Clinical training is supplemented by departmental Grand Rounds, ongoing lectures, ward rounds, and clinical conferences. Resident life is enhanced by reasonable call schedules, scheduled social activities, retreats and T-Group, all of which promote a feeling of camaraderie among residents. The first year of residency consists of six months of inpatient psychiatry, two months of neurology, and four months of internal medicine. The entire third year is an outpatient year. The fourth year includes experience as a senior resident on an inpatient service at one of the main teaching hospitals, as well as rotations in geriatric psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, and substance abuse.
Special attention is given to analytic theory in modern psychodynamically-oriented psychotherapy.
Neurobiology and psychopharmacology are emphasized daily during rotations as well as in didactics. Group therapy, family therapy and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy are curricular components. Each resident is expected to be involved in some form of psychiatric research. Strong support is available through psychiatric supervisors and research assistants, as well as by our research coordinator who holds a doctoral degree in education. Managed care experience, essential in today's practice of psychiatry, is also part of our residents' training experience.