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Working for the Department of Defense comes with an abundance of benefits and perks to include competitive compensation packages, paid-time off, medical benefits, student loan repayments, and retirement package with Thrift Savings Plan to include matching employer contributions.

Serves as a Physician (Psychiatry) in a Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) responsible for providing examinations, diagnoses, and treatment of diseases affecting mental health including the brain, nervous system, substance abuse of drugs or chemicals, and personality disturbances.

Major Duties

1. Clinical Duties:

Serves as a recognized technical authority in the delivery of Psychiatric medical care to a wide demographic and large variety of psychiatric patient presentations, symptoms, conditions, and complexities. Provides treatment services in any capacity including, but not limited to, inpatient services, consultation liaison services, partial hospitalization, day programs, emergency psychiatric services, tele-psychiatric services, and routine and intensive outpatient services. Makes recommendations on major diagnostics and treatment plans. Develops treatment and rehabilitation plans and provides appropriate therapeutic treatment services that may include medication management, electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, various individual therapy modalities, group therapy, and new treatments as they arise. Monitors treatment effectiveness through evidence-based medicine and alters course of treatment as needed through individualized treatment plans, provides continuing follow-up care for inpatients and outpatients with mental health disorders such as psychosis, organic brain syndrome, substance abuse/addictions, etc. and for complications related to these disorders and provides psychiatric care for walk-in patients presenting with acute illness. Conducts thorough biopsychosocial evaluations of presenting patients, including but not limited to integration of laboratory, radiological, EKG, psychological testing, and clinical findings. Prescribes appropriate pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment.

Provides appropriate referrals to other medical and mental health care providers in and outside of MTF, including network providers, network and hospital contractors, and patient assistance groups outside the agency such as Unit and Family Services, Military One Source, service component community Services, etc. Identifies patient treatment needs and arranges for a safe therapeutic outcome. Collaborates with physicians in other medical specialties on cases involving rare, complicated, and multifaceted cases that require advanced treatments. Provides professional consultation, supervision, and collaborative medical support to other professional staff such as psychologists, advanced practice nurses, social workers, and other healthcare providers within the hospital and across other mental health clinics. Serves as member of local Medical Evaluation Boards for assessment and determination of duty. Determines and provides mental health assessments of fitness and suitability for duty, weapon handling, and deployments of service members based on psychiatric clinical assessment and interpretation and application of various relevant policies and instructions from the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Health Agency (DHA), DoD Service component regulations, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), and local hospital. Provides timely communication to patient’s Command on mental health issues where disclosure is required per Department of Defense Instructions (DODI). 

2. Administrative and Educational Duties:

Participates in hospital approved behavioral health training programs. Conducts training and provides supervision over psychiatric residents, interns, medical students, psychology interns, and other medical and mental health trainees. Ensures that training and supervision provided adhere to the highest Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and other applicable training standards. Assists in developing guidelines for training and evaluating its impact.

Engages in highly specialized scholarly activities which encompass diverse research methods and types. Research activities may involve the development, testing or evaluation of innovative therapies.

Participates in committees and meetings responsible for the evaluation of care provided to patients at the MTF. Identifies opportunities to change the care delivered, advises on difficult or complex cases, and recommends corrective action when problems exist. Participates in Quality Assurance (QA) functions, performance improvement programs, risk management programs, and peer review programs.

Makes recommendations on improvement of work methods and organizational features while serving on committees or working groups that review and establish new treatment guidelines or updates policy for mental health across the service component and DHA. As a professional staff member and technical authority of the MTF, regularly presents research and recommendations at national academic and professional organization conferences, in order to advance the field of psychiatry. Serves as member of the professional medical staff and provides advisory and consultative services on various local and national meetings, committees, conferences, and/or boards. Reviews clinical work including individual cases and trends as well as research and hospital and higher committee work for potential impact (positive or negative) on objectives and goals of the hospital, DHA, BUMED, DoD Service components, and DoD, including potential international impact. Makes recommendations on improvement of work methods and organizational features and assists in establishing policies and guidelines related to mental health care. 

Performs other duties as assigned.

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Basic Requirement for Physician (Psychiatry):

Degree: Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, or equivalent from a 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 at the time the degree was obtained. A Doctor of Medicine or equivalent degree from a foreign medical school must have provided education and medical knowledge equivalent to accredited schools in the United States. Evidence of equivalency to accredited schools in the United States is demonstrated by permanent certification by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, a fifth pathway certificate for Americans who completed premedical education in the United States and graduate education in a foreign country, or successful completion of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination.

Licensure: Applicants must possess a current, active, full, and unrestricted license or registration as a Physician from a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.

Graduate Training: Subsequent to obtaining a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree, a candidate must have had at least one year of supervised experience providing direct service in a clinical setting, i.e., a one-year internship or the first year of a residency program in a hospital or an institution accredited for such training.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:

Residency Training: Applicants must have successfully completed the required accredited residency training in the specialty of the position to be filled (Psychiatry) and equivalent experience and training equal to at least 4 years. Experience may not be substituted for residency training that is required for the specialty identified.

If selected, a salary quote will not be provided to you at the time of the initial job offer. The salary determination process begins after the initial job offer is accepted. This consists of the Activity Compensation Panel adding base pay and market pay to determine your starting salary and this will be provided to you once approved.