Fort Jackson, SC

Psychiatrist

 

Qualifications. 

 The contract physician is required to be a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy and hold a current valid license to legally practice the specialty of psychiatry in one of the 50 states in the United States, or the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a U.S. Territory.  The physician shall have completed a psychiatric residency approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Shall have sufficient experience to effectively provide psychiatric medical services for adult patients with a variety of illnesses.

Be competent to treat adults for crisis intervention and ongoing psychotherapy/medical management.  On occasion, when performing on‑call duty or seeing a hospital consult, the contract psychiatrist may be required to treat a child or adolescent for crisis intervention and acute stabilization.

Be able to respond to cardiopulmonary arrests as appropriate, and arrange appropriate backup from the hospital clinical staff.  As a minimum, contract psychiatrists shall have and maintain a current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certificate.

Must possess controlled substances registration certificate from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) IAW the laws of the state in which he/she is licensed.

 

Description.

The contract psychiatrist shall provide psychiatric services including, but not limited to the following:

Attend and participate in meetings during normal duty hours and professional staff conferences and other appropriate professional activities such as, but not limited to the following: Quality Improvement meeting, professional staff meetings, Commander's staff meetings, Department meetings, and others required by applicable regulations, MTF guidance, or as directed by the Chief, Department of Psychiatry or his/her designated representative.

Outpatient Services.  Comprehensive evaluations of Soldiers in Training, Permanent Party Soldiers, family members, and retirees according to the quality assurance guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association, the U.S. Army Medical Command, and Moncrief Army Community Hospital.

History of present illness and past history.  Review patient histories and social work evaluations, interview patients to obtain insight into their problems.

Mental status evaluations, formulations, diagnosis(es) and detailed treatment plans utilizing a biopsychosocial paradigm.  Make referrals for further diagnostic psychologic or medical testing as needed.

Provide individual, group, marital, family, and pharmacologic therapeutic interventions as necessary.

Provide crisis intervention and referral for psychiatric hospitalization.

Provide psychotherapy to include group, individual, behavior modification and drug therapy.

Work as a team member with other psychiatrist(s),  social worker(s), psychologist(s), and behavior science specialist(s) to coordinate evaluations, treatment planning, and referrals.  Determine the need for supplemental data such as psychosocial history, medical history, neurological or other medical procedures or tests, etc.  Establish diagnosis and treatment plans for each patient.

Review patient histories and social work evaluations, interview patients to obtain insight into their problems and determine the need for ongoing treatment.  Prepare inpatient workup to include history and physician treatment plan.

Inpatient Services.  May be required to provide psychiatric services to adult inpatients during on‑call duty or when covering for inpatient psychiatrist.

Diagnose and establish treatment plan for each patient and initiate inpatient workup to include history and physician treatment plan.

Determine the need for follow up outpatient care.

Provide consultations on psychiatric disease to the MTF staff physicians.

Maintain documentation, records and reports in accordance with MTF rules and regulations.  Complete necessary fitness for duty reports in a timely manner.

As appropriate, communicate with patients, patient's families and others to obtain personal and social information pertinent to the development of adjustment difficulty and to ascertain probable impact on the individual, unit, and community.

Provide in-service training to MTF staff during his/her regular scheduled hours.  In-service training is informal training to/by staff members to update treatment procedures.    In-service training is held approximately once a month; preparation is at the discretion of the provider.

 

Hours of Operation.

Qualified physician to render adult psychiatric services on a full‑time basis Monday through Friday excluding Federal Holidays for the Department of Psychiatry at Community Mental Health Services.  Normal duty hours are 0730-1630 hours, including an hour lunch break, which is not paid by the government.  Hours are subject to change as mutually agreed between the contractor and the government.