Also in the second year and continuing through their third and fourth years, residents expand their longitudinal experience with adult, adolescent, and child outpatients. In the latter years, the longitudinal experience in outpatient psychotherapy is supplemented with specific training assignments and electives. In addition, residents take on training assignments in hospital consultation-liaison psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, outpatient psychiatry, community psychiatry, severe and persistent mental illness, geriatric psychiatry, and subspecialty fields such as sleep disorders and anxiety. Training for drug and alcohol treatment is provided in a community setting, as well. Administrative psychiatry experience is provided through the Office of Mental Health of the State of Pennsylvania.
Residents receive regular evaluations of their performance at six-month intervals.
You will also have the opportunity to evaluate your training experience and supervision and make suggestions for improvements. Training in Inpatient Psychiatry Inpatient psychiatry training occurs in a variety of settings. Residents rotate through the geriatric and child inpatient units, and the adult inpatient unit that accommodates patients in the adolescent age range through the geriatric population. Resident training is intensive on the 20-bed adult inpatient unit which maintains a high census. During inpatient training, residents will see patients suffering from a wide range of psychiatric illnesses, and are integrally involved in their treatment.