The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is seeking to recruit psychiatrists to our clinical faculty. These are clinician-educator positions (non-tenured) with both outpatient and inpatient opportunities tailored to suit candidates, ideally with a focus on patients in our Psychosis, Consultation/Collaborative Care, Neuropsychiatry and Women’s Mental Health programs. Positions include teaching and supervision of residents and medical students in both inpatient and outpatient settings, as well as shared on-call duties. Opportunities for integrated and collaborative care are available through strong partnerships with UIC OB/GYN, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Pediatrics. Applicants must be a Doctor of Medicine (MD/DO) and have completed an ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) accredited residency in Psychiatry. The applicant must possess or be eligible for an unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Illinois and an unrestricted Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) license, and must be Board-certified or Board-eligible in Psychiatry.
UIC Psychiatry is one of the largest departments in the Midwest, with a strong General Psychiatry Residency Training Program and several fellowships, including Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Addictions, and Women’s Mental Health. We are also one of the top ranked teaching departments at University of Illinois College of Medicine, the largest medical school in the country, with both preclinical and clinical teaching and mentoring opportunities. Our clinical services focus on diverse and vulnerable patients, serving predominantly minority and economically underserved populations on the South and West Sides of Chicago. Our inpatient psychiatry unit includes the only Med-Psych unit in Chicago, as well as the only unit that regularly accommodates pregnant patients. Our inpatient child psychiatry unit serves only youth in the care of DCFS. We are also a nationally known basic and clinical research enterprise, ranked first in Chicago and top 20 by NIH funding, with foci in mood and anxiety disorders, women’s mental health, late life depression, addictions, and mental health services, with multiple opportunities for collaboration and translation of research towards serving our clinical populations.
An important overarching goal at UIC is to attract world-class faculty to enrich the educational experience of our bright and motivated students and trainees and provide high quality care to our diverse and vulnerable patient populations. UIC is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse faculty committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment, and strongly encourages applications from women and minorities, and those with a passion for social justice and serving the underserved.
Please visit our department website at www.psych.uic.edu. Applicants must apply online at http://jobs.uic.edu and reference Job ID 148658 and submit a CV, cover letter and three names of references by October 04. 2021. The application review process will start immediately and will continue until the position is filled. The start date is flexible.
The University of Illinois at Chicago is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer including Disability/Vet.
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The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current and former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment.