Hey everyone, I'm an Internal medicine physician who is getting recruited into a psych practice by a friend for psychiatric med management.
They're aware of my internal medicine background and are ok with limiting my patients to anxiety/depression/bipolar (no lamictal/lithium/valproate, solely antipsychotics) with outside referral for treatment resistance/difficult to treat cases.
I've asked for and they've agreed to no psychosis/schizo cases, no addiction medicine.
ADHD is ok, and I'm comfortable managing that.
The main reason they want to recruit me is for a separate clinic they're opening specifically for eating disorders. They expect to see a ton of metabolic dysfunctions in that patient population which I'm very comfortable seeing/managing. However a good part of my practice will also be mood disorders as mentioned above.
I've gotten comfortable with managing mood disorders in residency/practice, with good results. I am comfortable with antipsychotic-SSRI combination specifically.
Tbh I'm burned out from general IM and am looking forward to this opportunity.
What should I be looking out for? Especially from a medical malpractice/liability perspective? I don't have any formal training in psychiatry apart from my rotations in med school and residency.
Appreciate all your responses and time!