Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC), is seeking a Faculty physician specializing in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry for our new Psychiatry Residency program.

Join our welcoming, diverse and compassionate Graduate Medical Education team. Our YRMC team is innovative, caring and focused on quality patient care. We continually work to raise the bar with new quality initiatives and improved patient outcomes.

As the only full-service acute care, 406-bed hospital between Phoenix and San Diego, Yuma Regional Medical Center offers you a rare opportunity to find a rewarding career while enjoying a great quality of life in a friendly, growing community. By working in an area such as ours, you get to experience unique and interesting pathology and complexity, that most providers only learn about in a text book. Yuma is a place where you can practice high-quality care in a compassionate, supportive and team-oriented work environment.

Are you a dynamic physician with a passion for teaching? If so, learn more about why this is the right opportunity for you. Take the next step in your career and join us in creating our psychiatry residency program.

About the Position:

• Combination of precepting, admin time and patient care (carry your own panel of patients) with shared/dedicated inpatient time.
• Full-time, hospital employed.
• Ideal start date, summer to late 2023.

Requirements:

• 3 years’ experience in child and adolescent psychiatry is preferred; however new grads are eligible to apply.
• Residency program leadership or faculty experience is preferred, but not required.
• Must be American Board Certified or board eligible.

About Our Psychiatry Residency Program

• New psychiatry residency for an established Graduate Medical Education program (est. 2013).
• Initial 4 residents to start the program July 1, 2024.
• Will add 8 residents over 2 years.

About Graduate Medical Education & YRMC

• YRMC’s Family Medicine Residency program established on July 1, 2013. That young program of 4 initial residents has grown rapidly, to achieve 24 residents in 2022 and with plans to expand to 36 family medicine residents.
• In 2019, YRMC embarked on a Sports Medicine Fellowship program and we recently graduated our second fellow in June 2022.
• The addition of the Psychiatry Residency will continue to develop and expand the graduate medical education presence at our hospital and in the community and surrounding area.
• Affiliation and academic support from The University of Arizona College of Medicine and Mayo Clinic Scottsdale.
• YRMC is a fully engaged clinical partner in the Mayo Clinic Care Network.
• This hospital utilizes Epic EHR and offers a full spectrum of care from inpatient hospitalist services to a vast array of outpatient clinics in various specialties.
• A new YRMC Health Campus with its own freestanding emergency department, primary care and multi-specialty clinic to open July 2023 in the Foothills area.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, vision insurance.
• Other employer paid benefits include life insurance, short-term disability insurance, long-term disability insurance and identity guard protection.
• Malpractice insurance with Tail.
• 35 Days Paid Time Off
• 6 Days Paid Holiday Time (based on an 8-hour day)
• Annual CME reimbursement up to $5,000
• Annual reimbursement for professional fees, licensure & DEA up to $2,500.
• Lifestyle Spending Account of $800 per year (massage therapy, acupuncture, gym membership, workout clothes/shoes and so much more)
• 401K with employer match up to 4%
• Generous relocation stipend of $15, 000
• Employee discount program
• Wellness program

Compensation:

• Strong salaried financial package (commensurate with experience).
• Faculty stipend.
• Annual quality incentive compensation, 5% of base salary.

We encourage applications from enthusiastic psychiatry physicians who have a passion for teaching, along with an interest in working with diverse patient populations, and developing unique community health and border medicine teaching experiences.

YRMC is nationally known for its leading edge technology, excellent patient-family centered care and high employee satisfaction. We're proud of the caring culture we've created for our employees. We hold ourselves accountable to our community and because of that we create and share a special report each year that summarizes the work we have done to continually enhance our quality of care.

Why Choose YRMC?

• Our hospital leads the way in INNOVATION and QUALITY.
• Team-oriented and collaborative work environment.
• Supportive leadership with dedicated divisional Executive Medical Directors (primary care, specialty care and surgical care).
• We are all about teaching and education.
• A great work/life balance.
• A collegial medical staff comprised of more than 450 physicians and advanced practice professionals.
• We continue to grow and expand with numerous outpatient clinics, a new Foothills Health Campus, inpatient Behavioral Health and Endoscopy Center.

Why Choose Yuma?

• We are a warm, friendly, and down-to-earth community.
• One of the Top 10 places to live (cost of living).
• Sunniest place on earth!
• Winter vegetable capital of the world.
• Abundant outdoor activities all year long.
• Perfect location in between San Diego, CA & Phoenix, AZ (under 3-hours away in either direction).
• Military community - MCAS (Marine Core Air Station) & YPG (Yuma Proving Ground - Army).

Contact me today and take the first step in joining our amazing team!