Each resident participates in a variety of clinical and educational activities, including supervised patient management, clinical conferences, departmental conferences, journal clubs, reading courses, and resident-specific didactic courses. Residents also learn from actively teaching Washington University medical students. Residents progressively assume more clinical and educational responsibilities. Ample elective and selective time allows a resident to study areas of particular interest. In addition, each rotation has several teaching conferences specifically geared toward residents at a particular level of training.
Residents meet frequently with junior and senior staff members of the department.
Full-time attending faculty supervise inpatient psychiatry and are available 24 hours a day. Senior and mid-level faculty interact with residents at Attending Rounds, Professor s Rounds, conferences and courses, as well as on an informal basis. Residents also have substantial contact with private practice clinical faculty and work with the private faculty in treating selected inpatients. Private attendings also actively participate as psychotherapy supervisors. Working with full-time academic faculty as well as with private practice faculty allows the resident to develop a broad approach to the treatment of patients with psychiatric symptomatology by exposure to a wide variety of clinical approaches and theoretical perspectives.