PGY-2s begin to follow psychotherapy cases. These cases will be followed throughout the remainder of the residency. Additionally, they participate in faculty specialty clinics. Night and emergency room coverage is arranged in 12-hour shifts. Faculty also take back-up call from home and make morning rounds to discuss patients seen by residents on call the night before.
Community psychiatry is offered two days a week for six months in tandem with child psychiatry.
Residents can select from more than 40 potential training sites in rural and urban mental health programs, forensic psychiatry, transcultural settings and community support programs. Travel and lodging costs to all parts of Oregon are paid for by the program. The intent is to give the resident familiarity with clinical psychiatric syndromes in children and adolescents, provide tools and working knowledge to help him or her be a competent evaluator of children and adolescents, and enable the resident to develop competence in family assessment and therapy. An underlying goal is to teach a developmental, multi-factorial approach to understanding people that should be as helpful in the psychiatrist's work with adults as with children and families. Psychiatric consultations from all wards in affiliated hospitals are evaluated by the resident and presented to attending faculty.