Psychiatric doctor - Salary and Career
Clinical doctors

Psychiatric doctor - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They carry out medical consultations and care, treat patients and clients, implement disease prevention and health promotion actions, both individual and collective, coordinate health programs and services, carry out expertise, audits and medical investigations, prepare documents and disseminate knowledge in the medical field.

How much does an Psychiatric doctor earn

A Psychiatric doctor earns between $3.023 and $17.250 per month, with an average monthly salary of $7.624 and a median salary of $7.079 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 999 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Psychiatric doctor

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 7.624 91.492 1.906 75
1º Quartile 3.023 36.280 756 30
Median Salary 7.079 84.948 1.770 70
3º Quartile 13.156 157.871 3.289 130
Higher Salary 17.250 207.005 4.313 170


Professional job categories

  • Science and arts professionals
    • professionals of biological sciences, health
      • medical professionals
        • clinical doctors

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Main workplaces

Clinical doctors the positions of this CBO family exercise their functions in sectors whose activities refer to health and social services, teaching, research and development. In general, they work on their own, as self-employed, without permanent supervision. They are organized individually and in a work team, developing activities in closed environments, during irregular working hours. Exception made is professionals who work in the Family Health Strategy Program, where they perform their duties as employees, with occasional supervision and fulfill the weekly workload provided for in a specific Ordinance. They may work in uncomfortable positions for long periods and, due to the nature and level of responsibility inherent in the role, may be subject to constant stress. In some occupations, professionals may be subject to the action of toxic, chemical, radioactive and biological materials.


What does it take to work in the field of Clinical doctors

These occupations are performed by professionals with higher education in Medicine, accredited by the Regional Council of Medicine (CRM). The full exercise of functions takes place after a period of one to two years of professional experience and three to four years for the anthroposophic doctor. For the exercise of the function in the Family Health Strategy Program, no previous experience is necessary.


Functions and activities of Psychiatric doctor

Clinical doctors must:

  • perform investigations, audits and medical inquiries;
  • implement health promotion actions;
  • promote family health;
  • promoting family health;
  • implementing health promotion actions;
  • perform medical consultation and care;
  • difusing medical knowledge;
  • perform expertise, audits and medical inquiries;
  • spreading medical knowledge;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • coordinating health programs and services;
  • treat patients and clients;
  • treating patients and clients;
  • perform medical consultation and assistance;
  • elaborate medical documents;
  • perform medical expertise, audits and investigations;
  • diffusion medical knowledge;
  • coordinate health programs and services;
  • perform consultation and medical assistance;
  • diffusion of medical knowledge;
  • perform medical expertise, audits and inquiries;
  • perform medical consultation and service;

