Psychiatrist

Location: Primarily Tuskegee, AL (CAVHCS Main Facility). Additional service sites may include Montgomery, Dothan, Fort Rucker, and Monroeville, AL, as well as Columbus, GA.

Work Schedule:

Regular

Hours:

Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM

On-Call

Hours:

Nights (4:30 PM to 7:30 AM), weekends (Friday 4:30 PM to Monday 8:00 AM), and federal holidays (24-hour shifts)

Key Responsibilities

Direct Patient Care: Perform inpatient care duties, including admitting, diagnosing, and developing treatment plans for ward patients.

Clinical Management: Manage timely treatment and facilitate patient discharges or transfers.

Trainee Supervision: Educate and supervise health professions trainees (HPTs) in accordance with VA Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) guidelines.

Inpatient Care:

Operating and collaborating physicians patients

Seeing 1C/1D Psychiatry Service - Ward Patients

Admitting

Diagnosis of patients

Developing Treatment Plans

Managing, including the performance of timely treatment

Discharge/Transfer

Outpatient Care:

Seeing all new patient referrals with accompanying medical records

Evaluation disposition E-consult

Post-discharged follow up

Patient Volume: 6 patients for an hour each or roughly 12 patients for one half-hour each; or any combination of one-hour and one-half hour appointment per day.

Qualifications and Requirements

Education and Certification

Board Status: Must be Board Certified or Board Eligible by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).

Licensure: Must hold a current, full, and unrestricted license to practice medicine in any U.S. State, Territory, Commonwealth, or the District of Columbia.

Life Support: Must maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS)

Compensation details: Yearly Salary

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