The neurology department at Rush also has a national reputation for excellence and is consistently a very popular rotation for psychiatry residents. Once residents return from their primary care and neurology rotations, they spend a portion of the remainder of their residency treating patients in the Marshall Field IV Psychiatry Ambulatory Services Clinic. The residency program has been designed to give residents ample time to treat patients in the outpatient clinic and, in particular, to allow residents to follow patients over a three-year period. As residents progress through the first three years of training, they spend an increasing amount of time focusing on outpatient psychiatry. An attending psychiatrist provides on-site supervision at the clinic, and all residents receive further supervision when they meet weekly with their individual supervisors.
Residents round with four attending psychiatrists assigned to the consult service.
Consults range from the assessment and management of delirium to providing short-term psychotherapy to patients during their hospitalizations. During the second year of training, residents complete their general adult inpatient requirements. Residents follow their own patients and also provide supervision to first-year residents on the unit. Community Psychiatry Led by Zachariah Douglas, MD, this rotation allows residents to gain experience evaluating and treating patients with a wide variety of psychiatric disorders in the community setting. Residents work directly with Dr. Douglas, treating patients at multiple community mental health centers within the Chicago area.