Academic Faculty Positions available in General, Child & Adolescent, Geriatric, and Forensic Psychiatry at Major Midwestern Medical School - Merritt Hawkins - Peoria, IL

Description

The Department of Psychiatry is conducting a national search for several new faculty positions and a new Program Director. You will discover that these positions are unique and provide a very progressive environment in which to teach, conduct research, and practice clinical medicine in a variety of settings.

Faculty Positions: 

• Flexibility—choose the exact clinical setting to suit your expertise and academic interests
• Sub-specialty interests: General, Child and Adolescent, Geriatrics, and Forensic Psychiatry
• Clinical settings—adult and child inpatient, outpatient, partial hospitalization, student health, and community health
• Teaching - one of the newest and most progressive Psychiatric Residency Training Programs in the U.S.
• Several new and innovative teaching approaches
• Carve out a tailor-made academic position to suit your professional and academic goals for advancement
• 1,000,000 population (60-mile radius) draws a variety and broad-range of interesting pathology
• Directly train gifted residents and play a major role in clinical expertise and future of psychiatric care
• Faculty call is always taken from home

 

Residency Program Director: 

• New Program Director needed to assume one of the newest, most innovative psychiatric training programs in the U.S.
• 4-year training program with 4 residents per year—potential to develop several fellowship programs
• Highly organized training program with future expansion potential 
• Lead an interdisciplinary general psychiatry adult teaching unit composed of residents, medical students, nursing, social workers, and support staff
• Program has integrated a strong DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) training component into the curriculum
• Other duties will be tailored to the interest of the applicant and include opportunities in: adult and adolescent outpatient, partial hospitalization, ECT, TMS, community outreach, college student mental health, consultation liason, and forensic psychiatry
• This teaching program was the first to develop the Innovative “Cap” Inpatient Training Program
• In summary, this is an exciting training program and perfect opportunity for further development throughout Central Illinois

 
Peoria Illinois has a metro-area of 350,000 and over 1 million population within a 60-mile radius. Peoria and the surrounding central Illinois area offer an attractive mix of small town charm and big city offerings. Peoria offers diverse local communities, low cost-of-living, excellent schools, and an array of recreational activities with convenient access (approximately 170 miles) to the larger cities of Chicago and St. Louis.
                                                                

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