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Adult Forensic Inpatient Psychiatry Locums Job Acute Psychiatric Program Hospital California Details/Requirements: 218-bed licensed Acute Psychiatric Program inpatient hospital and a licensed 114-bed Intermediate Treatment Program Provide quality mental health evaluation and treatment to patients/inmates who are referred from prisons throughout the State of California. Need is for 40 hours per week, 4 tens only. Hours: 8am to 6pm, Monday through Friday. M, T, F are mandatory, and the doctor can choose either W or Th. On-call duty only during shift. No after hours call. Acute inpatient experience is required. Must be well versed in psychopharmacology and Axis 2 disorders. Average daily caseload for the Doctor is 15 patients for Acute and 35 for Intermediate, but may vary. On the acute units the average patient load is 15 assigned patients (although there are some units where it is 16 or 17; on one unit there are actually 20). On the intermediate units the average patient load is 32-25 patients, depending on the unit. In most cases the Psychiatrist does not see every patient every day. The general expectation is that patients will be seen twice a week on the acute units and once a week on intermediate. There are so many variations to each unit and Psychiatrists float to other units periodically, that it is hard to give a strict guideline on the number of patients seen in a 10 hour day. On a slow day it might be as low as 3 to 5 patients, and on a busy day it can be 15 patients or sometimes more. There is a