Education and Training

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences enhances the education of undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students and trainees by providing a variety of clinical rotations in both inpatient and outpatients settings. Involvment in the direct care of a wide variety of psychiatric patients is invaluable in the development of each student's clinical skills.

The Psychiatry Residency Training Program, which began in 1974, is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Careful supervision and in-depth academic opportunities in education and research are provided. Many residents have been awarded national research fellowships.

The Residency Training Program currently includes some 32 general psychiatric residents. The educational program is designed to offer the resident comprehensive exposure to many facets of contemporary psychiatric practice. Rotations include inpatient and outpatient clinical experiences with patients ranging from children to elderly. All residents rotate on serices devoted to assessment and management of patients with acute and chronic psychotic states of both toxic-organic and functional etiology, patients who suffer from alochol or substance abuse conditions, patients with forensic problems, and patients requiring psychotherapy. Experience in consultation psychiatry on medical/surgical units is provided.

The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers a two-year, fully accredited fellowship program that emphasizes a developmental, biopsychosocial orientation. A strong commitment to mulitdisciplinary training is reflected in the makeup of the faculty, with its members having backgrounds in child psychiatry, child psychology, family therapy, child neurology, child analysis, and developmental pediatrics. The program is designed to produce skilled professionals who are well-prepard for private practice, public service, and academic careers in child psychiatry. Please contact us at 713-500-2570.