Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences (Clinician Educator)

About the role

The Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC is seeking board certified (preferred) or board eligible Adolescent/Adult Psychiatrists to care for USC students.

Responsibilities

• Report to and work closely with the Associate Director of Student Psychiatric Services at CMH and Medical Director of PBHS at UPC.
• Provide direct outpatient psychiatric care including collaborative evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders for USC students.
• Facilitate higher level of care referrals and hospitalizations, when needed.
• Support medication treatment with brief supportive therapy and motivational interviewing when indicated, with the provider's role and expertise primarily relating to pharmacological treatment.
• Cover on-call emergencies, as assigned at CMH and PBHS UPC.
• Complete documentation in a timely manner and in compliance with departmental policies (currently within 48 hours).
• Attend weekly multidisciplinary faculty and staff meetings.
• Provide professional consultation to Student Affairs, academic, professional and department advisors, and to staff of other campus departments on mental health issues and emergencies.
• Collaborate and consult with other mental health providers (especially related to high-risk students) and with primary care medical providers who may also provide psychiatric medication management to students.
• Attend and contribute to various CMH, Student Health, PBHS at UPC, Psychiatry Departmental and campus meetings, fostering educational objectives and a consultative collegial environment.
• Participate in yearly merit review and performance evaluations, peer review, quality improvement activities and other unit, departmental, and division teams and committees.
• Provide supervision of psychiatry residents (PGY3s and 4s).
• Attend Psychiatry Department Grand Rounds and Department Matters meetings.

Requirements

• Must be a State of California Licensed Physician and a board certified (preferred) or board eligible psychiatrist.
• Experience in short term treatment, including stabilization and crisis intervention.
• Multicultural competency in working with students of color, students from all economic classes, first generation students, LGBTQ students, and international students.
• Resilient, self-aware, and able to thrive in a fast paced, demanding environment.

Qualifications

• Experienced in working with university students, LGBTQIA populations, and international students.
• Experience working with issues encountered in early and emerging adulthood, including identity issues (e.g., sexual identity, gender identity, racial/ethnic identity, etc.), sexual trauma, eating disorders, and substance use disorders.
• An advanced practice clinician possessing well-developed clinical and psychopharmacological skills and the willingness to support the development of evidence-based clinical guidelines for student-patients.
• Experience in or willing to be trained in neuromodulation modalities such as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Intranasal Ketamine and other treatment modalities.
• Effective in working in a highly diverse and multicultural student population and LGBTQ affirmative environment; experience and commitment to working with minoritized individuals.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards of professional practice and to professional integrity.
• Desire to continue to grow as a professional and committed to excellence and lifelong learning.

Skills

• Reflective of our diverse student population.
• Strong clinical skills.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, collegial, professional environment.

Benefits

• A generous benefits package includes: health, dental and vision coverage; significant retirement benefits; child care; tuition assistance; paid professional days; access to free continuing education credits through our Grand Rounds lecture series; generous paid time off and parental leave; life insurance; malpractice coverage; long-term disability coverage; pet insurance; and more, as revised from time to time.

Pay

Salary is competitive, and contingent on experience.

Schedule

Schedules reflect a hybrid of telemedicine and in-person clinic. THIS IS NOT A REMOTE POSITION.