Psychiatry Resident Doctor - 80% to 100%

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With over 1,300 employees, the Department of Psychiatry fulfils a triple mission covering the treatment of mental disorders, education, and research.

The department’s mission is to effectively detect and treat increasingly common and diverse pathologies with respect for patients and their relatives.

Organised into 6 services, the department offers a very broad and diverse range of care including inpatient care, multidisciplinary outpatient care in various forms and intensities, organised according to the principles of community psychiatry, as well as specialised programmes and units. The department provides integrated, clinical, and structured quality teaching for doctors in training, raising awareness of psychological, biological, and social dimensions. It also offers structured theoretical training in the three main psychotherapy models, as well as individual and group supervisions included in the training curriculum.

The department also actively supports research pathways that meet a high standard of quality.

Finally, the department seeks to understand the origins of mental disorders through cognitive and affective neurosciences, a true flagship of the Geneva site. To this end, it conducts patient-oriented academic and clinical research of high quality.

In line with your training pathway to obtain your psychiatry and psychotherapy qualification, you will join a care unit within the department and, as part of a multidisciplinary team, provide psychiatric and psychotherapeutic follow-up for inpatients or outpatients in your unit.

Alongside your work, you will benefit from integrated, clinical, and structured postgraduate training of high quality according to FMH requirements for obtaining the specialist title in psychiatry and psychotherapy.

You may also participate in ongoing research activities within the services. Support is available if you wish to pursue a doctoral thesis.

Integrated quality training meeting the requirements of the Swiss Medical Association (FMH), including practical training through clinical activity and theoretical training across all fields of psychiatry as well as the three main psychotherapy approaches.

As part of your training, you will rotate through the different services of the department according to your chosen training pathway.

In addition to practical and theoretical training, you will participate in psychotherapy supervisions and conferences.

The department covers the entire training.

You hold a federal medical diploma or have training deemed equivalent by the Medical Professions Commission of the Federal Office of Public Health (MEBEKO).

Experience in psychiatry and/or somatic medicine is an advantage.

For non-French-speaking candidates, a C1 level in spoken and written French is required. Please attach a certificate confirming your language level when applying.

• Start date: 01.11.2027
• Number of positions: several
• Work rate: 80% to 100%
• Job grade: 20
• Contract: 12-month fixed-term contract renewable to permanent
• Application deadline: 31.05.2027
• Contact for enquiries: Dr J-P Bacchetta, assistant physician, recruitment commission coordinator, jean-pierre.bacchetta@hug.ch

Your initial engagement is on a fixed-term basis and will be converted to permanent from the second year of activity depending on the department’s needs and the quality of your performance.

Information from the Swiss Medical Association (FMH) regarding the conditions for obtaining the specialist title in psychiatry and psychotherapy

https://www.siwf.ch/fr/formation-postgraduee/titres-specialiste-formations/psychiatrie-et-psychotherapie.cfm#i123643

Postgraduate training provided by the department: https://www.hug.ch/sante-mentale-psychiatrie/specialisation-psychiatrie-psychotherapie

Working conditions and procedures to be undertaken (including diploma recognition): https://www.hug.ch/emploi

Your application must include a motivation letter, your curriculum vitae, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last two work certificates.

This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.