Residents, faculty and outside speakers all contribute to the Division Conference, and general psychiatry residents are encouraged to attend. The goal of the elective semester is to enable residents to concentrate on one or more issues of particular interest to them. In addition, every year one senior resident is selected to take part in a six-month exchange program with the Institute of Psychiatry in London. This program, one of the few international exchanges for house officers in psychiatry, permits our residents to study with teachers such as Professor Michael Rutter and Professor Gerald Russell, and allows us the privilege of contributing to the education of an outstanding young psychiatrist from the United Kingdom. Every resident has at least three supervisors, including the attending psychiatrist for the service on which he or she is rotating.
Residents meet with their supervisors on a weekly basis.