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60W Psychiatrist

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Overview

An Army psychiatrist examines, diagnoses, and treats personnel with emotional or mental illnesses. The psychiatrist also prescribes courses of treatment for mental illness and situational maladjustment.

Core Skills

  • Assessment and treatment of situational maladjustment
  • Psychiatric care for intellectual disabilities

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Psychiatrists

Army experience examining, diagnosing and directing treatment for personnel with emotional or mental illness directly supports civilian psychiatric practice.

How to prepare: Contact the target state's medical board to review your medical education, specialty residency and examination records against its licensing requirements. All states require physician licensure, with requirements varying by state.

What the civilian work involves
  • Prescribe, direct, or administer psychotherapeutic treatments or medications to treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders.
  • Design individualized care plans, using a variety of treatments.
  • Analyze and evaluate patient data or test findings to diagnose nature or extent of mental disorder.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software
  • Epic Systems

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 60W Psychiatrist

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 60W (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: Assessment and treatment of situational maladjustment, Psychiatric care for intellectual disabilities, Psychiatrists (O*NET 29-1223.00)

  2. O*NET: Psychiatrists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Psychiatrists (O*NET 29-1223.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Physicians and Surgeons

    [3] What They Do; Duties; How to Become One, Training and Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Psychiatrists (O*NET 29-1223.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 60W

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