Psychiatrist

Psychiatrist

Psychiatrist Culture, art, great food, and history...all found in the "City by the Bay". The Community – San Francisco, CA San Francisco is a cultural, commercial, and financial center in Northern California. It is the 16th most populous city in the United States, and thefourth most populous in California, with 881,549 residents as of 2019. It covers an area of about 46.89 square miles (121.4 square kilometers), mostly at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include SF, San Fran, The City, and Frisco . San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established the Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, both named for Francis of Assisi. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. San Francisco's status as the West Coast's largest city peaked between 1870 and 1900, when around 25% of California's population resided in the city proper. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, significant immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the "beatnik " and "hippie " countercultures, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. A popular tourist destination, San Francisco is known for its cool summers, fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of architecture, and landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, Fisherman's Wharf, and its Chinatown district. San Francisco is also the headquarters of companies such as Twitter, Square, Airbnb, Levi Strauss & Co., Gap Inc., Salesforce, Dropbox, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Uber, and Lyft. The city, and the surrounding Bay Area, is a global center of the sciences and arts and is home to a number of educational and cultural institutions, such as the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the University of San Francisco (USF), San Francisco State University ( SFSU ), the de Young Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the SFJAZZ Center, and the California Academy of Sciences.

The Facility – San Francisco VA Medical Center The San Francisco VA Health Care System provides health services to Veterans through the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) and six community-based outpatient clinics in Santa Rosa, Eureka, Ukiah, Clearlake, San Bruno and downtown San Francisco. They have a long history of conducting cutting-edge research, establishing innovative medical programs, and providing compassionate care to Veterans. The Medical Center is a 1a complexity level facility with 112 operating beds and a 120-bed Community Living Center. Primary, mental health and specialty care is provided at its outpatient clinics. The Medical Center has been affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), School of Medicine for nearly 60 years. All physicians are jointly recruited by SFVAMC and UCSF School of Medicine. SFVAMC has several National Centers of Excellence in the areas of: epilepsy treatment, cardiac surgery, post-traumatic stress disorder, HIV and renal dialysis. The Medical Center has many other nationally recognized programs including: the Parkinson's Disease Research, Education, and Clinical Center; the Hepatitis C Resource Center; the Mental Illness Research and Education Clinical Center; and the Western Pacemaker and AICD Surveillance Program. The Medical Center is designated as one of only seven VA Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education. It also has a Community Resource and Referral Center that is designed to serve Veterans who are homeless and at-risk of homelessness with one-stop access to community-based services. The Medical Center is the first VA to perform MRI-guided deep brain stimulation surgery and is one of only a few VA Medical Centers performing state-of-the-art transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedures. SFVAMC also has the largest funded research program in the Veterans Health Administration with $81 million in research expenditures in FY 2019. The Medical Center is one of the few in the world equipped for studies using both whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy, and is the site of VA's National Center for the Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases. Additionally, the San Francisco VA Medical Center has established a unique partnership with the Department of Defense (DoD) to study the basic neuroscience and neuroimaging of combat-related brain and spinal cord injuries, PTSD, fracture/ polytrauma, and other neurological combat-related injuries and predictors of injuries of war fighters. This program is considered a national resource by the DoD.

Duties and Responsibilities Physician shall provide ongoing psychiatric care services in San Francisco VA Health Care System Mental Health outpatient clinics. Chronic medical problems commonly seen in the veteran population are dealt with. Patients often present with complex needs and disorders such as diabetes, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, degenerative arthritis, depression, congestive heart failure, angina and pain in addition to mental health conditions. Judicious use of laboratory and x-ray services as well as appropriate referral and consultation is obtained. Physician productivity is expected to be comparable to that of other primary care physicians assigned to the mental health primary care clinic and authorized the same scope of practice. Physician shall:

• Provide psychiatric evaluations and consultations, medication evaluations and treatment either in person or via VTEL/Telehealth.
• Provide knowledge, skills and professional capabilities in psychiatric care services in the outpatient clinic setting.
• Diagnose and advise veterans of mental health problems that may be discovered during an examination.
• Obtain a pertinent medical history and conduct a psychiatric examination of each veteran.
• Interpret pathology, psychiatric and radiological related material as appropriate.
• Act as collaborative physician with Client and NPs as requested by authorized staff.
• At the request of authorized personnel, respond to emergencies in the clinic.
• Provide and document medical advice to patients by telephone as appropriate and in accordance with the San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS) protocol.

Community Based Outpatient Clinic locations: Santa Rosa Ukiah Eureka Clearlake

Qualifications/Requirements Must be licensed in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia. Must be Board Certified or Board Eligible by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). Must also be eligible for or will have ABPN Certificate of Added/Qualifications in Addiction Psychiatry and/or Certification by the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Contractor Personnel shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the requirements stated herein including the ability to understand, speak, read and write the English language. Additional Details

• Location - Outpatient services will be provided onsite at SFVAMC, 4150 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94121, and the hospital's Community Based Outpatient Clinics
• Schedule – Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm, no after-hours call schedule.
• Performance Period - 9/1/2021-8/31/2022 with 4 option years (through 8/31/2026)

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