PGY-1: $63,000 PGY-2: $64,500 PGY-3: $66,000 PGY-4: $67,500

Competitive salary

Up to $2,000 which is considered taxable income.

Signing Bonus

Located within 70 miles from Washington D.C. and Baltimore. Drive to the heart of either city in little over an hour or catch a regional rail 18 miles from Hagerstown.
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<li>Affordable housing ranging from $800 - $1200/month for a single bedroom apartment/townhouse.</li>
<li>Year-round outdoor activities including historical sites, national parks, vineyards, skiing, hiking and biking trails.</li>
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Location

CME stipend of $3,600 (total for the entire residency period, not per year) toward medical education, textbooks, conferences CME, medical equipment, board prep, examination costs or other approved expenses.
Multiple free conferences/grand rounds from renowned regional medical professionals are offered.

Professional Development

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<li>15 days PTO annually</li>
<li>7 days for official Meritus holidays annually</li>
<li>5 CME days annually</li>
<li>5 days total for career development in the PGY-3 and PGY-4 years</li>
<li>3 days total for USMLE Step 3/COMLEX Level 3 preparation</li>
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Time Away Benefits

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<li>Free parking</li>
<li>Food allowance - $200/month. Lunch provided during weekly didactic seminar and ground rounds</li>
<li>401K with automatic 3% employer contribution</li>
<li>Paid membership to American Psychiatric Association and the Maryland Psychiatric Society</li>
<li>Access to medical staff office and benefits</li>
<li>Corporate discounts to many local businesses including: OneLife Fitness, AT&amp;T, Sprint and more.</li>
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Additional Program Perks

The Heath System will purchase two lab coats, embroidered with the name of the Resident.

Embroidered Lab Coats

The Meritus Health Psychiatry Residency Program strives to offer a psychiatric education based in community engagement, social action, and advocacy. Our goal is to develop future psychiatrists trained in evidence-based medicine and psychotherapy who value the calling of a physician as an action-based community leader and healer. Our program supports this mission with curriculum designed to uplift community involvement as an expert in mental health with barrier-breaking educational activities, serving the people of Washington county where they are with the psychiatric and &ldquo;whole person&rdquo; services they need. We invite you to envision yourself in our residency as a partner in making this vision for mental health education and practice a reality.&nbsp;
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KEY DISTINCTIONS
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<li>Emphasis on direct community action and advocacy with regular learning experiences outside of the clinic and in the community including curated experiences serving on our Meritus Mobile Clinic, in community-based mental health clinics, and with various community and grassroot organizations</li>
<li>Only rural psychiatry residency in Maryland</li>
<li>Planned 20 resident (5-5-5-5) training program with our first class set to start July 2025</li>
<li>Two main sites for education: Meritus Medical Center and Brook Lane, the second largest stand-alone mental health facility in the state of Maryland, with combined services which include adult and child and adolescent inpatient, outpatient, psychotherapy, and PHP/IOP services, addiction IOP services and acute inpatient service for detoxification and rehabilitative linkage, medical, ED, and addiction inpatient consult services, neuromodulation, and a mental health same-day walk in clinic</li>
<li>Planned involvement with the proposed Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine with ample opportunity for growth as a medical educator</li>
<li>Will apply for osteopathic recognition in the next 2-3 years, making our program one of the only ACGME-accredited psychiatry residency programs with osteopathic recognition in the country</li>
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We are looking for compassionate, team players who value hands-on caring of our community. If you want the honor of helping to build&nbsp;your residency program and to mold your education as well as the education of residents for years to come, this is the place for you! We are happy to hear about your interest in our program and to answer any questions you may have. Please contact our program coordinator, Robin Shaffer, at <a href="mailto:robin.shaffer@meritushealth.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">robin.shaffer@meritushealth.com</a> for more details.

