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Program Overview

The Combined Internal Medicine and Psychiatry Residency is a five-year program, with 30 months each of internal medicine and psychiatry training. Here's how it's split up:

PGY-1

Residents complete their internship during the PGY-1 year. Training consists of:

  • Eight months of internal medicine training
  • Four months of psychiatry training

Focus: Acute management of medical and psychiatric illnesses. Outpatient practice skills begin to be developed in internal medicine continuity clinics.

PGY-2

  • Training is divided equally between internal medicine and psychiatry
  • Residents serve as upper levels on inpatient medicine services
  • Rotations include elective subspecialty experiences in both departments

Focus: Building outpatient med-psych clinic panels, which will be maintained throughout the remainder of training

PGY-3

  • Training is divided equally between internal medicine and psychiatry
  • Elective time is included in both departments

Focus: Refining expertise in acute management of medical and psychiatric illness while continuing with medicine and med-psych continuity clinics. Residents have the option to begin psychotherapy training.

PGY-4

  • Dedicated 12-months of outpatient psychiatry rotation
  • Training indluces both outpatient psychotherapy and medication management through practice experiences at diverse clinical sites
  • Residents can pursue a variety of longitudinal electives including integrative care model clinics, interventional psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, eating disorders clinic, family therapy, medical education and dialectal behavioral therapy

Focus: Outpatient psychotherapy training and building a psychotherapy patient practice alongside ongoing continuity experiences with med-psych clinic panels and outpatient psychiatric medication management clinic.

PGY-5

Residents return to inpatient medicine for 2 months and complete additional subspecialty rotations in medicine. A majority of the final year is dedicated to elective time in both specialties, giving residents ample opportunity to pursue their own scholarly and professional interests as they prepare to graduate to the next step in their careers as dual-boarded physicians.

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