Psychiatry Resident Physician - 80% to 100%

Psychiatry Resident Physician - 80% to 100%

• Part-time
• HUG contract type: Fixed-term
• Department: Department of Psychiatry

Company Description

With more than 12,000 employees representing 160 professions, the Geneva University Hospitals are a nationally and internationally recognized institution. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2024 retrospective by clicking here.

With nearly 1,000 employees, the Department of Psychiatry fulfills a triple mission concerning the treatment of mental disorders, education, and research. The department's mission is to effectively detect and treat increasingly frequent and diverse pathologies while respecting patients and their families.

Quality teaching is also provided by the department to students as well as to physicians in training for specialist certification by raising awareness of psychological, biological, and social dimensions. The department also supports quality training in psychotherapy.

Organized into 5 services, the department offers a very broad and diversified range of care including hospital care, multidisciplinary outpatient care in various modalities and intensities, organized according to the principles of community psychiatry, as well as specialized programs and units. The department provides integrated, clinical, and structured quality teaching for physicians in training by raising awareness of psychological, biological, and social dimensions. The department also provides structured theoretical training in the three main models of psychotherapy as well as individual and group supervisions included in the training curriculum.

The department also actively supports research pathways in connection with a translational and clinical research center that meets a high level 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 meeting a high standard of quality.

Job Description

In line with your training path for obtaining your title in psychiatry and psychotherapy, you will join a care unit of the department and ensure, within a multidisciplinary team, the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic follow-up of patients in your unit, either inpatient or outpatient.

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

You may also participate in ongoing research activities at the service level. You can also benefit from support to carry out a doctoral thesis.

We offer:

Integrated quality training meeting the requirements of the Swiss Medical Association (FMH), which includes both practical training through clinical activity and theoretical training in all fields of psychiatry as well as in the three main axes of psychotherapy.

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

In addition to this practical and theoretical training, participation in psychotherapy supervisions and congresses is included.

The department covers the entire training.

Qualifications

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 asset.

For non-French-speaking candidates, a C1 level in spoken and written French is required. When applying, please attach a certificate certifying your language level.

Additional Information

• Start date: 01.11.2026
• Number of positions: 20
• Activity rate: 80% to 100%
• Job class: 20
• Contract: 12-month fixed-term renewable to permanent contract
• Application deadline: 31.12.2025
• Contact for information: Dr. Jean-Pierre Bacchetta, assistant physician, coordinator of the hiring commission, jean-pierre.bacchetta@hug.ch

Your engagement is initially fixed-term and is renewed indefinitely 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

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 file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your curriculum vitae, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 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.