<h2>About us</h2>
<h3>Mission statement</h3>
To develop well-rounded, community-based psychiatrists who provide quality, equitable care with compassion, excellence, integrity, and cultural responsiveness
<h3>Aims</h3>
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<li>To create leaders who make change in our community through a training program built on advocacy, scholarship, cross-cultural sensitivity, and leadership</li>
<li>To provide clinical training in a variety of patient populations within the community across diverse demographic backgrounds, with an emphasis on those who are underserved</li>
<li>To deliver a well-rounded education in multiple clinical settings to produce practice ready, community psychiatrists who are experts in both psychopharmacology and psychotherapy</li>
<li>To develop an environment with a focus on physician wellness and self-care to give residents the tools and space to navigate their roles as leaders, teachers, and healers with physical and emotional resilience</li>
<li>To provide mentorship and expert supervision to our residents with a focus on individualized learning</li>
<li>To develop competent and strong physician leaders of the interdisciplinary and clinically diverse medical landscape</li>
<li>To produce compassionate healers who emphasize and incorporate a holistic, &ldquo;whole person&rdquo; approach into everyday psychiatric practice</li>
<li>To develop leaders in medical education with strong value placed on the physician&rsquo;s role as an educator</li>
<li>To promote an emphasis on patient safety, evidence-based, best practices in psychiatry, and continuous quality improvement with exceptional patient care at the forefront</li>
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<h2>Osteopathic Designation</h2>
True to Meritus Health&rsquo;s mission and values, Meritus Health Psychiatry Residency plans to obtain Osteopathic Recognition after its continued accreditation. This unique honor will make Meritus Health Psychiatry Residency one of the only psychiatry residency programs with osteopathic recognition in the country. Our goal with this added educational experience is to bring the science and practice of osteopathic principles and manipulative medicine into the art of psychiatry. We will teach and provide evidence-based manipulative treatments to heal our patients with multiple mental health concerns such as depression, anxiety, addiction, concurrent pain, and insomnia. Residents will be provided a specific osteopathic didactic curriculum and will provide osteopathic manipulative treatment to patients in a specialized psychiatric OMT clinic.

