A Locum Physician Psychiatry provides outpatient psychiatric care primarily for adult and adolescent patients on a flexible schedule, typically working one 5-hour shift per week. The role requires hospital privileges and involves duties such as credentialing, patient treatment, and ongoing coverage with potential extensions. Support services include assistance with credentialing, housing, travel arrangements, malpractice coverage, and weekly pay deposits, allowing physicians to focus on patient care.
CompHealth exists to make the locums process easier. Not only will we search for jobs that fit your interests, we'll be here to handle all the details like credentialing, housing, travel arrangements, and so much more. So, relax and get back to helping patients, and let us do the heavy lifting. Ranges shown should be used as an estimate and are affected by many factors including the critical need of the position, your overall experience and qualifications, and other considerations. Please reach out to your consultant for more information.
locum tenens, psychiatry, outpatient care, adult psychiatry, adolescent psychiatry, hospital privileges, credentialing, malpractice coverage, flexible scheduling, patient care