Clinical Education

Four Year Clinical Educational Curriculum

PGY1

Internal Medicine Neurology Emergency/Crisis Psychiatry Night Float Inpatient Adult Psychiatry
16 weeks 8 weeks 4 weeks 4 weeks 4 weeks

*A combination of activities designed to lay the foundation for residency, includes observed neuropsychological testing, training in the use of rating scales and structured interviews, strategic interviewing, partial hospital group therapy.

PGY2

Inpatient Adult Psychiatry Inpatient Geriatric and Medical Psychiatry Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Emergency/Crisis Psychiatry Night Float UConn John Dempsey Hospital Research Inpatient Addictions
8 weeks 8 weeks 8 weeks 8 weeks 4 weeks 8 weeks 4 weeks 4 weeks
Outpatient Therapy Cases Assigned

PGY3                                               OUTPATIENT PSYCHIATRY

Continuity Care Clinic-Assessment/Pharmacotherapy/Combined Psychotherapy (50%)
Public Psychiatry-Forensics/Community (20%)
Psychotherapies-CBT/Brief/Psychodynamic/Group (30%)

PGY4

Supervision and Teaching

Junior Residents, and Administrative Psychiatry

(0.6 FTE time)

 Addiction Psychiatry

Veterans Administration Hospital

(0.8 FTE)

 Electives

(0.1 FTE)
9 months 3 months 9 months
At least one day per week of general outpatient Psychiatry (long term continuity cases, individual, couples, and family therapy)

CALL SCHEDULE BY YEAR

  • Residents on call in Psychiatry are in-hospital, and they cover the 18-bed inpatient psychiatric unit, consult liaison service, psychiatric Emergency Department, and phone calls from outpatients. Residents do not round on the inpatient unit (this is done by the attending psychiatrists).
  • PGY1: Residents are on call in Psychiatry only while on rotation in psychiatry or neurology. While rotating on medicine, residents take calls as per the medicine service’s schedule.
    • First six months: All shifts are supervised by a PGY3 resident on-site. Average of 1-2 short calls (4:30 to 8 p.m.) per week and 1-2 longer weekend calls (12 hours long) per month.
    • Second six months: Intern operates independently with the same call schedule as the first six months, but now the supervising PGY3 residents are available via phone for assistance and no longer on-site. Residents also complete one month of night float (8 p.m. to 8 a.m., Sunday p.m. - Friday a.m.) supervised by an in-house PGY2 resident during this time.
  • PGY2
    • Similar to PGY1 but with the addition of 24-hour shifts covering Friday evening from 4:30 to 8 a.m. after the regular workday.
    • One month of independent night float (8 p.m. to 8 a.m., Sunday night to Friday morning) in the first 6 months.
    • One month of supervisory night float (8 p.m. to 8 a.m., Sunday night to Friday morning) in the second six months.
  • PGY3
    • First six months: In-person supervision of PGY1 call (weekday short calls and weekend 12-hour calls).
    • Second six months: Available via phone to PGY1s for assistance on-call.
  • PGY4
    • No call after hours.
    • Coverage of PGY1 and PGY2 afternoon didactics on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1-2 times per month.