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Location

Bronx, NY | United States

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Job description

Job Description

Mission:

To evaluate and treat psychiatric patients in the hospital or clinic setting; to supervise the multidisciplinary team treatment of patients on the psychiatry service as applicable; to provide psychiatric consultations to medical and surgical patients and to conduct Emergency Room evaluations, treatment and referrals, as assigned.

Reports To:

Director of Psychiatry


Responsibilities:

1. Diagnostic evaluations of assigned patients.
2. Validation of admission history and physical examination by countersignature.
3. Requisition of appropriate consultations, and overall medical management of assigned inpatients.
4. Supervision of multidisciplinary treatment planning and treatment efforts.
5. Timely writing of complete orders for medication, level of observation, requisitions for laboratory investigations, diet, passes, discharges, and other orders, as required.
6. Timely renewal of orders.
7. Provision of individual psychotherapy, using appropriate techniques, frequency, and duration, as indicated, to assigned patients.
8. Provision of appropriate referrals for outpatient treatment to assigned patients.
9. Complete and timely documentation of care, according to the guidelines of the Departments of Psychiatry and Medical records.
10. Psychiatric evaluation, recommendations for psychiatric treatment or referral and follow-up of assigned medical and surgical patients.
11. Provision of supervision of on-call psychiatrists, as required in rotation.
12. Emergency Room evaluation, treatment and disposition, in rotation, as required.
13. Committee work, as assigned by the Director.

Requirements

1. Education Required

Doctor of Medicine from an ACGME approved medical school; completion of approved internship and residency in Psychiatry, meeting the educational pre-requisites for certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; OR


Doctor of Osteopathy from an AOA approved medical school; completion of approved internship and residency in Psychiatry, meeting the educational pre-requisites for certification by the American College of Neuropsychiatry.

1. License(s) Required

N.Y. State License to practice Medicine and Surgery. Drug Enforcement Agency License.

1. Experience/Skills Required
2. i) Expertise in the differential diagnosis, somatic and psychological treatment of psychiatric disorders.
3. ii) Good clinical judgment, personal integrity, professional responsibility, tact.

iii) Ability to establish and maintain rapport with emotionally disturbed patients.

1. iv) Ability to integrate the efforts of a variety of disciplines, including psychiatry social work, nursing, psychology and activities therapy.
2. v) Must have admitting privileges granted by the Medical Board of St. Barnabas, and maintain these privileges.

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