Promoting diverse experiences and academic excellence
The Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia General Psychiatry Residency Program is the outgrowth of a unique partnership between academic and public psychiatry. Our training program emphasizes a multi-disciplinary approach to mental health services, promotes academic excellence, engages residents in research and teaching, and provides diverse rotation experiences.
Video: General Psychiatry Residency
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our priorities
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are to provide a solid educational
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experience
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along with scholarly activity as well as
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different things that residents can use
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lifelong so we want to teach them to be
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self-directed learners lifelong learners
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we want to
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emphasize residents as teachers and we
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want them to be able to practice
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wherever they choose after graduation
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and feel well prepared to do so
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we actually allow them to choose
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electives to customize some experiences
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if they let us know for example that
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they're interested in a particular
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diagnosis or patient population
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we allow them to see those patients in
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an outpatient setting in an inpatient
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setting
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and set up electives so residents really
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have the opportunity to customize
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experiences and and really foster their
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own personal
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interests the level of autonomy in our
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program
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is is an upward slope by the end of
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intern year
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you feel pretty capable of handling
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most basic stuff on your own and even
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some of the more challenging stuff
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second year which is what jade's doing
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right now you
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you see patients and then you may check
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in at the end of the week
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typically with a supervisor but in the
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moment you're the one making those
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decisions
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on interacting with patients and then in
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third year when you return back to more
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inpatient settings you're essentially
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treated as a junior attendee
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it escalates appropriately throughout
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the years
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a typical day for me as a current pgy2
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is me coming into clinic kind of
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reviewing the patients that i have on my
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schedule for the day
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you know updating myself on what we
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talked about at their last visit
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medication changes and things like that
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and then
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just seeing those patients throughout
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the day kind of back to back
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writing notes in between as i have time
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there are certainly some
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challenging moments throughout the day
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but i think that one of the things that
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helps me get through is
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having those patients who you know i see
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getting better
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and who you know value our relationship
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and i can see that i'm making a
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difference one of the first things that
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is unique about our program is the
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diversity of our clinical sites
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so our residents rotate within the state
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department of mental health
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the veterans administration different
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prisma health locations
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the department of corrections and other
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community institutions
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and so they really get to see everything
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and go a lot of different places see
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systems and patients and i think that's
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really enriching for them
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we actually go to bryant psychiatric
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hospital kirkland correctional facility
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so we see a lot of different places
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there's a lot of different
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you know settings to treat patients in i
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think that's really important to see how
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other health systems are operating
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another thing that we have also is we
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have really good fellowships that really
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enrich our general training and that's
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in child adolescent psychiatry
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forensic psychiatry and geriatric
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psychiatry we have a longitudinal
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wellness
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program for the residents we have lots
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of opportunities for scholarly activity
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and we have really good didactics really
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good teachers as well
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when i was selecting a residency program
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i think the most important factor
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for me was feeling like the people that
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i train with are like family
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now that i am a resident i can say that
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i experience
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that camaraderie every day from walking
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into
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my colleague's office and having a chat
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walking to lunch together
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to texting day and night to you know
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hanging out with each other on the
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weekends
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if i could offer one piece of advice to
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applicants this year then i would say
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put your best self forward but remember
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to be yourself
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because ultimately you want to feel like
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the program accepts you for who you are
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you
Our curriculum is greatly enriched by early exposure to subspecialties, and the expertise provided by our child and adolescent, geriatric and forensic psychiatry fellowship programs. The program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and accepts eight residents each year.
