Jordan Miller, MD

My name is Jordan Miller, MD, and I am a PGY-4 psychiatry resident here at LVHN. I am currently doing an elective rotation with the Valley Health Partners Street Medicine team. This is a unique service we have here that provides homeless people with primary care services, and often psychiatric services, wherever they are in the community. This means the team, which typically consists of 4-5 people including myself, will drive from place to place around Allentown and Bethlehem meeting different people, sometimes at drop-in centers or their tents. In addition to prescribing medications, often sending them to pharmacies that can provide them for free, the team will also provide resources such as drinking water, food, blankets, clothing and other essential supplies.

I wake up every weekday morning around 6:30-7 a.m., grab a bite to eat and then quickly gather my things and leave to go start street rounds at 7:45 with the team. Typically rounds last until around 3-3:30 p.m. While rounding, I take time to snack while on the road between stops, in lieu of a scheduled lunch. And on Wednesdays as a fourth year, instead of attending our typical service, we spend the morning in continuity clinic seeing outpatients from 8-11 a.m. before running over to Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Muhlenberg in Bethlehem for didactics. During the PGY-4 year, we have 13 weeks of being the junior attending for the consult-liaison psychiatry service at LVH–Muhlenberg, 13 weeks as junior attending on the inpatient psychiatric unit at LVH–Muhlenberg, as well as 26 weeks of electives, with four weeks per elective. For my electives later in the year, I will spend time with sleep medicine, palliative medicine and our adolescent partial hospitalization program.

When I get home around 3:30-4 p.m., I will spend some time reading topics from the day before playing video games or watching a show. With the nicer weather, I have been playing tennis frequently with one of my co-residents and will often spend time walking, jogging or biking at Lehigh Parkway, a collection of trails that is right outside my apartment in Allentown. As a fourth year, I don’t work weekends anymore, so I am trying to spend extra time with family, friends and my amazing co-residents.