Psychiatry Residency Columbia - Training Sites

First-hand experience in Columbia-area hospitals and clinics

Prisma Health Baptist Hospital is a state-of-the-art medical center that provides a comprehensive continuum of mental health services for patients ages five through geriatrics. Resident rotations at this facility provide experiences in geriatric psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, electroconvulsive therapy, and child and adolescent psychiatry.

Prisma Health Richland Hospital is a nationally recognized regional community teaching hospital with associated ambulatory clinics, a freestanding adult inpatient psychiatric facility (Richland Springs), and the Joyce Martin Hill Emergency Mental Health Center. Residents spend time on this campus for many rotations including; pediatrics, internal medicine, family medicine, adult psychiatric inpatient, integrated geriatric psychiatry, integrated perinatal psychiatry, emergency psychiatry and consultation-liaison services for adults, child and adolescents, and trauma surgery patients.

Prisma Health Day Treatment Program in Columbia offers intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs for psychiatric, substance use, and co-occurring illnesses. Patients receive specialized treatment with medication evaluation and monitoring, intensive individual psychotherapy, and therapeutic groups.

Columbia Veterans Medical Center is a government medical complex, which includes a psychiatric pavilion for inpatient and outpatient adult and geriatric psychiatry, a mental health-intensive case management program, and a substance abuse treatment program.

S.C. Department of Mental Health incorporates a comprehensive statewide network that includes 17 community mental health centers and satellite offices. Residents see patients from the Department of Mental Health on many rotations, including the emergency consultations through telepsychiatry, the local mental health center crisis triage clinic, and a variety of forensic experiences.

Crossroads Treatment Center is an organization that provides medication assisted treatments (MAT) through outpatient clinics in multiple states, serving more than 22,000 patients per month. The clinics approach recovery with biological, counseling, drug screening and referral interventions. Residents work in the Columbia-based clinic.

University of South Carolina Health Services serves the over 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students of our state’s flagship university. Residents take part in outpatient treatment of these “emerging adults” in the context of a multi-disciplinary team that includes on-site individual and group therapy, eating disorder treatment, and campus wellness initiatives.