Adult Psychology

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland.

Work Shift:

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Compensation:

Union Position:

No

Department Details

Summary

Psychology core privileges include the ability to diagnose, provide treatment, and consultation to children, adolescent, and adult patients who suffer from mental, behavioral, or emotional disorders. Outpatient or a mix of inpatient/outpatient. Remote could be an option.

Job Description

Assess patients to determine the nature, causes, and potential effects of personal distress; of personal, social, and work dysfunctions; and the psychological factors associated with physical, behavioral, emotional, nervous, and mental disorders through interviews, behavioral assessments, and the administration and interpretation of tests of intellectual abilities, aptitudes, personal characteristics, and other aspects of human behavior relative to the disturbance. Assess, stabilize, and determine disposition of patients with emergent conditions consistent with medical staff policy regarding emergency and consultative call services. The core privileges in this specialty include the procedures on the following list and such other procedures that are extensions of the same techniques and skills.

Analysis of archival data. Direct observation. Family assessment/therapy. Functional analysis of behavior and behavioral rating scales. Group therapy. Marital or couples therapy. Measures of intelligence and achievement. Milieu measures. Objective and projective personality tests. Psychological assessment. Psychotherapy. Personal enhancement. Physiological measures. Structured and unstructured interviews. Tests of cognitive impairment and higher cortical functioning.

Qualifications

Psy.D. or Ph.D. degree.

Experience can be demonstrated in one of the following ways and should be reflective of the privileges being requested:
An applicant who has just completed a residency provides his/her resident log.
OR
An applicant who is not applying directly out of a residency shall provide a quality profile from hospital(s) where he/she currently has privileges showing his/her clinical activity for the last 12 months, including numbers of procedures performed morbidity, mortality, infection rates, and other complications. The applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement of inpatient, outpatient or consultative services in child or adolescent psychiatry to at least 30 patients in the last 12 months.
OR
If a quality profile is not available from the hospital(s) where the applicant currently has privileges, documentation of the applicant’s clinic activity for the last 12 months is required. The applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in the care of 30 child or adolescent patients in clinical practice in the last 12 months.

More education and experience may be required the more advanced the practice becomes.

Successful completion of a hospital affiliated Psychiatry residency program with two additional years of residency training in child and adolescent pychiartry accredited by the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada. Training at residency and programs accredited by organizations other than the above, may be considered via the waiver of eligibility process as defined in the Credentialing Policy.

Certification in the primary area of practice by the appropriate specialty/ subspecialty board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, as applicable. Those applicants who are not board certified at the time of application but who have completed their residency training within the last five years shall be eligible, however must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of their residency training unless the appropriate governing Board waives such requirement. (Refer to each entity’s policy for grandfather exceptions)

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. 

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