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Psychiatry Recruiting Services

LocumTenens.com is a niche agency focusing on Psychiatry including Adult and Child & Surgery. We know psychiatry well. Contact us today and tell us what you’re looking for. Our physician recruiters will get to work finding the right match.

We offer excellent compensation (with direct deposit), paid occurrence malpractice insurance, credentialing and licensing assistance and make all travel and housing arrangements. We have inpatient and outpatient opportunities available nationwide.

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Programs in Psychiatry
There are 181 accredited psychiatry programs. For more statistics, visit the FREIDA Online specialty training statistics for Psychiatry — including residency programs, faculty, resident work hours, and compensation stats. Last year, 1065 residents or fellows completed training in Psychiatry. To see career plans, visit the FREIDA Online graduates' career plans statistics for Psychiatry.

List of programs within a particular specialty for current academic year and those newly accredited programs with future effective dates (Year ending June 30th, 2008): http://www.ama-assn.org/vapp/freida/srch/1,1239,,00.html

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Psychiatrists Make Salary Gains

LocumTenens.com survey data indicate that the average psychiatrist salary increased between 2006 and 2007. In fact, 60 percent of psychiatrists responding to the physician recruitment firm’s 2008 salary survey reported income gains between the preceding two years. Among those respondents, 26 percent reported increases of 10 percent or more.

A quarter of responding psychiatrists said their gross personal incomes remained about the same between 2006 and 2007, while only 15 percent reported income decreases between the two years.

LocumTenens.com Executive Vice President Michael Davis suggests that recent psychiatrist salary gains reflect a growing shortage of psychiatrists, since almost half (45 percent) of U.S. psychiatrists currently are age 55 or older and only 28 percent are age 44 or younger. (Twenty-seven percent are between the ages of 45 and 54, according to the 2008 edition of the American Medical Association’s Physician Characteristics and Distribution in the US.)

LocumTenens.com pegs the average psychiatrist salary at $183,232, roughly an eight-percent increase over the average $169,833 for 2007 respondents. You can find the complete 2008 psychiatrist salary survey results posted in this Psychiatrist Career and Resource Center, as well.

Regardless of compensation concerns, most 2008 psychiatrist respondents (83%) said they would choose medicine as a career again if given the choice.

Sixty-four percent (64%) of responding psychiatrists had been practicing for 10 years or more, 61 percent were male and 97 percent were board certified (67%) or board eligible (39%). While almost half (47 percent) of respondents were employer-based, 20 percent were in private practice and only 16 percent reported working on a locum tenens, or contract, basis exclusively.

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Feature article

Psychiatrists Want Autonomy in "Business" of Medicine

If they could change one thing about the practice of medicine, what would psychiatrists change? The majority of answers received from our online physician survey focused on gaining greater autonomy for psychiatrists in dictating clinical decisions.

Among 377 psychiatrist answers to this open-ended physician survey question were these:

"More time for patients than papers."

"(Turn) mangled managed care back into physician-directed and patient-focused care."

"Improve physician empowerment, e.g., taking back control from insurance companies and improving mental health parity."

"Fewer patients per day, more staff support, more time off."

"The big business of medicine as ruled by insurance companies and health care systems is one thing I would change, but I know these entities are here to stay."

"(Turn) mangled managed care back into physician-directed and patient-focused care."

Among 451 psychiatrists responding to the national physician survey, only 4% said they were not frustrated about practicing medicine in today’s healthcare marketplace. The remaining respondents identified with a list of possible frustrations as follows:

Administrative and business agendas interfere with clinical decisions – 34%

Administrative/business agendas interfere with clinical decisions – 34%

Reimbursement issues – 26%

Lifestyle issues: Too much time at work – 12%

Medical liability issues – 11%

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Provider Testimonials

"Working with LocumTenens.com has been absolutely fantastic because everyone made me feel important and comfortable. It's been straightforward, with no "smoke and mirrors."
— Psychiatrist, Florida