During the PGY-2 year, residents begin seeing weekly outpatients with individual supervision. Group therapy training begins in the second year when residents conduct a daily inpatient therapy group at University Medical Center which is supervised by a faculty member. During the PGY-3 year, third year psychiatric residents are assigned to the outpatient division at University Medical Center where they see approximately 15 hours per week of ongoing outpatients, in addition to outpatient psychiatric consultations and emergencies. The residents have five hours per week of individual supervision. Three hours per week are for seeing new patients with a faculty member present, one hour per week is for supervision of long-term therapy patients, and one hour per week is for group therapy supervision.
Residents see a wide range of patients both diagnostically and in terms of socioeconomic status.
The resident's education is supplemented by a weekly outpatient case conference and several didactic seminars focusing on advanced psychotherapy topics, such as object relations and self-psychology. Additional seminars are taught in conducting brief psychodynamic psychotherapy. An intensive cognitive and behavioral therapy seminar series is taught during the second year where residents are taught the theoretical background of cognitive behavioral therapy and clinical applications, for depression, for relaxation, for systematic desensitization, for panic disorder and for generalized anxiety disorders, and for insomnia. A year long continuous case seminar is taught in the third year, in which residents meet together with faculty to present video tapes of sessions with selected patients. In addition, reading for this seminar focuses on the clinical application of various psychodynamic schools of thought, and the psychodynamic treatment of borderline and narcissistic character disorders.