  • Activities

    • interpret data from clinical examination and complementary exams;
    • inspect work environments;
    • promoting health campaigns;
    • perform an active search for local situations;
    • assist childbirth;
    • distribute tasks;
    • assist the regulation of medical activities;
    • formulate expert questions;
    • indicate treatment;
    • perform gene therapy;
    • participate in the management of inputs;
    • demonstrate receptiveness;
    • fill in compulsory notification forms;
    • setting up service schedule;
    • guard organs and tissues;
    • monitor the user's therapeutic plan;
    • issue reports;
    • examine medical documents;
    • registering activities in information systems;
    • perform treatment with biological agents;
    • establishing medical-hospital committees;
    • establishing prognosis;
    • participate in association boards, professional associations and health councils;
    • stimulating the patient to develop autonomy and self-care;
    • establish health action plan;
    • demonstrate ability to deal with adverse situations;
    • participate in planning activities;
    • archive documents;
    • elaborate medical records;
    • implement worker safety and protection measures;
    • setting up a scale of services;
    • perform organ and tissue transplants;
    • elaborate image documents;
    • coordinating the care of users;
    • supervise instrumental propaedeutics;
    • define territory of action;
    • guarding organs and tissues;
    • develop procedures;
    • issuing certificates;
    • demonstrate leadership ability;
    • forward users to other professionals;
    • implanting orthoses and prostheses;
    • developing research in medicine;
    • elaborate informative and normative material;
    • request interconsultations;
    • answer expert questions;
    • issue certificates;
    • prescribe hygienic-dietary measures;
    • establishing a health action plan;
    • implement environmental health measures;
    • perform hospital visits;
    • set up service schedule;
    • indicating non-drug therapies;
    • assist in the regulation of medical activities;
    • monitor health status of hospitalized patients;
    • setting up a service schedule;
    • specify inputs;
    • provide testimonials;
    • elaborate reports;
    • perform anamnesis;
    • promote comprehensive care;
    • notify diseases, injuries and situations of local importance;
    • issue prescriptions;
    • manage urgent and emergency situations;
    • elaborate protocols for medical procedures;
    • assisting the regulation of medical activities;
    • indicating the need for hospitalization;
    • dispatch time;
    • perform treatment with physical agents;
    • dispatch work;
    • establish prognosis;
    • raise diagnostic hypotheses;
    • perform instrumental workup;
    • demonstrate ability to work in a team;
    • elaborate image documents;
    • manage financial resources;
    • demonstrate ability to adapt language;
    • evaluate expert knowledge;
    • developing procedures;
    • practicing psychotherapy;
    • disclose information in the media;
    • discuss diagnosis, prognosis and treatment with patients, clients, guardians and family members;
    • organize scientific meetings;
    • issue opinions;
    • perform community health diagnosis;
    • demonstrate ability to interpret verbal and non-verbal language;
    • provide consultancy and advice;
    • supervise instrumental workup;
    • prescribe immunization;
    • updating registration information;
    • elaborate reports;
    • promote educational activities;
    • prescribing drugs, medicines, herbal and anthroposophic;
    • select work team;
    • planning treatment of clients and patients;
    • deliver preventive treatments;
    • demonstrate medical actions;
    • prepare teaching material;
    • carry out actions to prevent injuries and cures;
    • identify partners and resources available in the community;
    • participate in meetings, congresses and other scientific events;
    • supervise health team;
    • performing gene therapy;
    • cultivating organs and tissues;
    • encouraging community participation;
    • supervise medical training;
    • evaluate medical acts;
    • prepare research projects;
    • evaluate biographical moment;
    • practicing interventional procedures;
    • serving users in ubss, in homes or community spaces;
    • prescribe treatment;
    • monitor the health status of hospitalized patients;
    • demonstrate ability to preserve medical confidentiality;
    • perform autopsies;
    • interpret clinical examination data and complementary exams;
    • practicing clinical interventions;
    • teaching classes;
    • performing gene therapy;
    • perform complementary exams;
    • develop equipment;
    • organizing health promotion groups;
    • diagnose the health status of patients and clients;
    • promote health campaigns;
    • elaborate standard operating procedures;
    • demonstrate quickness of perception;
    • remove organs and tissues;
    • follow the user's therapeutic plan;
    • inspect equipment and facilities;
    • mapping area of operation;
    • demonstrate ability to make decisions;
    • demonstrate ability to listen;
    • performing treatment with biological agents;
    • assisting childbirth;
    • perform urgent and emergency care;
    • demonstrate empathy;
    • identify users' needs;
    • promoting educational activities;
    • organizing continuing education courses;
    • issue declarations;
    • demonstrate altruism;
    • monitor cognitive/emotional development of the student/educator;
    • participate in team evaluations;
    • redefine the disease for the patient by individualizing its meaning;
    • demonstrate selective attention capacity;
    • participate in continuing education activities;
    • select patients in specific situations;
    • demonstrate ability to provide humanized care;
    • supervise medical acts;
    • to raise diagnostic hypotheses;
    • organizing scientific meetings;
    • writing scientific papers;
    • implementing environmental health measures;
    • perform physical examination;
    • request additional exams;
    • perform home visits;
    • describe medical actions;
    • define actions according to local priorities;
    • track prevalent diseases;
    • collect testimonials;
    • to be responsible for all services provided to the enrolled population;
    • rehabilitate patients and clients (biopsychosocial conditions);
    • demonstrate impartiality of judgment;
    • implement biosecurity measures;
    • implementing worker safety and protection measures;
    • perform in-office assistance;
    • identify groups, families and individuals exposed to risks;
    • perform treatment with chemical agents;
    • promote vector and zoonosis control actions;
    • demonstrate tolerance;


    Sectors that hire Psychiatric doctor the most in the job market

    • hospital care activities
    • activities of associations for the defense of social rights
    • outpatient care activities
    • general public administration
    • outpatient medical activity with resources for performing complementary exams
    • service activities in emergency room and hospital units for emergency care
    • other human health care activities
    • psychosocial assistance to people with psychic disorders, mental disability and chemical dependency
    • health management support activities
    • welfare services without accommodation




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