Emergency Room Consultation - Psychiatry - Physician - Manhattan, NY

Emergency Room Consultation Psychiatrist

The Mount Sinai Health System is currently seeking a full-time Emergency Room Consultation Psychiatrist.

The position will be working in the Mount Sinai Health System Emergency room via telemedicine. The position will consist of meeting with patients individually then evaluating the patients' symptoms and treatment course, arranging admission or discharge when appropriate, completing appropriate documentation and working closely with members of the system emergency room teams, including physicians, social workers, and nursing staff.

This position will also work closely with the Clinical Command Center, to help facilitate transfers of psychiatric patients and optimize patient flow within in the health system.

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities will be assigned by the Department Chair, and may be altered in response to changing departmental needs.
• Provide psychiatric consultation to various emergency rooms when requested across the Mt Sinai Health System and follow up as needed on cases previously consulted on.
• Meet with patients in emergency rooms individually over a telehealth platform, perform a psychiatric evaluation and provide disposition planning. Complete documentation required for clinical care and billing in a timely fashion and in keeping with institutional standards. Review findings and plan with requesting physician as and when requested or needed.
• Work closely with the Command and Transfer Center to optimize transfers from within the MSHS and also assists with external agencies requesting a transfer /bed in the MSHS. Determine suitability for transfer and best location based on clinical and logistic factors.
• Adhere to all policies and procedures applying to the telehealth within the MSHS and the policies at large in the Department of Psychiatry

Qualifications

• Board Certified or Board Eligible Psychiatrist
• Possess NYS license to practice medicine
• Qualifications for Assistant Professor or higher level required

Compensation range from 225K to 320K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits).

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