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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Physicians who diagnose, treat, and help prevent disorders of the mind. | Analyze and evaluate patient data and test findings to diagnose nature and extent of mental disorder. | |||
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Prescribe, direct, and administer psychotherapeutic treatments or medications to treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders. | ||||
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Collaborate with physicians, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, or other professionals to discuss treatment plans and progress. | ||||
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Gather and maintain patient information and records, including social and medical history obtained from patients, relatives, and other professionals. | ||||
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Counsel outpatients and other patients during office visits. | ||||
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Design individualized care plans, using a variety of treatments. | ||||
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Examine or conduct laboratory or diagnostic tests on patient to provide information on general physical condition and mental disorder. | ||||
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Advise and inform guardians, relatives, and significant others of patients' conditions and treatment. | ||||
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Review and evaluate treatment procedures and outcomes of other psychiatrists and medical professionals. | ||||
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Prepare and submit case reports and summaries to government and mental health agencies. | ||||
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Serve on committees to promote and maintain community mental health services and delivery systems. | ||||
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Teach, take continuing education classes, attend conferences and seminars, and conduct research and publish findings to increase understanding of mental, emotional, and behavioral states and disorders. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Psychiatrists
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Therapy and Counseling | Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance. | |||
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Medicine and Dentistry | Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures. | |||
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Psychology | Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Biology | Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Sociology and Anthropology | Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins. | |||
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Law and Government | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. | |||
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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Chemistry | Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Science | Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Operations Analysis | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. | |||
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Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. | |||
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Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Memorization | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. | |||
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Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | |||
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Speed of Closure | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
ADL Data Systems OptimumClinicals Electronic Health Record | Medical software | |||
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Advantage Software Psych Advantage | Medical software | |||
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Blumenthal Software PBSW24 | Time accounting software | |||
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Cerner ProFile | Medical software | |||
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Computer Assisted Diagnostic Interview CADI software | Medical software | |||
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Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager | Medical software | |||
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Electronic medical record EMR software | Medical software | |||
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Epic EpicCare Inpatient Clinical System | Medical software | |||
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FifthWalk BillingTracker Pro | Accounting software | |||
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GE Healthcare Centricity EMR | Medical software | |||
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ICANotes | Medical software | |||
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Integrated Systems Management OmniMD | Medical software | |||
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MDofficeManager MediVoxx | Medical software | |||
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MEDITECH Behavioral Health Clinicals | Medical software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Office software | Office suite software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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Netsmart Technologies Avatar Clinical Workstation CWS | Medical software | |||
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Practice management software PMS | Medical software | |||
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Psychiatric assessment software | Medical software | |||
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Psychiatric information databases | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Sigmund Software Sigmund Enterprise Management | Medical software | |||
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SoftPsych Psychiatric Diagnosis | Medical software | |||
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Texas Medical Software SpringCharts EMR | Medical software | |||
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UnisonCare UniCharts | Medical software | |||
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Virtual reality software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Web browser software | Internet browser software | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Electronic blood pressure units | Electronic blood pressure units | |||
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Laptop computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Manual blood pressure units | Mercury blood pressure units | |||
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Mechanical stethoscopes | Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Personal digital assistants PDA | Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers | |||
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Tablet computers | Tablet computers | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | Post-Doctoral Training | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Addiction Psychiatrist | |||
Attending Psychiatrist | |||
Behavioral Analyst | |||
Behavioral Specialist | |||
Child Psychiatrist | |||
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist | |||
Clinical Psychiatrist | |||
Consulting Psychiatrist | |||
Doctor | |||
Forensic Psychiatrist | |||
Geriatric Psychiatrist | |||
Medical Doctor (MD) | |||
Neuropsychiatrist | |||
Pediatric Psychiatrist | |||
Physicians and Surgeons | |||
Prison Psychiatrist | |||
Psychiatrist | |||
Psychoanalyst | |||
Staff Psychiatrist | |||
Treatment Coordinator | |||
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