Residency Program

The Department of Psychiatry program offers two types of General Psychiatry Residency programs: a four-year program and a three-year program. Our four-year program in General Psychiatry is primarily intended for graduating medical students who require a GY-1 (internship) year, and who apply through the National Residents Matching Program (NRMP); the majority of our residents are in this program. Our three-year program is intended for those physicians who will have previously completed a non-psychiatric ACGME-accredited GY-l year elsewhere.

In these programs, the resident will encounter patients with a wide variety of psychiatric disorders who come from every sector of the socio-cultural spectrum. Our large, full-time faculty and our even larger voluntary faculty represent all major fields of modern psychiatry. Taken together, the wide variety of clinical experiences and the exposure to a diversity of clinical interventions and theoretical paradigms assures residents of the opportunity to gain competence in the clinical management and understanding of psychiatric disorders. Additional enrichment also occurs from resident participation in medical student education, particularly at the clerkship level. Further, research opportunities exist for interested residents.

Four Year Program

The first year of training in the Four Year Program occurs at the GY-1 level. The GY-1 residents are split into two groups, one which begins the 6 months of Psychiatry in the first half of the GY-l year and the other which begins with Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, or Neurology; the two groups switch in midyear. When GY-1 psychiatric residents are assigned to the Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, or Neurology rotations, they are working with residents from other specialties, attending teaching conferences and rounds on those services, and taking call on those services. They are not expected to attend lectures or seminars in the Department of Psychiatry during those 6 months; the GY-1 Psychiatry Curriculum is repeated every 6 months to ensure the participation of all first year trainees. The rotational content of this program is shown below.

Three Year Program

The first year of training in this program is at the GY-2 level. The rotational content for this program is shown below. As regards lectures and seminars, the new GY-2 residents participate in the First Year Psychiatry Curriculum for the first 6 months of training, and then join the Second Year Curriculum for the last 6 months.

* The ACGME requires 2 months of Neurology prior to completion of training in Psychiatry. Those entering our program at the GY-2 level or higher are encouraged to obtain it in their internships elsewhere. Those who have not completed a total of 2 months of Neurology prior to beginning their training with us will be required to obtain the balance of such training in our program, typically in the GY-4 year.