Residents have a longitudinal experience in this outpatient psychiatry clinic and see a wide range of acute and chronic psychiatric problems. Presenting either directly to the clinic or from outside referral sources, our patients have diverse backgrounds. Weekly outpatient teaching conferences and extensive faculty supervision occur. Curriculum Residents will develop expertise in areas common to both disciplines. In each of the five years of training, at least three months are spent rotating in each discipline.
Residents follow their own patient populations in both family practice and psychiatry.
The required amounts of family practice clinic time are principally in years three and four, but it should be noted that there is at least one half-day per week in the family practice clinic in the other years of the program. Continuity is also served by the continuous clinic time in the psychiatry clinic, starting in year two. Integrated supervision and seminars provide comprehensive and eclectic training. This curriculum complies with the program requirements for both family practice and psychiatry. It meets the qualifications delineated in the statement regarding combined residencies, which was developed by the boards of psychiatry, neurology and family practice.