Baylor College of Medicine

Key Responsibilities

• • Perform comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and consultations for hospitalized patients with medical and surgical conditions at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (Main Campus and McNair Campus) and the Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit (McNair Campus).
• • Assess, diagnose, and manage psychiatric disorders in medically complex patients across inpatient settings.
• • Communicate diagnostic impressions, treatment recommendations, and ongoing care plans effectively with referring physicians and interdisciplinary treatment teams.
• • Prescribe and manage appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions for psychiatric conditions.
• • Provide psychoeducation to patients and family members regarding psychiatric diagnoses, treatment options, and recovery planning.
• • Deliver follow-up psychiatric care to active patients on the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry service.
• • Conduct emergency psychiatric assessments and crisis evaluations for patients presenting to affiliated emergency departments.
• • Collaborate with psychiatrists, psychologists, trainees, social workers, case managers, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to optimize patient outcomes.
• • Ensure timely and accurate handoff communications and patient sign-outs to support continuity of care, including transition of care to weekday consultation teams following call coverage.
• • Serve as a professional role model and contribute to the education and supervision of medical students, residents, fellows, and other trainees participating in the service.
• • Partner with case management and social work teams to support discharge planning and facilitate appropriate transitions of care.
• • Coordinate with consultation service administrative staff and hospital-based social workers to arrange outpatient psychiatric follow-up and continuity of care following discharge.
• • Maintain accurate, timely, and complete clinical documentation within the electronic medical record.
• • Participate in assigned weekend call coverage and consultation service schedules, with opportunities for additional weekend and holiday moonlighting coverage.
• • Comply with institutional, departmental, hospital, and regulatory requirements related to patient care, documentation, and quality improvement.
• • Perform other duties as assigned.