Military / VA Psychiatry: General Job in Battle Creek, Michigan
This general psychiatry position in Battle Creek, Michigan is offered as a Military/VA opportunity — federal employment serving active-duty service members, veterans, and their families. Positions of this kind follow federal compensation schedules and benefits, include malpractice coverage under federal protection, and are structured for schedule predictability, with the administrative and billing responsibilities of private practice set aside in favor of direct clinical care for a mission-driven patient population.
This permanent role is available under either straight employment or contract, with the financial offering currently listed as open. Patient call follows a 1:6 or better rotation, and there is no emergency department call associated with this position.
- Board Certified and Board Eligible candidates considered
- Open to MD and DO training backgrounds, including both American and foreign medical graduates
- Requires U.S. citizenship
- Open to recently trained through very experienced physicians
- Position Type: Permanent
- Recruited Specialty: Psychiatry: General
- Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: No
- Structure of Position: Military/VA
- Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
- Expected Patient Call Coverage: 1:6 or better
- Expected ER Call Coverage: No call
MD/DO - Psychiatrist
Responsibilities (duties include, but are not limited to)
Physician care shall cover the
range of Psychiatry services as would be provided in a state-of-the-art
civilian medical treatment facility and the standard of care shall be of a
quality, meeting or exceeding currently recognized TJC, VA and national
standards.
- Physical Assessments.
- Psychiatric Evaluations and Mental Status Exams
- Psychotherapy
- Pharmacotherapy
- Consultation
- Clinical Supervision
- General Medical Condition Care
- Group Psychotherapy
- Behavior Therapy
- Family Therapy
- Treatment Team meetings
- Discharge Planning
- Referring patients to specialty care
- Histories and physicals, order prescriptions, labs, x-rays, and other pertinent tests,
- Complete documentation requirements in a timely manner as per policy.
- Completion of consults on other inpatient locations at the facility, and occasionally evaluates outpatients for medication.
Qualifications
- Physician must have a current license to practice medicine in any State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia. All licenses held must be full and unrestricted licenses.
- Physician must be board certified or board eligible in psychiatry.
- Physician must be certified in Basic Life Support (BLS) as approved by the American Heart Association (AHA).
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- Structure of Financial Support: Straight Employment, Contract
- Financial Offering: Open
- Compensation Range: $212,530 - $392,169 per year
- Relocation Allowance: Negotiable
- Signing Bonus: Negotiable
- Stipends: Negotiable
- Student Loan Assistance: Negotiable
- Practice State: Michigan
- Practice City: Battle Creek
- Community Size: 25,000 - 49,999, 50,000 - 99,999, 100,000 - 499,999, 500,000+
- Community Details: Registered Candidates Only
- Location of Medical Training: American Medical Graduate (AMG), Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG)
- Medical Training Type: Allopathic (MD), Osteopathic (DO)
- Board Certification: Board Certified, Board Eligible
- Work Status Requirements: US Citizen
- Preferred Experience Level: Recently Trained, Experienced, Very Experienced
- Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes
- Agency: KurzSolutions
