Psychiatry

Clinical Assignments

 

PGY-1

The Department believes in the importance of a psychiatrist maintaining a medical as well as psychological perspective. All rotations meet Residency Review Committee and American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology requirements. An admitting team concept which permits residents to follow a patient from the initial emergency room contact through intensive inpatient evaluation and treatment is stressed on all services. Residents are assigned to rotations in:

•  Medicine/Pediatrics                                                   

•  Inpatient Psychiatry

•  Neurology

 

 

PGY-1
4 MONTHS MED/PEDS	2MONTHS NEURO	6 MONTHS INPATIENT PSYCHIATRY

 

PGY-2

Refining diagnostic skills and mastering differential therapeutics are major objectives in the second year. Residents also begin to translate these skills into the assessment and treatment of patients in the outpatient setting.

•  Emergency Psychiatry

•  Psychopharmacology and Somatic Treatments

•  Individual Psychotherapy

•  Group Psychotherapy

•  Family Psychotherapy

 

 

PGY-2
6 MONTHS INPATIENT PSYCHIATRY	3 MONTHS EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRY	3 MONTHS AMBULATORY PSYCHIATRY

 

 

PGY-3/4

The goal during these years is to provide the resident

with extensive experience in:

•  Outpatient Psychiatry

•  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

•  Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

•  Selective-Elective Specialty Areas

•  Substance Abuse

 

 

PGY-3
6 MONTHS CONSULTATION/LIAISON PSYCH	6 MONTHS CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCH
12 MONTHS OUTPATIENT PSYCHIATRY GERIATRICS, ADDICTIONS, C/L SPECIALTY CLINICS

 

 

PGY-4
4 MONTHS HUMC OPD	4 MONTHS UH ELECTIVE	4 MONTHS VA ELECTIVE
12 MONTHS OUTPATIENT PSYCHIATRY

 

 

SUPERVISION

Each resident receives a minimum of two hours per week of individual, on-site supervision throughout all four years of training. Additional specialty supervision is encouraged and provided.