Residents spend six-months on an adult inpatient psychiatry unit caring for severely and chronically mentally ill individuals. They then spend three months each on an inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit and a child and adolescent psychiatry rotation. The PGY III and IV years consist of a 16-month outpatient clinic rotation. Residents have the opportunity at CMH to manage chronically mentally ill individuals in an outpatient setting. The two-month equivalent emergency services rotation occurs at CMH which is the central psychiatric emergency facility for the Lansing metropolitan area.
Residents develop skills in triage, short-term therapy and involuntary certifications.
They also work with the Assertive Community Treatment Team and manage some patients in night care, an overnight, short-term care unit. Between the two settings residents have the opportunity to see severely ill patients with complicated multi-system medical disorders, as well as those with more routine disorders. A neurology rotation is available for those who have not completed the required two months of neurology. Additionally, many residents interested in long-term psychotherapy work with patients in the outpatient clinic until graduation. There are three weeks of vacation per year for PGY I and II residents and four weeks of vacation per year for PGY III and PGY IV residents.