Assistant/Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Assistant/Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Hiring Department: Department of Psychiatry

Location:  1601 W. Taylor St. Chicago IL  60612

Requisition ID:1018806

Posting Close Date: 6/1/2023

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is seeking an academic psychiatrist for a clinician-educator position as Associate Program Director of the Psychiatry Residency. Academic rank is commensurate with experience. This is a clinician-educator position and will be combined with clinical duties which can be tailored to suit the candidate including clinical programs in Psychosis, Mood/Anxiety, Consultation Liaison, Collaborative Care, Neuropsychiatry, Neuromodulation, Women’s Mental Health, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Candidates with experience in educational leadership and a track record of scholarly activity are especially encouraged to apply. This position requires some overnight (phone) and weekend on-call duties. This is an exceptional academic opportunity for a clinician educator interested in developing their career in education and education administration in an academic medical center.

Qualifications:
The candidate must be a Doctor of Medicine or equivalent, and have completed an ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) or AOA (American Osteopathic Association) accredited residency in psychiatry. The candidate must possess or be eligible for an unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Illinois and an unrestricted Drug Enforcement Administration license and must be Board-certified or Board-eligible in psychiatry.

Application process:
Applicants must apply online at http://jobs.uic.edu and reference Job Requisition #1018806. They should submit a CV, cover letter, and three letters of recommendation by June 01, 2023.  The application review process will start immediately and will continue until the position is filled. The start date is flexible. The University of Illinois Chicago is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. The University of Illinois may conduct background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. Background checks will be performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

About the Department of Psychiatry:
The Department of Psychiatry at UIC is one of the largest Psychiatry departments in the Midwest, with a large General Psychiatry Residency Training Program and multiple subspecialty fellowships, including Addiction Medicine, Addiction Psychiatry, Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Informatics, Global Mental Health, and Women's Mental Health. Our residency is competitive and attracts strong trainees from all regions of the country. We support a research track and an academic clinician-educator track within the residency. Our clinical services focus on diverse and vulnerable patients, serving predominantly minority and economically underserved populations on the South and West Sides of Chicago. We are a nationally renowned enterprise in basic and clinical research, ranked first in Chicago and in the top 20 nationally by NIH funding, with foci in mood and anxiety disorders, women's mental health, late-life depression, addictions, youth trauma, and mental health services. Faculty have 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 to 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. We strongly encourage applications from women and minorities, and those with a passion for social justice and serving the underserved.

About the University of Illinois-Chicago:
UIC is among the nation's preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU/VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago. UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI), and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Through its 16 colleges, UIC produces nationally and internationally recognized multidisciplinary academic programs in concert with civic, corporate, and community partners worldwide, including a full complement of health sciences colleges. By emphasizing cutting-edge and transformational research along with a commitment to the success of all students, UIC embodies the dynamic, vibrant, and engaged urban university. Recent "Best Colleges" rankings published by U.S. News & World Report, found UIC climbed up in its rankings among top public schools in the nation and among all national universities. UIC has nearly 260,000 alumni and is one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago.

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