Hospital / Clinic Employed Psychiatry: General Job in Sturgis, South Dakota
This General Psychiatry position in Sturgis, South Dakota is offered as a hospital/clinic-employed role, one of several arrangements under which this permanent opening is available — alongside single-specialty group and Military/VA options. As an employed physician, you would work under an employment agreement with the hospital, clinic, or MSO as your recruiting and paying entity, with compensation, benefits, malpractice coverage, and scheduling administered by that employer, and the facility, staff, and referral infrastructure provided for you. This structure is built for physicians who want to focus on clinical care with fewer business and administrative responsibilities.
Compensation here is structured as an employment agreement with production bonus, with the financial offering listed at the national average tier. Relocation assistance, a signing bonus, and loan assistance are included.
- Internal group call rotation of 1:6 or better
- Emergency department call rotation of 1:4
- Serving a community of roughly 10,000–50,000 residents
The role is open to candidates who are Board Certified or Board Eligible, trained in allopathic medicine, and either U.S. citizens or Green Card holders, spanning experience levels from those currently in training through very experienced physicians.
- 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.
- Structure of Financial Support: Employment Agreement with production bonus
- Financial Offering: National Average
- Median Compensation: $316,076 per year
- Relocation Allowance: Yes
- Signing Bonus: Yes
- Stipends: Negotiable
- Student Loan Assistance: Yes
- Practice State: South Dakota
- Practice City: Sturgis
- Community Size: 10,000 - 24,999, 25,000 - 49,999
- Community Details: Registered Candidates Only
- 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
- Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs
