Provide psychiatric evaluations, treatment, and follow-up care to incarcerated patients, including monitoring and adjusting psychotropic medications as clinically appropriate. Coordinate with facility leadership and interdisciplinary teams, document care, and support referrals, transfers, crisis intervention, and continuity of mental health services. Requires an MD or DO from an accredited university with specialty training in psychiatry, experience providing psychiatric services to adults, and an unrestricted medical license in the state of practice. Candidates must be board-certified or board-eligible in psychiatry and hold current DEA registration and BLS certification; adolescent psychiatry and corrections experience are preferred.
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