Cross-cultural, community mental health and forensic experiences are also provided. During the fourth year, the resident serves as senior supervisor on the inpatient adult unit and has teaching responsibilities for the junior residents and medical students as well as administrative experience. Each rotation provides a Journal Club and case conference as well as supervision of the residents rotation on that service. A buddy system for incoming residents is used during the first three months of call. Grand Rounds are held on Thursdays and case conferences with faculty are held on Fridays at noon.
Lunch is provided to the residents five days a week.
All faculty members in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology actively participate in residency didactics. Frequent multidisciplinary as well as outside speakers are incorporated into the didactic seminars. Presentations are coordinated to ensure comprehensive review. In addition, each individual rotation offers case conferences and journal club discussion. In addition, GL-2 residents attend psychoanalytic seminars held at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute.