U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
VA Portland Health Care System is a Complexity Level 1a Facility and provides extensive primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary care in outpatient, inpatient, residential, and community settings. VAPORHCS is a multi-site medical system that includes a major medical facility in Portland, Oregon, outpatient and residential facilities in Vancouver, Washington, and 10 Community Based Outpatient Clinics.
Responsibilities
Provide diagnostic microscopic interpretation of cellular samples from a variety of body sites. It results in direct patient contact to provide interpretive diagnostic results for clinics, with immediate patient treatment and triage implications.
Review health records to correlate patient history with diagnosis.
Be proficient with manual image analysis and diagnostically interpret atypical cells, precursor lesions and primary cervical cancer.
Perform an integral part of determining appropriate patient triage from the specimen obtained by FNA for further diagnostic studies.
Oversee administrative, clerical and technical support activities of other personnel within the department by coordinating workload and administrative duties.
Provide supervisory level quality assurance oversight of peers by re-screening 10% of negative and 100% of all high-risk cases.
Mentor and train technicians, junior cytologists and others in technique, instrumentation and organization of work.
Teach pathology residents and physicians diagnostic cytology criteria through microscopic sessions.
Participate in providing health instruction to physicians, patients and community groups.
Assist the Medical Director and resident physicians with research projects by formulating research hypotheses and study designs.
Ensure compliance with quality assurance/control and proficiency testing programs, safety standards, accreditation requirements and departmental policies.
Create, implement, maintain, and evaluate procedures and policies in Cytology to ensure compliance with accrediting agency standards.
Establish, perform and monitor quality control programs.
Provide consultative cytology services to regional sites.
Maintain professional proficiency (through annual PAP PT and CE programs).
Perform other duties as assigned.
Subjective microscopic evaluations based on agency and hospital policies/regulations, technical references, laboratory manuals, professional organizations, and academic background, training and experience.
Any written guidelines are supplemented by professional judgment on the part of the incumbent to ensure all general regulations are enforced within the laboratory.
Interpretation of the applicability of guidelines in matters of specimen identification, processing, recording, and quality control.
Interpreting, selecting or designing procedures and methods in response to laboratory considerations.
Knowledge of medical and pathologic processes to triage specimen to appropriate ancillary diagnostic tests such as flow cytometry, and immunohistochemistry, based on minimal information and without written guidance.
Incorporating new molecular techniques such as DNA testing for viruses, cytogenetic analysis of tumors, molecular markers of disease into the triage and evaluation of the specimen.
Work Schedule : Monday-Friday 08:30AM-5PM
Telework : Not Available
Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives : Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized
PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO):
Not Authorized
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Responsibilities
Provide diagnostic microscopic interpretation of cellular samples from a variety of body sites. It results in direct patient contact to provide interpretive diagnostic results for clinics, with immediate patient treatment and triage implications.
Review health records to correlate patient history with diagnosis.
Be proficient with manual image analysis and diagnostically interpret atypical cells, precursor lesions and primary cervical cancer.
Perform an integral part of determining appropriate patient triage from the specimen obtained by FNA for further diagnostic studies.
Oversee administrative, clerical and technical support activities of other personnel within the department by coordinating workload and administrative duties.
Provide supervisory level quality assurance oversight of peers by re-screening 10% of negative and 100% of all high-risk cases.
Mentor and train technicians, junior cytologists and others in technique, instrumentation and organization of work.
Teach pathology residents and physicians diagnostic cytology criteria through microscopic sessions.
Participate in providing health instruction to physicians, patients and community groups.
Assist the Medical Director and resident physicians with research projects by formulating research hypotheses and study designs.
Ensure compliance with quality assurance/control and proficiency testing programs, safety standards, accreditation requirements and departmental policies.
Create, implement, maintain, and evaluate procedures and policies in Cytology to ensure compliance with accrediting agency standards.
Establish, perform and monitor quality control programs.
Provide consultative cytology services to regional sites.
Maintain professional proficiency (through annual PAP PT and CE programs).
Perform other duties as assigned.
Subjective microscopic evaluations based on agency and hospital policies/regulations, technical references, laboratory manuals, professional organizations, and academic background, training and experience.
Any written guidelines are supplemented by professional judgment on the part of the incumbent to ensure all general regulations are enforced within the laboratory.
Interpretation of the applicability of guidelines in matters of specimen identification, processing, recording, and quality control.
Interpreting, selecting or designing procedures and methods in response to laboratory considerations.
Knowledge of medical and pathologic processes to triage specimen to appropriate ancillary diagnostic tests such as flow cytometry, and immunohistochemistry, based on minimal information and without written guidance.
Incorporating new molecular techniques such as DNA testing for viruses, cytogenetic analysis of tumors, molecular markers of disease into the triage and evaluation of the specimen.
Work Schedule : Monday-Friday 08:30AM-5PM
Telework : Not Available
Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives : Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized
PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO):
Not Authorized
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