Instruction The psychiatry and child psychiatry programs include regularly scheduled classes and seminars. Each Wednesday is set aside for psychiatry seminars, and residents are excused from most rotation sites to attend the seminars. Child psychiatry residents have classes throughout the week mainly at the Austin State Hospital. Twenty-four hour emergency care, both in physical and psychiatric medicine, is available at ASH and is augmented by a staff of consultants and through affiliations with local hospitals and agencies. By means of supervision, seminars, lectures, readings and conferences, the resident is able to learn the information necessary for thorough and competent evaluation, diagnosis and multimodal treatment of mental disorders by the completion of training.
Resident supervision is provided by the clinical staff on site at every rotation.
Psychotherapy supervision is provided, both by ASH staff psychiatrists as well as Austin community psychiatrists, in addition to the clinical supervision. All new residents have extensive orientation classes at the beginning of their rotations. Residents have access to a well-maintained library which contains a full array of texts, journals and periodicals. In addition, the library will obtain any additional material requested through a network of systems. Computer search systems are readily available for individual use by the residents.