Assistant Physician / Assistant Doctor Children and Adolescents

Your progress is our goal.

Are you at the same time enthusiastic and cautious, brave and fearful, patient and impatient, clever and sometimes ignorant, but always looking for new solutions? Then you are right with us, because every day we are a bit of all of these.

Would you like to be part of a university innovative and dynamic team in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy in the capital of Switzerland? We offer you diverse opportunities at a university clinic to train as a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. Together with interdisciplinary teams and under close senior medical supervision and guidance, you can get to know the entire spectrum of mental disorders in childhood and adolescence, in order to diagnose and treat them independently step by step. In the first year, we prepare you intensively for emergency services so that you can more relaxedly discover the diverse experience opportunities in this great specialist field. Additionally, we support you in your wishes for the compatibility of family and work as well as university research.

Your tasks

• You take on diagnostic tasks and therapeutic case management under senior medical supervision
• You get to know the entire spectrum of mental disorders in childhood and adolescence and thus learn to treat and accompany our patients with different mental illnesses
• You work in an interdisciplinary team and actively contribute your medical expertise
• You also take responsibility in emergency services
• You continuously expand your diagnostic and therapeutic skills in the clinical area
• You participate in research and teaching

• You have completed a medical degree recognised in Switzerland or have a corresponding licence (MEBEKO recognition)
• Professional experience is desirable but not mandatory
• You wish to pursue further training in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy or are interested in basic child and adolescent psychiatric care
• You want to be trained in an academic environment in modern and scientifically based methods of diagnosis and therapy
• You enjoy working in a team, take responsibility and have joy in the specialty and therapeutic work
• You look forward to the opportunity to participate in research and teaching
• You have German language skills at level C1

Your contacts

Dr med Cornelia Ursula Bieri-Scheidegger

Cornelia Ursula Bieri-Scheidegger answers your specialist questions:
T: +41 58 630 98 32
Yanis Emanuel Ryser

Email: bewerbungen@upd.ch
T: +41 58 630 96 71

Your workplace

Hallerstrasse 10, 3012 Bern