Description
The Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine is seeking a clinically engaged psychiatrist to join its Acute Services faculty at Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital. This position offers an opportunity to provide high-quality clinical care in a dynamic academic environment while participating in medical education, scholarly activities, and initiatives to improve the quality and effectiveness of psychiatric care.
The role is designed for a physician with a passion for quality improvement, clinical outcomes measurement, and data-driven approaches to improving psychiatric care. The successful candidate will have opportunities to collaborate with clinical and quality improvement colleagues on projects involving the evaluation of clinical practices, analysis of patient outcomes, and assessment of interventions designed to improve care delivery.
This is a primarily clinical faculty position, with opportunities to pursue academic and quality improvement interests through collaborative work within the Department of Psychiatry and Yale New Haven Health System.
The position carries a faculty appointment at the Assistant Professor level, commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Clinical and Academic Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive psychiatric evaluation and treatment for patients receiving acute inpatient psychiatric care.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including nursing, social work, advanced practice providers, and other clinical colleagues, to deliver evidence-based, patient-centered care.
- Participate in the clinical education and supervision of medical students, psychiatry residents, and other trainees.
- Contribute to departmental quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, with particular opportunities to apply clinical data analysis and outcomes measurement to the evaluation of care processes.
- Collaborate with faculty and clinical teams on scholarly activities, including quality improvement projects, program evaluations, and dissemination of findings.
Academic Environment
Yale-New Haven Hospital is the major teaching and clinical research facility of the Yale University School of Medicine and consistently ranks among the best hospitals in the United States. Yale-New Haven Hospital encompasses the Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital a 118 bed, acute care, psychiatric facility that consists of five main inpatient programs, psychiatric emergency department units, and several specialized step-down intensive outpatient/day hospital programs for adolescents and adults across two hospital campus locations.
Benefits:
Yale University offers Yale Signature Benefits, including but not limited to:
- Medical coverage through Yale Health and Aetna
- Dental coverage through Delta Dental
- Vision coverage options through Eyemed
- Yale University Retirement Account Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability coverage
- Life insurance
- Mortgage loan program
- Commuter benefits
- Yale Homebuyer program
- College tuition benefit plan Yale
- Advantage discount program (Discounts for Activities, Travel, services, shopping, etc.)
Living in/near New Haven
New Haven is recognized as a city of innovation, culture, diversity, and prosperity. It is located between Boston and New York on Long Island Sound, and has outstanding cultural amenities (museums, theater, music, and sports), award-winning restaurants (including several of the nation’s best pizza parlors), boutique shops and national brands, quaint neighborhoods and bustling downtown areas with a variety of living options.
New Haven is accessible by plane, train, and automobile, and is easy to navigate on foot, by bicycle, or bus. A free shuttle service provided by Yale covers many areas in the city.
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Qualifications
- MD or DO degree
- Completion of an accredited psychiatry residency training program.
- Board certification or board eligibility in psychiatry.
- Eligibility for medical licensure in Connecticut.
- Strong clinical skills and commitment to collaborative, multidisciplinary care.
- Demonstrated interest in academic psychiatry and teaching
- Familiarity with quantitative methods, clinical data analysis, or evaluation of healthcare interventions.
Strongly Preferred:
- Interest and experience in quality improvement, patient safety, clinical outcomes research, or healthcare delivery science.
- Experience using clinical data to identify opportunities for improvement and assess the effectiveness of interventions.
- Interest in developing scholarly work related to quality improvement and healthcare delivery.
Prior formal training in quality improvement or advanced statistical methods is welcome but not required.
Application Instructions
To apply to this position please use the following link: apply.interfolio.com/191180
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the positions are filled. If you have questions about any of these job opportunities, please email Hun Millard at hun.millard@yale.edu for more information.
Application Process
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Compensation & Benefits Information
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