Job description
**Inpatient Psychiatric opening in Cedar Rapids, IA** - 1.5 hours from Des Moines **Responsibilities:** - Admissions, discharges, daily hospital care of patients, emergency room visits and consultations as requested. - While on-call, Physician shall be available to provide medical services upon referral from other physicians or through assignment of patients presenting in the Emergency Department who have no physician. - Daily hospital care for an assigned census of patients during the regular work week. - Responsible for medical services for all patients in the Behavioral Health Hospitalist Program in a manner agreed upon by the on-call physicians and those participating in the Hospitalist Program. - Daily staffing as determined by the Behavioral Health Hospitalist Program Medical Director. - Adhere to clinical standards as determined by the Behavioral Health Hospitalist Program Medical Director, the psychiatry section, and other appropriate bodies. - Call Coverage; Provide on-call psychiatrist/hospitalist coverage in conjunction with other on-call physicians and physicians participating in the Behavioral Health Hospitalist Program. - While on-call, promptly return all calls and pages and be readily available to report to Hospital to provide evaluation and other medical services required by the patient. - Hospital-based outpatient practice, outpatient practice in support of other community agencies/organizations, and telemedicine services. - Working collaboratively and providing supervision for advanced registered nurse practitioners employed by the Hospital for both inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services. - Fulfilling administrative duties of the Behavioral Health Hospitalist Program/behavioral health service line as requested. **Qualifications:** - M.D. or D.O. - Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry; Board exam must be completed within one year of hire date - Hold a current and unrestricted medical license - Eligible to work in the United States - Hold current and unrestricted state and federal authority to prescribe and administer medications as necessary or appropriate to the field of practice - Ability to work as a team member - Excellent communication, written and verbal, analytical, and problem-solving skills **About the Group:** A non-profit 900-member physician group practice serving 2,000,000 patients from 280 locations in Iowa and Illinois. Clinic has a base of primary care physicians in family practice, internal medicine and pediatrics. In addition, it offers physician services in subspecialty areas including pulmonology/Critical Care, endocrinology/diabetes, infectious disease, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, psychiatry and rheumatology.
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Cedar Rapids, IA
