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 Professor's Rounds, staffings, conferences and courses, as well as on an informal basis. Most senior academic faculty and residents have the opportunity to work together. Residents also have substantial contact with private practice clinical faculty.
Residents work with the private faculty in treating selected inpatients.
Private attendings also actively participate as psychotherapy supervisors. Exposure to full-time academic faculty together 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. Also, exposure to both academic and private practice faculty lets the resident gain experience with the effects of changes in health care delivery or academic and private practice career opportunities. Performance is evaluated by the Division of Medicine or Pediatrics. A resident is evaluated in terms of knowledge, skills, and attitude.