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<h2>Message from Dr. Theibert</h2>
Greetings from Meritus Health! We are excited to introduce our new Adult Psychiatry Residency, a program started out of passion for education, advocacy, rural osteopathic medicine, and the uplifting of our community. I am personally delighted to share our vision for this residency and show you why Meritus Health&rsquo;s Psychiatry Residency is a program you will not only receive exceptional opportunities on your path to becoming a psychiatrist but do so in a caring, supportive atmosphere where you can thrive as a physician leader, colleague, and healer.
First, I would like to introduce myself. I am pleased to serve at the residency&rsquo;s inaugural program director. I am a mother, a wife, a psychiatrist, a teacher, a mentor, a learner, a volunteer, an advocate, a hiker, a crafter, a baker, and a fellow traveler in life. I am originally from Ohio but was drawn to the Maryland area by this amazing opportunity to become program director. I chose to lead a psychiatry residency program at Meritus Health because of the unique opportunities offered including a new osteopathic medical school and academic training center, the rural Appalachian setting, and the outstanding quality and reputation Meritus Health has as a community health center dedicated to its patients&rsquo; quality of lives. Additionally, I chose to go into psychiatry because I love the science and mission of our field. I feel a love and compassion for our patient population with a desire to heal through psychiatric care, advocacy, and service. My specialties are in adult psychiatry and addiction medicine, but I enjoy every aspect of psychiatry. My true passion is the education and development of learners. I cannot express my joy and excitement to start this program and serve the people and learners of Hagerstown!
I would now like to describe some of the important aspects of our program. The Meritus Health Psychiatry Residency prides itself on its service and advocacy-focused mission. Within our curriculum is a chance to practice psychiatry in the community with Meritus&rsquo; Mobile Clinic program where our residents will start their longitudinal psychiatric clinic on day one out in the community where our patients need us the most. We also are excited to provide a community psychiatry rotation where residents will work with community leaders to support our patient populations through education, volunteer work, advocacy, and psychiatric care. Our passion for advocacy starts at the PGY-1 level with advocacy opportunities built into the curriculum. We are also excited for any resident ideas for service and advocacy with an abundance of opportunities for you to leave your mark on strengthening our community through action.
Meritus Health is also thrilled to introduce to you our proposed School of Osteopathic Medicine. With a proposed plan for 190 medical students per class, our vision for resident teaching experience and education goes beyond the wards. We plan not only for residents to be active leaders in education during the students&rsquo; time in the hospital, but our goal is for active resident participation throughout medical student education from teaching to mentorship to research and beyond. For the Meritus Health Psychiatry Residency, education is a passion and calling we want our residents to feel throughout their careers.
Although the Hagerstown community and the proposed Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine will serve as distinct educational settings, our two main sites of education will be Meritus Medical Center and Brook Lane. Meritus Medical Center currently is a trauma level III (with plans already underway to obtain Level II status) certified medical center. We are a more than 300 bed hospital with several unique psychiatric services including an 18-bed inpatient psychiatric unit, a walk-in mental health clinic, Emergency Department psychiatry services, inpatient psychiatry, addiction, and geriatric consult-liaison services, outpatient psychiatric and therapy services, Intensive Outpatient Programing, and a novel Crisis Center where individuals experiencing withdrawal from substances or are experiencing a mental health crisis can voluntarily stay, receive psychiatric and therapeutic care, and obtain rehabilitative and community linkage and resources. Our partnership with Brook Lane, the second largest standalone behavioral health center in the state of Maryland, provides learners with several educational opportunities. Their services consist of two child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric units, one 18-bed adult inpatient psychiatric unit, Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs for both adults and child and adolescent patients, an addiction-specific Intensive Outpatient Program, a school for children with special needs, ECT and TMS treatments, and adult and child and adolescent outpatient services. We believe our superior educational resources will provide exceptional clinical-based psychiatric training.
Through our residency training, we hope to instill crucial values into our residents. Here at Meritus, we are committed to serving those who experience marginalization and disenfranchisement. Spearheaded by the proposed Meritus Scholl of Osteopathic Medicine&rsquo;s Associate Dean of Health, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, we have developed a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion curriculum not only for the psychiatry residents but for our faculty throughout the medical center. We teach a biopsychosocial model of healthcare, complete with consideration of the ethical, spiritual, and cultural factors of each patient encounter at the forefront of care. Our dedication to this mission is also exemplified in the advocacy and care we provide in the community where we are needed the most. This commitment to whole person care and our legacy-to-come as an osteopathic academic center fuels our future goal of gaining osteopathic recognition.
We also value resident and physician wellness. The profession of medicine is rewarding yet taxing, and we know from experience and research that physicians need not only self-care but an environment and organization that supports it. Our program&rsquo;s dedication to the health and well-being of our residents is seen through our resident wellness initiatives, physician wellness committee, time off policy, Employee Assistance Program services, and individual and group resident supervision. Your wellness is our top priority.
Lastly, I want to share the characteristics we are looking for in our future residents. With our inaugural class, we are searching for residents who want to be a founding and active part of our legacy. We seek to find hard-working, compassionate team-players with dedication to helping us mold our program to meet the needs of this generation&rsquo;s physicians and set a culture for an exceptional educational experience for years to come. We also want residents who aspire to be physician leaders in social action, dedicated to practicing psychiatry in and for the community we love and who are committed to direct patient outreach, advocacy, and equitable, compassionate care for every person.
In closing, I want to convey my genuine excitement for this program. Our mission is to create a better community through service and action. We here at Meritus Health believe we have designed a psychiatry residency program that meets the needs of physicians who are passionate about excellence in compassionate psychiatric care. If you are interested in our program, we are excited to hear from you! Please contact us to see if Meritus Health Psychiatry Residency is a good fit for you.
Sincerely, Heather Theibert, D.O.

The Meritus Health Psychiatry Residency Program is the only rural psychiatry residency in Maryland.

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