Academic Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Attending

Job Summary:

Westchester Medical Center is seeking a board-certified or board-eligible psychiatrist with expertise in Consultation-Liaison (C-L) Psychiatry to join our academic faculty as an Attending Psychiatrist. This individual will provide inpatient psychiatric consultation services to medically ill patients and collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams in a general hospital setting. The position also includes opportunities for teaching, supervision, and scholarly work. The successful candidate will provide inpatient psychiatric consultations and follow up visits to medical/surgical inpatients which include Burn, Geriatrics, High Risk OB/GYN, Transplant, Trauma and Substance Abuse patients. Responsibilities include evaluating and treating patients that have behavioral complications from medical illness, complications from medications, psychiatric disorders that are comorbid with medical conditions and medical complications of different psychiatric disorders. Teaching opportunities include working with medical students, neurology and psychiatry residents and fellows.

Responsibilities:

• Clinical Duties
  • Provide psychiatric consultation and treatment to medically hospitalized patients at Westchester Medical Center
  • Manage acute psychiatric symptoms in medically complex patients across units such as internal medicine, including the Burn Unit and Transplant Service, surgery, including the trauma service, multiple ICUs, and OB-GYN.
  • Collaborate closely with medical and surgical teams to ensure integrated patient care.
  • Provide brief interventions, medication management, and risk assessments.
  • Participate in interdisciplinary rounds and case discussions.
• Academic and Teaching Duties
  • Provide psychiatric consultation and treatment to medically hospitalized patients at Westchester Medical Center
  • Manage acute psychiatric symptoms in medically complex patients across units such as internal medicine, including the Burn Unit and Transplant Service, surgery, including the trauma service, multiple ICUs, and OB-GYN.
  • Collaborate closely with medical and surgical teams to ensure integrated patient care.
  • Provide brief interventions, medication management, and risk assessments.
  • Participate in interdisciplinary rounds and case discussions.
• Administrative and Leadership
  • Provide psychiatric consultation and treatment to medically hospitalized patients at Westchester Medical Center
  • Manage acute psychiatric symptoms in medically complex patients across units such as internal medicine, including the Burn Unit and Transplant Service, surgery, including the trauma service, multiple ICUs, and OB-GYN.
  • Collaborate closely with medical and surgical teams to ensure integrated patient care.
  • Provide brief interventions, medication management, and risk assessments.
  • Participate in interdisciplinary rounds and case discussions.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• M.D. or D.O. with completion of an accredited psychiatry residency.
• Fellowship training in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (preferred).
• Board eligible or board certified in Psychiatry; subspecialty certification in C-L Psychiatry (preferred).
• Licensed or eligible for medical licensure in New York
• Demonstrated commitment to teaching and scholarly activity.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Prior academic faculty experience (preferred)
• Experience with integrated behavioral health models (preferred)
• Track record of scholarly productivity or quality improvement work (preferred)

Other:

WMCHealth is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Advanced Physician Services (APS) is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. This position is eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF).

The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is a 1,700-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians.

From Level I, Level II and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley. For more information about WMCHealth, visit WMCHealth.org.

Westchester Medical Center is the premier provider of advanced medical care in New York’s Hudson Valley region. The flagship of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network, this 895-bed academic hospital located in Valhalla, New York, provides local residents with acute care services - Level I trauma and burn care, organ transplants and advanced neurovascular procedures and more - found nowhere else in the region. Westchester Medical Center is the primary referral facility for other hospitals in the Hudson Valley and serves as a lifeline for more than 3.5 million people. To learn more about Westchester Medical Center and the vital services it provides to residents of the Hudson Valley and beyond, visit WestchesterMedicalCenter.org