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Psychiatry Residency Columbia - Schedules and Didactics

Rotation schedule, call, and didactic curriculum

Rotation schedule

Postgraduate year 1

  • Primary care inpatient: internal medicine: 2 blocks
  • Primary care outpatient (internal medicine, family medicine, or pediatrics): 2 blocks
  • Neurology inpatient/c-l: 1 block
  • Adult inpatient psychiatry: 3 blocks
  • Addiction psychiatry: 1 block
  • Child and adolescent psychiatry inpatient: 1 block
  • Emergency psychiatry: 1 block
  • Geriatric psychiatry: 1 block
  • Forensic psychiatry: 1 block

Postgraduate year 2

  • Adult psychiatry outpatient: 12 months
  • Child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient: 6 months
  • Child and adolescent psychiatry consultation-liaison: 6 months
  • Geriatric psychiatry outpatient: 1 month
  • Electroconvulsive therapy: 10 weeks

Postgraduate year 3

  • UofSC Student Health Services: 1 month
  • Addiction psychiatry: 1 month
  • Adult consultant – liaison psychiatry: 2 months
  • Geriatric psychiatry: 1 month
  • Adult inpatient psychiatry: 2 months
  • Ambulatory neurology: 1 month
  • Selective: 1 month
  • Community psychiatry experiences (3 months total with 2, 6 week blocks):
    • Integrated perinatal psychiatry clinic
    • Telepsychiatry-ED and rural health
    • Community Mental Health Center Crisis Triage
    • Intellectual disabilities facility
    • ACT
    • Forensic psychiatry
      • Evaluations for the court
      • Department of corrections maximum security prison
      • Failed restoration and court ordered forensic unit
    • Research
  • Ambulatory psychiatry continuity clinic

Postgraduate year 4

  • Outpatient psychiatry clinic junior attending: 2 blocks
  • Consultation-liaison on trauma surgery: 1 block
  • Child and adolescent psychiatry, inpatient: 1 block
  • Inpatient adult psychiatry junior attending: 4 blocks
  • Electives: 5 blocks

Electives

Generally, PGY-4 residents design an elective program of five months to meet individual educational needs and interests in preparation for future careers. Electives are created with the goal of having a robust educational experience with increased autonomy in preparation for future practice. Almost all fourth year rotations, including electives, are designed to be “Junior Attending” experiences.

Call

Throughout the course of training, PGY-1, PGY-2, and PGY-3 residents take call in the Prisma Health Richland Hospital Emergency Room. Residents obtain histories, perform physical examinations, complete medical work-ups, perform psychiatric evaluations, and make disposition plans for patients triaged to the Joyce Martin Hill Emergency Mental Health Center. Additionally, PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents take weekend consultation-liaison call for Richland Hospital and after-hours call for the ambulatory psychiatry clinic. All call experiences occur under the supervision of attending physicians.

Didactic curriculum

The psychiatric didactic curriculum is designed to provide an interactive forum to augment the resident’s independent reading and clinical experience. There are weekly courses for residents at each level of training that occur on Wednesday afternoons. Didactic time is required for residents and therefore, they are excused from clinical duties.

Grand Rounds, subspecialty grand rounds, ethics conferences, case conferences, journal clubs, and other special teaching seminars are held throughout the year.

Residents are excused from clinical duties for other educational experiences such as the Psychiatry Residents-in-Training Examination (PRITE) and a yearly resident retreat.