Assistant Professor

Description:

The Department of Psychiatry at McGill University and the Jewish General Hospital are currently inviting applications for a full-time position as a member of the Contract Academic Staff at the rank of Assistant Professor (Clinical). This will be a three-year, renewable appointment and does not confer eligibility for tenure.

The successful candidate will have a broad range of clinical abilities in emergency and acute care psychiatry. The applicant will also have demonstrated experience in education and/or an active research dossier.

The candidate will be appointed to clinical practice at the Jewish General Hospital, part of the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal. The Jewish General Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, offers a full range of services for children, youth, adults and geriatric patients (inpatients and outpatients). There are active research programs in trans-cultural psychiatry, psychosocial health, psychotherapy and family therapy, sleep and aging, and first episode psychosis.

The Department’s mission is to provide excellent clinical care in an academic environment, using family systems and biopsychosocial models to understand patients and their families, and utilizes a full range of evidence-based treatments. The department is proud to host a respectful, multi-disciplinary and inclusive work setting in its multiple areas of activity, which includes the training of a diverse group students from medicine, psychology, occupational therapy, nursing, and social work.

The department is affiliated with McGill, Canada’s most international university. Montreal offers an extremely high quality of life and is one of the most multicultural and lively cities in North America.

Job Duties

In addition to patient care activities, the successful candidate will be expected to provide excellent clinical teaching and supervision to residents and medical students, participate in hospital administrative activities, pursue scholarly activities, and make innovative contributions to the academic mission of the Department.