Assistant or Associate Professor / Outpatient Psychiatrist

Job description

The Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has an outstanding opportunity for a Board Certified/Eligible Adult Outpatient Psychiatrist to join our growing team in the provision of ambulatory psychiatric care and resident supervision. An ideal candidate is a dynamic clinician/educator interested in system-based care approaches, complex cases and care improvement efforts, driven to seek out and integrate current evidence and scholarly findings in their practice and teaching in furtherance of the university’s mission of excellence in education, research, clinical care, outreach and public service. Faculty are eligible and encouraged to fulfill roles in the department's and clinic's strategic care initiatives such as in interventional psychiatry, collaborative care, etc.
The OHSU Adult Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic is located at OHSU’s academic campus in SW Portland and is comprised of a collaborative group of psychiatrists, PMHNPs, physician assistants, psychologists, neuropsychologists and a group of 20-24 psychiatry residents (PGY2-PGY4). The clinic offers access to an expanded array of treatment facilities and methodologies, providing expert consultation, evaluation, and treatment for a wide variety of mental health conditions including: mood and anxiety disorders, OCD, trauma-related disorders, somatic symptom disorders, ADHD and others.
The duties of this position include:
Build and maintain an outpatient continuity clinic (combination of in-person and telehealth visits). Appointment times for intakes and consultations are 60-90 minutes, 30 minutes for medication management and 60-minute slots available for combined psychotherapy and medication management. Providers have the flexibility to follow-up with patients as frequently as appropriate to provide the best quality of care.
Outpatient psychiatric consultations are encouraged at 0.1FTE (2 consults per week).
Clinical education of residents through outpatient supervision will comprise at least 0.1FTE.
Faculty take call 2-4 weeks per year. Call is comprised of in-person coverage of the inpatient C/L psychiatric services on weekend mornings (staffing with residents in-person) followed by after clinic hours call (supporting residents by phone) for the remainder of the week. Our faculty work as a team to cover each other’s messages and urgent clinical issues while away on any leave or paid time off. Faculty are expected to participate in this collegial coverage pool.
Faculty are expected to participate in monthly departmental and clinic meetings and attend weekly, CME-accredited Grand Rounds/M&M presentations. Service on Departmental and University committees and research consultation as appropriate.
• Must be MD/DO and must be BE/BC in Psychiatry.
• Graduate of an ACGME-approved Psychiatry Residency.
• Eligible to obtain unrestricted medical license in the state of Oregon.
• Additional experience with clinical education of trainees preferred.