During this experience, senior residents provide clinical supervision to junior residents and medical students. All residents are involved in teaching medical students. PGY 4 residents may spend six weeks on the service for their elective. During this rotation, they supervise and teach PGY 2 residents as well as medical students. Although residents are encouraged to begin building an outpatient caseload starting in PGY 2, this aspect of residents training is emphasized in PGY 3, with additional blocks of elective time available in PGY 4.
Residents also gain practical clinical experience with group, family and couples therapies.
While rotating through the Outpatient Psychiatry Program, residents participate in all ongoing educational and academic activities while providing clinical care under close faculty supervision. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residents learn Child and Adolescent Psychiatry on a two-month inpatient rotation during PGY 2. They may use their elective time for additional training in this area. The use of elective time is quite flexible, and, with the training director s approval, residents may create electives to suit their educational needs.