Internal Medicine Physician in Psychiatry - 80% to 100%

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

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

You are also able to participate in ongoing research activities at the service level. You can also benefit from support to complete a doctoral thesis.

A high-quality integrated 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 ensure a rotation within the different services of the department according to your choice of training path.

To this practical and theoretical training is added participation in psychotherapy supervisions and congresses.

The department takes charge of the entire training.

You hold a federal medical diploma or have training deemed equivalent by the Commission des professions médicales of the Office fédéral de la santé publique (MEBEKO).

Experience in the field of psychiatry and/or somatic medicine is an asset.

For non-French-speaking candidates, a C1 level of French in spoken and written tests is required. When applying, we ask you to attach a certificate certifying your language level.

• Start date: 01.11.2027
• Number of positions: several
• Activity rate: 80% to 100%
• Function class: 20
• Contract: Fixed-term contract of 12 months renewable into a permanent contract
• Application deadline: 31.05.2027
• Information request: Dr J-P Bacchetta, médecin adjoint, coordinateur de la commission d’engagement, jean-pierre.bacchetta@hug.ch (mailto:jean-pierre.bacchetta@hug.ch)

Your commitment is initially for a fixed term and is renewed indefinitely from the second year of activity according to the needs of the department 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 (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 (https://www.hug-ge.ch/sante-mentale-psychiatrie/specialisation-psychiatrie-psychotherapie)

Working conditions and steps to be taken (notably diploma recognition): https://www.hug.ch/emploi (https://www.hug.ch/emploi)

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

This advertisement is addressed indistinctly to women and men.

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

With more than 13'000 employees representing 160 professions, the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève are a reference institution at the national and international level. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8kVMJchPR0).

Counting more than 1’300 employees, the Département de psychiatrie (https://www.hug.ch/departement-psychiatrie) responds to a triple mission involving the treatment of mental disorders, training and research.

Thus, the department's mission is to screen and effectively treat pathologies that are increasingly frequent and polymorphic, while respecting patients as well as their relatives.

Organized into 6 services, the department has a very wide and diversified range of care including hospital and multidisciplinary outpatient care according to different modalities and intensities, organized according to the principles of community psychiatry, as well as specialized programs and units. High-quality integrated clinical and structured teaching is provided by the department for doctors in training, sensitizing them to psychological, biological and social dimensions. The department also ensures structured theoretical training in the 3 main models of psychotherapy as well as individual and group supervisions included in the training curriculum.

The department also offers active support for research paths meeting a high level of quality.

Finally, the department seeks to understand the origins of mental disorders using 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 level of quality.