Medical Consult Physician Assistant– Behavioral Health / Inpatient Psychiatry
Updated 10/19/26
93740, Fresno, California, United States
Physician Assistant
Psychiatry
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Job at a glance
Degree Required
Other
MPAS/MHS/MMSc/MPH
PhD
DHS/DHSc
Residency/Fellowship/Externship
Position Type
Moonlighting
Locums/Travel
Part-Time/Contract
Work Environment
Hospital
Visa Sponsorship
No
Experience Level
5 years
Job description
Job description
We are seeking experienced APP (NP or PA) to provide daytime medical consultation services for patients receiving inpatient psychiatric care.
The APP will focus exclusively on medical consultation and management of medical issues in psychiatric patients. Psychiatry remains the primary service responsible for psychiatric care.
This is not a traditional Hospitalist APP role. The ideal candidate will have an inpatient medicine, acute care, hospital medicine, or internal medicine background and be comfortable evaluating and managing medical concerns in a behavioral health setting.
Job Responsibilities
Evaluate and manage medical issues arising in behavioral health patients.
Work collaboratively with the psychiatric treatment team.
Provide appropriate medical recommendations within APP scope of practice.
Respond to Rapid Response events as required.
Collaborate with the supervising Hospitalist physician and psychiatric team.
Recognize and appropriately escalate acute medical conditions.
Provide ongoing assessment and management of medical conditions.
Document consultations and patient care using Epic EMR.
Support safe coordination of medical and psychiatric care.
Psychiatry remains primary for psychiatric management. The APP is responsible for medical consultation only.
No procedures are required.
Qualifications
Internal Medicine, Acute Care, Hospital Medicine, or inpatient medicine experience preferred.
Experience evaluating medical problems in psychiatric or behavioral health patients is a plus.
Active ACLS certification required.
Active state medical license required to begin the MSO file.
Comfortable working independently within APP scope of practice.
Strong clinical judgment and ability to recognize medical deterioration.
Comfortable collaborating with psychiatric providers and Hospitalist physicians.
Epic experience preferred.
Recent ventilator-management experience/documentation required as part of the credentialing process.
Must be able to provide ventilator-management logs from the previous 24 months, including experience with short-term and stable/chronic ventilator patients.
Working Hours
Skills
Acute Care
Internal Medicine
Hospital Medicine
Medical consultation
Behavioral Health / Psychiatric inpatient medicine
Medical assessment of psychiatric patients
Rapid Response
Ventilator management
Clinical deterioration recognition
Cross-disciplinary collaboration
Epic EMR
Strong communication and clinical judgment
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