Physician Jobs in Psychiatry

Psychiatry Jobs

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Salary + Job Growth
The current average salary for a Psychiatrist is around $169,000 per year, which averages out to around $81 per hour. However, it is important to remember that your salary will vary based on your location, skillset, and years of experience. The highest-paying states for Psychiatry jobs (in ascending order) are as follows: Alaska, South Dakota, Maine, Minnesota, and North Dakota. The average salaries in these states range from $213,954, in Alaska, to $228,594, in North Dakota. The expected job growth rate for this field is 7% by the year 2030.

Benefits
Some benefits of working as a Psychiatrist include working in a variety of settings, being in an in-demand field, a flexible schedule, receiving above-average compensation, and meeting a variety of patients throughout your career and building relationships with them.

Skills
As a Psychiatrist, you should possess the following skills: detail-oriented, problem-solving skills, communication, bedside manner, and compassion.

Job Duties
In this field, you will perform duties such as conducting evaluations and providing diagnoses, referring patients for psychological testing, learning patients’ history to properly create a treatment plan, and prescribing medication to help with chemical imbalances.

Work Environment
Psychiatrists may work in private practices, clinics, psychiatric hospitals, university medical centers, courts, prisons, nursing homes, and rehabilitation programs, among others.

Education
While the education requirements to become a physician may be overwhelming, some physicians choose to participate in CME, or continuing medical education. You will find that there are specialty-specific organizations that offer CME resources, but there are also websites dedicated to the cause. Some of the resources you will find are as follows: podcasts, webinars, live or virtual conferences, videos, and live or virtual courses. You can find CME resources using the following organizations: AudioDigest, Psychiatry Online, Psychiatric Times, Mayo Clinic, The CME Institute, CMEList, and the American Medical Association (AMA).

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