Requirements:

• Employed position
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship (board certification within 2 years of completion)
• Area of expertise: the evaluation and management of mental disorders occurring in child and adolescent patients, particularly mood disorders, anxiety disorders, ADHD, trauma and related disorders, and obsessive compulsive and related disorders

Reason for Search: (Program growth)-

• Primary psychiatric treatment location for the largest health system in Oklahoma. Treat patients within a fully comprehensive and integrated health system, which shares one electronic health record for all locations. Have easy access to referrals to physicians of other specialties, through the Warren Clinic, for patients in need of such services.
• Primary care clinics ensures orderly triage/referral of patients from primary care to the Clinic, with the help of aclinical pharmacist acting as a care navigator.
• Frequent opportunities for collaboration and referral of patients to clinical trials, via the co-location of Laureate Clinic and the NIMH-funded Laureate Institute for Brain Research (“LIBR”).
• Weekly collaboration and case discussions between the child/adolescent psychiatry team and the child/adolescent psychotherapy team.

Compensation Package

• Market Rate

Benefits Package:

• Health and Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
• Long Term Disability Insurance
• 403(b) Participation
• Professional Liability Coverage
• Vacation (25 days plus 7 federally recognized holidays)
  • New Year’s Day Good Friday
  • Memorial Day Independence Day
  • Labor Day Thanksgiving Day
  • Christmas Day
• Relocation Assistance
• Recruitment Loan
• CME Allowance of up to $5,000 annually

Candidate Parameters:

• New graduates and experienced candidates
• Osteopathic and allopathic candidates will be considered
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship

Population Served:

• Physician sets own age parameters for practice

Practice Support:

• Administrative Staff
• Advanced Practice Providers: Not required to supervise; additional compensation available if desired
• Support staff for reception, physician schedules, processing refills, taking phone calls; n=15-20

Clinic Details:

• Location: Tulsa, OK
• Hours: 8am-6pm (Flexible), Monday – Friday
• Number of exam rooms: None
• Specialized Child & Adolescent therapy program & psychologists
• Physicians, APPs, licensed therapists and an intensive outpatient program
• 70%-75% Mood/Anxiety disorders
• ADD/ ADHD
• Medication Management, Cognitive Therapy
• 20-30 minute medication checks

Hospital Privileges:

• Admission, discharge, and rounding privileges at Psychiatric Hospital
• Includes 2 adult inpatient units, 1 geriatric inpatient unit, and 1 eating disorders inpatient unit

Schedule:

• Monday- Friday 8:00am-6:00pm
• Schedule ranges from 34-40 hours per week are available

Call:

• Weekends: Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist will only cover the Eating Disorders unit (which is half adolescent females and half young adult females) and do not cover the regular adult or geriatric units.
• Eating Disorders call volume is so low that the Eating Disorder physicians prefer to take it for a full week at a time (1:5).
• Weekend hours are up to physician (notes to be completed by midnight) No weekend admits or discharges on the eating disorders unit
• Eating Disorder call is separate from adult/geriatric call

Expected Volume:

• Physician determines their own initial evaluation and follow-up visit durations.
• 60 minute new evaluations, 30 minute follow – up visits (Typical)
• 15-20 patients per day (expected)

Referral Pattern:

• Schedule filled by the system call center, on behalf of the physician
• Robust referral network ensures that schedules are always full
  • Currently at 10 week wait for new patients

Procedures:

• Long acting injectable therapies

Teaching Opportunity:

• Yes; ability to be involved as volunteer faculty at OU or OSU

Highlights:

• Set on a 47 acre retreat-like campus with series of related buildings
• Share campus with LIBR, an established productive research program institution with many opportunities to collaborate
• Join forces with interdisciplinary teams, including therapists, nurses, and pharmacists
  • 1 Psychiatric Fellowship trained pharmacist onsite; with addition of 1 Psychiatric pharmacy fellow
• Practices can be built to match individual physician’s preferences and clinical interests
• EPIC EMR with integrated healthcare record across SFHS
• Therapists conduct play therapy with 3-4 y/o’s
• Meet weekly to talk about tough cases, collaborate – collegial environment
• 1 private physician joins as well
• 3 child psychologists (2 have been here over 20 years)
• One works with Asperger syndrome
• OU Child Psychiatrist covers inpatient psychiatric consults at Children’s Hospital
• Outpatient Clinic does not accept Medicaid