General Psychiatrist

Job description

PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITY: Under the direction of the Psychiatry Department Chair, the psychiatrist will provide psychiatric care within the MAHEC Center for Psychiatry and Mental Wellness and other assigned locations as needed. The Psychiatrist will also provide supervision for psychiatric residents in the outpatient setting. This position is primarily responsible for providing ongoing psychiatric care and patient evaluations in making determinations of appropriate diagnosis, medical necessity of services, and need for higher level of service to a full caseload of patients with mental illness in an efficient and effective manner. This includes working with a wide array of disorders with patients from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. The psychiatrist will participate in the development of medical policies and procedures as needed and provide cross coverage for other psychiatrists within MAHEC. The position also requires sharing of on-call responsibilities in coordination with psychiatric residents for our outpatient clinic. As a faculty member of MAHEC, this individual may be expected to provide teaching and didactic instruction to MAHEC psychiatry residents and other r...