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Decypher is a leading integrator of professional, technology, and management solutions and services. We provide our services globally to Federal, Commercial, Local, and State clients. Our employees are our most valuable asset and play an integral role in the success of Decypher and our clients. Working at Decypher is not a job, but a career where your talent and energy are respected, and you can personally make a difference. Decypher invites you to join our professional team.
Applicants must be located near to potential work sites:
* Sembach, Germany
* Katterbach, Germany
* Vilseck, Germany
* Stuttgart, Germany
* Baumholder, Germany
* Ansbach, Germany
* Alconbury, UK
* Volkel AB, Netherlands
Minimum Qualifications:
Degree: Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from a Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) approved school of medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) from an American Osteopathic Association (AOA) approved school of osteopathic medicine, or a medical or osteopathy school acceptable to the Surgeon General.
Education: Graduate from an accredited neurosurgical residency program. Graduate from an accredited medical school in the United States or Canada. This degree must have been accredited by the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association; Association of American Medical Colleges; Liaison Committee on Medical Education; Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation of the American Osteopathic Association, or an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) at the time the degree was obtained. A Doctor of Medicine or equivalent degree from a foreign medical school must provide education and medical knowledge substantially equivalent to accredited schools in the United States.
Certification: Active unrestricted state medical license.
Internship/Residency: Successful completion of an internship and residency program (corresponding to the specialty required in the TO) which has been approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or the Committee on Postdoctoral Training of the American Osteopathic Association. Subsequent to obtaining a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy degree, a candidate must have had at least 1 year of supervised experience providing direct service in a clinical setting (i.e., a 1-year internship or the first year of a residency program in a hospital or an institution accredited for such training).
Experience: As required to meet clinical competency requirements specified in the Service-specific credentialing instructions. Have a minimum of 12 months of experience in occupational medicine or flight and operational medicine within the past 36 months.
Licensure: Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice medicine as required in the TO.
Required Skills/Abilities
Percutaneous stereotactic/endoscopic approaches to the spine, including but not limited to, excision/discectomy of the lumbar and/or cervical spine; including chemoneucleolysis and placement of hardware.
Introduction of intracatheter or catheter, venous unilateral or bilateral, including but not limited to, the superior or inferior vena cava, right heart or pulmonary artery for critical care management of complex neurosurgical disease process(es).
Introduction/puncture of artery for catheterization or cannulation for sampling, monitoring or infusion for critical care management/monitoring of complex neurosurgical disease process(es).
Puncture of the skull, meninges, and/or brain for injection, drainage, diagnostic monitoring, and aspiration to include but not limited to, subdural taps, ventricular puncture, cervical, lumbar and sacral cisternal areas, to include shunt systems for therapeutic and/or diagnostic reasons.
Twist drill, burr hole or trephine of the cranial vault for diagnosis, implantation, evacuation and/or drainage for tumor, trauma, infection and/or congenital/acquired disorders of the central nervous system.
Craniotomy, craniectomy (supratentorial and/or infratentorial) for tumor, trauma, infection, hemorrhage, decompression and congenital/acquired disorders of the central nervous system and skull, with or without incision and/or removal of brain/skull tissue.
Craniotomy, craniectomy, plastic reconstruction, remodeling with autologous and/or non-autologous materials/implants/grafts of cranium and/or cranial base for craniosynostosis and/or craniofacial dysostosis, including but not limited to named syndromes.
Transsphenoidal and/or transoral approach to the skull base, upper cervical spine, sella turcica, parasellar and suprasellar areas for tumor, trauma, infection, hemorrhage, decompression and/or congenital/acquired disorders.
Surgery of cerebral/spinal aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation and/or angioma, with or without intraoperative angiography, with or without intraoperative embolization, with or without intracranial-extracranial arterial anastomosis.
Stereotaxic/endoscopic biopsy, excision, drainage, puncture, injection (supratentorial and/or infratentorial) for tumor, trauma, pain, movement disorder, infection, hematoma, hemorrhage, and/or congenital/acquired disorders, with and without CT/MRI assistance/guidance, with or without creation of neurolytic lesion.
