Assistant Professor WOT | Psychiatrist, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences - UW Medical Center

Assistant Professor WOT | Psychiatrist

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) is seeking candidates for one full-time or part-time faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor without tenure by reason of funding in either the clinician-teacher or faculty-scientist pathway.

Assistant Professors are eligible for multi-year appointments that align with a 12-month service period (July 1-June 30). Faculty with 12-month service periods are paid for 11 months of service over a 12-month period (July-June), meaning the equivalent of one month is available for paid time off. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research/scholarship, and service.

Anticipated Start Date: January 2025

Job Duties

• Provide clinical care as an attending psychiatrist at UW Medical Center (UWMC).
• Take call responsibilities commensurate with other clinically active faculty in the Department.
• Contribute to scholarship related to research and clinical interests and expertise.
• Teach and supervise trainees as appropriate and in conjunction with your clinical and research activities.
• You may have other responsibilities as assigned by the Chair or Service Chief by mutual agreement.

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is an integral component of the UW School of Medicine and shares UW Medicine’s mission to ‘Improve the Health of the Public.’ We accomplish this by providing the best care we can today, conducting research to develop better treatments for tomorrow, and inspiring and training the next generation of health care professionals for the Pacific Northwest. Our core values include openness, transparency, integrity, engagement, collaboration, and mutual respect. Our department is the third largest within the School of Medicine.

As the only academic psychiatry department serving Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho, we are committed to improving access to psychiatric care and consultation throughout the greater Pacific Northwest. Our educational programs include a required medical student clerkship for 260 medical students per year at some 30 sites across the WWAMI region, a nationally competitive psychiatry residency program with more than 90 psychiatry residents in Seattle and in two regional residency tracks in Idaho and Montana, subspecialty fellowships in addiction, child and adolescent, consultation-liaison, perinatal mental health and geriatric psychiatry, a nationally renowned scientist-practitioner psychology internship program, and numerous post-doctoral clinical and research fellowships.

Learn more: https://psychiatry.uw.edu/

Salary

The base salary range for this position will be commensurate with experience and qualifications, or as mandated by a U.S. Department of Labor prevailing wage determination.

The base salary range for an Assistant Professor position will be $16,667 - $20,000 per month ($200,004 - $240,000 annually).

Additional compensation associated with this position may include incentive payments through University of Washington (UWP) practice plan.

An M.D. or D.O. or foreign equivalent, current medical licensure, and eligibility for a Washington State medical license.

In order to be eligible for University sponsorship for an H-1B visa, graduates of foreign (non-U.S.) medical schools must show successful completion of all three steps of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), or equivalent as determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Part-time positions are not eligible for visa sponsorship.