Outpatient Psychiatry

The Fayetteville, North Carolina VA Medical Center is seeking BC/BE Psychiatrists. The ideal candidate is an independent care provider who is highly skilled in the management of the patient's mental health needs. 2021 Graduating Residents may apply now! The primary responsibilities are medication management, psychiatric discharges, and teaching of residents. The psychiatrist can expect to see between 10-13 follow-up patients and 1 to 2 intake patients per day. The call coverage is minimal and consists of 14-21 days per year. Academic affiliations are through Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. More than 200 medical residents receive part of their training at this facility every year. U.S. Citizenship, a full, active, and unrestricted U.S. medical license, and BC/BE in Psychiatry are required.

Community Information:

Fayetteville is well known as an ideal place to live, work, and play. Fayetteville received the coveted "All-American City" award from the National League twice in the last decade. This beautiful North Carolina locality has a year-round welcoming climate, sophisticated restaurants, museums, unique shopping, musical and sporting events, kid-friendly fun, elegant art galleries, gardens, trails, and parks. Fayetteville offers big city amenities with a lower population of a little over 200,000. Fayetteville is about 1.5 hours from superb Atlantic Coast Beaches, 3-4 hours from scenic mountains and skiing resorts, and about 1 hour from the capital city of Raleigh. The Fayetteville and Cumberland County area has everything going for it: new strategies for growth, new models for business, and new visions in education. 

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VA boasts a comprehensive compensation and benefits package (Paid Time-Off, Professional/Personal Insurance Coverages, 401K, CME, and Retirement, etc.).

About the VA

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Fayetteville’s growth during the last fifty years has produced an ambivalent response.  During the 1960s, Fayetteville’s main street, Hay Street, with it strip joints and bars that catered to the military, was considered sleazy, and with the Vietnam War in full swing, the city was derogatorily called “Fayttenam.”  By the 1980s, Hay Street had been revitalized, but it has not yet rebounded to surpass the sales of the suburban strip malls and shopping centers.  Today, over one hundred subdivisions, including King’s Grant, Tallywood, Vanstory Hills, and numerous shopping plazas and malls dot the map of Fayetteville.  Some of the first retailing complexes were Eutaw Shopping Center, constructed on Bragg Boulevard in 1948, Boudreaux Shopping Center, built on a former vineyard in the 1950s, and the Westwood Shopping Center, erected in the 1960s.   The large and indoor Cross Creek Mall opened in 1976.  In all, the city’s retail sales have skyrocketed during the post-war years: $44 million in 1948, a half billion in 1972, and one billion in 1982.The increase in sales reveals the constant population growth of the city.  In 1930 Fayetteville’s population was 13,309.  By 1940 the population grew to 17,428, (forty-percent African American). Population growth also resulted from the city expanding its boundaries; after the post-World War II suburban sprawl, city leaders decided to annex over a hundred subdivisions.  In 1980, Fayetteville residents numbered 60,000 and their number more than doubled to 121,015 by 2005 and comprised North Carolina’s sixth largest city.

In addition to its service industry and military bases and growing population, Fayetteville is known for its institutions of higher education.  Founded in 1867 to educate freed slaves, Fayetteville State University, has a current enrollment slightly surpassing 5,000 and offers numerous graduate programs.  Methodist College, a four–year liberal arts college established in 1960, educates approximately 2,000 students.  Fayetteville Technical Community College opened its doors in 1960 and now has over 7,000 full and part-time students.

Fayetteville is also known for its cultural arts.  Following World War II, the city formed the Fayetteville Symphony in 1957, and the Fayetteville Little Symphony in 1962.  The Fayetteville Museum of Art was established in 1972.  Fayetteville can boast of several radio stations, two television stations, and the Fayetteville Observer, founded in 1835 and the state’s oldest operating periodical.  Fayetteville is also home to the Cape Fear Museum of History and the recently opened Airborne and Special Operations Museum in downtown Fayetteville.