Repair and/or debridement of skull fracture with or without dural/brain injury; encephalocele without cranioplasty; post-traumatic and/or postoperative cranial defects with autologous and/or non-autologous material/implants/grafts, to include scalp avulsions/defects by full thickness, split thickness, rotation and/or pedicle grafts.
Therapeutic injection of medications, pharmaceutical agents and/or drugs: subcutaneous (SC), intramuscular (IM), intravenous (IV), intraventricular, epidural or subarachnoid space.
Injection for myelography and/or discogram; trigger point therapy and/or facet injection of steroids and/or local anesthetic agents.
Incision, drainage, puncture, aspiration of hematoma, abscess, cyst or infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissues, including removal of foreign body.
Biopsy, debridement and excision with closure of the scalp, skin, subcutaneous tissue and muscle to include care of decubitus ulcers.
Repair, simple or complex, with/without cutaneous transfer and/or pedicle flaps of the scalp and paraspinal cutaneous tissue.
Application of cranial tongs, stereotactic frame and Halo device, to include management and application of external orthosis of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine.
Management/treatment of closed skull fracture, diffuse brain injury, cerebral contusion, cerebral concussion without operation.
Management/treatment of closed spinal fractures with/without neurologic impairment without operation.
Anterior approach (partial/complete) resection of vertebral component of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar and/or sacral spine, single and/or multiple levels, intradural or extradural, for trauma, tumor, pain, infection and/or congenital/acquired disorders including costotransversectomy and/or corpectomy with reconstruction by autologous or non-autologous material/implants/grafts.
Arthrodesis, anterior or anterolateral approach, single or multiple levels, cervical, thoracic, lumbar and/or sacral spine for intervertebral disc excision with reconstruction by autologous and/or non-autologous material/implants/grafts.
Arthrodesis, posterior and/or posterior-lateral approach, single and/or multiple levels, cervical, thoracic, lumbar and/or sacral spine for trauma, tumor, pain, infection and/or congenital/acquired disorders with autologous and/or non-autologous material/implants/grafts.
Posterior approach intradural and/or extradural laminotomy/laminectomy, single and/or multiple levels, for exploration/decompression of spinal neural elements for tumor, trauma, pain, infection and/or congenital/acquired disorders; including excision of herniated intervertebral disc of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar and/or sacral spine.
Spinal instrumentation, anterior and/or posterior, single and/or multiple levels, for arthrodesis (including redo-procedure) for spinal deformity as a consequence of tumor, trauma, infection and/or congenital/acquired disorders including herniated intervertebral disc of the cervical, thoracic and/or lumbar spine with reconstruction by autologous and/or non-autologous material/grafts.
Cerebrospinal fluid diversion, primary and/or revision to venous, pleural, peritoneal or other terminus.
Puncture for injection, drainage, aspiration, rhizotomy: the spinal cord, spinal subarachnoid space, intracranial cisterns for tumor, trauma, pain, infection, hematoma, hemorrhage and congenital/acquired disorders, including but not limited to chemotherapeutic, neurolytic, anesthetic and/or contrast agents.
Introduction and/or injection of anesthetic, diagnostic or therapeutic agents and/or rhizotomy to somatic, autonomic, cranial and/or peripheral nerves.
Exploration, neurolysis, neuroplasty (intraneural and/or extraneural), with or without decompression of somatic, autonomic, cranial and peripheral nerves; with and without transaction, transposition, or excision; with and/or without neurorrhaphy, with or without autologous and/or non-autologous nerve graft.
Placement of neurostimulating and monitoring electrodes/probes into or adjacent to the brain, spinal cord, or peripheral nerves for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, with or without simultaneous placement of permanent stimulator/pump into soft tissue.
This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. Therefore, the employee may be requested to perform other reasonable duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor or other management as required.
This position is not authorized for remote/telework.
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