Psychiatrist (69445)

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Provides emergency "on-call" services to resolve crisis situations at Variety Care and Northcare as needed.
• Supervises Advanced Practice Providers (APP) and students as requested.
• Prepares initial psychiatric evaluation report on prospective patients.
• Reviews social, medical and personal history of patients, interviews patients and assesses mental status of patients.
• Defines/documented differential diagnoses and lists differential diagnoses with most likely diagnoses included.
• Completes all required documentation in electronic medical records according to deadlines/guidelines set forth by payers and leadership.
• Affords assistance in preventing relapses or morbidity in conditions that tend to recur over time.
• Utilizes appropriate laboratory tests using prescribed methods and techniques; determines normal and abnormal test results; and develops a health care plan based upon analyzed data.
• Formulates decisions concerning admission, prescriptive program and clinical management.
• Maintains monitoring of patient’s progress and ensures that the patient's needs are met by communicating, advising and consulting with residential, educational, medical and other involved staff (outside of team meetings).
• Determines need for and arranges psychiatric hospitalizations.
• Attends scheduled clinical team meetings to review and evaluate patient's prescriptive program planning.
• Communicates with patients and/or agencies, via telephone, correspondence and conferences to discuss patient progress and problems in therapy, drug related matters, aftercare planning, etc.
• Provides consultation to clinical and nursing staff as appropriate to help deal more effectively with the management of assigned patients.
• Supports Variety Care’s pursuit of accreditation as a Patient Centered Medical Home and our commitment to provide care to all Variety patients that is Safe, Effective, Patient Centered, Timely, Efficient, and Equitable.
• Collaborates with all staff to achieve the goals of the “Triple Aim” of healthcare reform—to improve the experience of care, improve health outcomes, and decrease healthcare costs.

Qualifications

• MD with OK state license for practice of medicine and OK Board certification in Psychiatry.
• One year internship.
• Three years of psychiatric residency.