Psychiatry Residency Curriculum
LVHN is an advanced tertiary care network that has a longstanding tradition of quality team medical education. There is a long track record of medical student teaching, training and education within both the psychiatry department as well as other departments. Residents will be led by Program Director Katherine Martin, MD. They will also learn from our dedicated faculty members who have expertise in varying psychiatric subspecialties, including child and adolescent psychiatry, consult liaison psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, psycho oncology and women’s mental health.
Each academic year consists of 13 four-week blocks. For the first three years, residents will complete their required experiences. In the fourth year, time is allotted for a variety of elective rotations in subspecialties. There are ample opportunities and resources available to residents to participate in research and quality improvement projects during the four-year program. Residents will be well prepared upon graduation to enter into general psychiatry practice or to continue forward with subspecialty psychiatric training.
Psychiatry Residency Block Schedule
Year 1
| Emergency Medicine | 1 block |
| Outpatient Internal Medicine Clinic | 1 block |
| Inpatient Family Medicine | 1 block |
| Inpatient Hospital Medicine* | 1 block |
| Neurology | 2 blocks |
| Inpatient Adult Psychiatry | 3–4 blocks |
| Consultation Liaison Psychiatry | 3–4 blocks |
*Residents are able to substitute the inpatient hospital medicine block for inpatient pediatric medicine.
Year 2
| Addiction Psychiatry | 1 block |
| Geriatric Psychiatry | 1 block |
| Inpatient Psychiatry | 2–3 blocks |
| Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 3 blocks |
| Partial Hospitalization | 2 blocks |
| Emergency Psychiatry | 3 blocks |
| Consultation Liaison Psychiatry | 0–1 block |
Year 3
| LVH–Mental Health Clinic | 1 to 2 days/week x 13 blocks |
| LVPG Outpatient Practice | 2 days/week x 13 blocks |
| Psychotherapy Supervision | 1/2 day/week x 13 blocks |
Year 4
| Inpatient Senior Resident | 4 days/week x 3.25 blocks |
| Consult Liaison Senior Resident | 4 days/week x 3.25 blocks |
| LVPG Outpatient Practice | 1/2 day/week x 13 blocks |
| Electives | 4 days/week x 6.5 blocks |
Residents will be able to customize their PGY-4 schedule with electives based on their career goals and preferences. Elective rotations at LVHN include but are not limited to:
- Psychiatric Emergency Services
- Adult Partial Programs
- Inpatient Adolescent Unit
- Inpatient Adult Psychiatry
- Administrative Month
- Neuromodulation which includes ECT and TMS
- Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program
- Teaching Rotation
- Combined Consults which includes: E-consults, Transitional Learning Center, LVAD psychosocial evaluations and Center for Women’s Medicine.
- Outpatient Drug and Alcohol Program
- Street Medicine
- Neurology
- Palliative Care
- Neuroradiology
- Endocrinology
- Toxicology
- Pain Medicine
- Sleep Lab
Teaching Conferences
The psychiatry program at LVHN provides a full array of educational experiences for its residents. Residents will have a dedicated half-day per week for learning. This time will include group supervision during which they will present cases to their faculty supervisor. It will also include a monthly journal club and a monthly patient care conference, which are both led by residents and supervised by faculty members. Finally, it will include a weekly educational lecture series provided by faculty.
Additionally, the department of psychiatry holds monthly grand rounds in which local and national speakers are invited to present on relevant topics in the field. Twice per year, the department holds morbidity and mortality conferences to review recurrent patterns that contributed to adverse patient care and discuss possible corrective actions.