Morning report is a popular weekly seminar with the Chair. Each Thursday there is a residents' meeting and lunch, providing an opportunity for all residents to take a welcome break during the busy week. In 1998, we started a process and support group for interns, which has been well received, and thus far, a great success. Second year B uilding on the foundation of the internship year, the second year program further exposes the residents to a variety of training situations and opportunities in psychiatry. Residents continue their inpatient training at University Hospital, Martha Jefferson Hospital and Western State Hospital for a total of nine months of adult inpatient psychiatry.
Didactic sessions continue one morning a week as in the first year.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residents spend eight weeks treating child and adolescent patients at the new DeJarnette Center for Human Development, a new state psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents. Residents participate in multidisciplinary patient evaluations, and are introduced to techniques of group, family, individual and pharmacologic therapies for children and adolescents. Topics of twice weekly seminars include development, psychodynamic theory and management of specific clinical problems. The consultation-liaison service provides residents with a two to four month experience in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric problems in patients who are also being treated for other illnesses. This service sees approximately 850 patients per year with a variety of diagnoses.