Staff Psychiatrist VA Maryland Health Care System

Nationally recognized for its outstanding patient safety and highly developed technology, the VA Maryland Health Care System is proud of its reputation as a leader in veterans' health care, research and education.

The Mental Health Clinical Center at the VA Maryland Health Care System seeks to recruit a fully licensed Psychiatrist with board certification to include fellowship training or experience with treating patients with substance use disorders (SUD).

PSYCHIATRY CORE CLINICAL PRIVILEGES: Psychiatric admission to inpatient unit, including work-up, diagnostic assessment, and provision of treatment; conduct risk and memory (MMSE/MoCA) assessments on patients using psychiatric principles; perform mental status examinations; perform AIMS; diagnose movement disorders; perform MMSE; make psychiatric diagnoses using current DSM and ICD criteria; provide psychiatric consultation to other providers on patients with mental, behavioral, or emotional disorders; manage a full range of psychotropic medication; manage psychiatric issues in geriatric patients; manage patients with addictive disorders; perform supportive psychotherapy; perform eclectic cognitive psychotherapy; perform group psychotherapy; perform family and marital therapy; evaluation, admission, and detoxification of alcohol/opiate dependence.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Admitting patients from the Emergency Department and from other locations as well as handling direct admissions,
• Providing all aspects of care for hospitalized patients in the Medicine Service,
• Discharging patients from acute care to other levels of care within the Medical Center or to home, and/or transferring patients to other units within the hospital,
• Working with Advanced Nurse Practitioners and/or Physician Assistants
• Responsible for inpatient care and follow-up for patients admitted to the Medical Center.
• Responsible for medical consultation to inpatients admitted to other services.
  *This list is not all inclusive.

Preferred Experience and Certifications Reference:

• Fellowship training and/or certification in addiction psychiatry
• 2 years full time experience treating patients dually diagnosed with psychiatric and substance use disorders
• Experience treating patients with buprenorphine
• Experience treating patients with chronic pain syndromes

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program.

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years' vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.

Just off the Chesapeake Bay, about an hour's drive north of Washington, D.C., and two hours south of Philadelphia. Award-winning dining is not hard to find, and cultural offerings include an internationally recognized symphony orchestra and art museums with works ranging from ancient to current-day artists. Baltimore also has a variety of performance venues, including the historic Hippodrome Theater, a former vaudeville palace.

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