International Management

Knowledge & Skills:

  • Board Certified in Emergency Medicine or Board Certified in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Occupational and Environmental Medicine with 10 years Emergency Room experience
  • Must have experience with Medevac, Air Ambulance or Ground Control Operations
  • Working within foreign countries that entailed working in a high threat environment is expected.
  • Must be a US licensed physician
  • Extensive experience dealing with lifesaving procedures is required
  • Extensive experience conducting routine and emergency lifesaving treatment in an austere environment is required.
  • Possess a current US Passport or the ability to obtain before assignment

Experience & Education:

  • Must be a graduate of a accredited medical school
  • Must be a graduate of an ABMS residency in Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine or Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Must have 2 years post GME experience
  • Must have 2 years experience in air ambulance control, medevac, or EMS ground control
  • Must have current certification in ACLS, ATLS and PALS
  • Must have knowledge of general Urgent Care and Occupational Medicine procedures.
  • Must have a general knowledge of radiological analysis.
  • Must be able to interpret laboratory data.
  • Ideal candidate will have experience and strong background in TCCC
  • Ideal candidate will have prior deployment history to an austere location under hazardous conditions
  • Ideal candidate will have military or tactical background

Physical Requirements/Working Environment:

  • Must be able to walk or stand on level and/or inclined surfaces up to eight (8) hours per day and sit for up to three (3) hours per day.
  • Must be able to routinely climb / descend stairs.
  • Employee must be able to lift and carry 120 pounds 100 meters.
  • Must be able to routinely grasp or handle objects, use finger dexterity, bend elbows / knees, and reach above / below shoulders.
  • Must be able to read and interpret newspaper and typewritten print.
  • Must be able to communicate by voice and detect sound by ear in English
  • Must be able to distinguish color and judge three-dimensional depths.
  • All employees must receive immunizations appropriate to the theater of operations prior to employment.
  • Must attend and successfully complete weapons qualification, security training, psychological profiling and High Threat - Survival Escape and Evasion training prior to deployment

Work Environment:

  • Employee will be required to work and live in a potentially hostile environment, at remote locations, and under austere conditions.
  • Employee may be required to respond to a wide variety of operational circumstances, under extreme weather conditions, within a hostile environment. The individual may be exposed to extreme noise from aircraft, hostile fire, and other acts of aggression associated with this region. Individuals may be exposed to fumes or airborne particles and work in close proximity to moving mechanical parts, aircraft, and vehicles.

Travel:

  • Must be able to travel to and between remote locations in austere and/or hostile environments




Please send resumes to info@vighter.com.