Permanent Psychiatry: General Job in Sturgis, South Dakota

• Position Type: Permanent
• Recruited Specialty: Psychiatry: General
• Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: Yes
• Structure of Position: Single-Specialty Group, Employed by Hospital/Clinic/MSO/Other, Military/VA
• Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
• Expected Patient Call Coverage: 1:6 or better
• Expected ER Call Coverage: 1:4

The psychiatrist will provide outpatient care in the Mental Health Clinic to veterans with a variety of diagnoses. He/she will also work with a multidisciplinary treatment team to provide care to veterans participating in residential programs in the 100 bed Domiciliary. There will also be some consultation/liaison work with the adjacent hospital/nursing home/primary care clinic. On-call coverage for the entire VA Black Hills Health Care System is shared with full-time psychiatrists (6 others) and is generally by phone consultation with the ER/Urgent Care. Weekend rounds on the 10-bed inpatient psychiatric unit are included in the on-call rotation. These rounds may be done via telepsychiatry depending on where the psychiatrist chooses to live.

• Location of Medical Training: American Medical Graduate (AMG), Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG)
• Medical Training Type: Allopathic (MD)
• Board Certification: Board Certified, Board Eligible
• Work Status Requirements: US Citizen, Green Card
• Preferred Experience Level: Currently In Training, Recently Trained, Experienced, Very Experienced
• Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes

• Facility Type: Hospital
• Number of Hospital Beds: 10
• Number of ER Visits Per Year: 1000
• Number of Deliveries Per Year: 0