Psychiatry Residency Greer - Curriculum

The Greer Psychiatry Residency Program is designed with a longitudinal approach to enhance the depth of learning. This design is visible within the rotation schedule and the curriculum model. Didactics are structured around a thoughtful curriculum to provide the residents exposure that increases in depth and breadth to match their training progression. With a diverse faculty with various sub-specialties ranging across the lifespan, the residents learn about psychiatric disorders from a prenatal to a geriatric perspective. Clinically, residents follow patients for extended periods of time, allowing for a more naturalistic conceptualization of mental health and illnesses, and exposure to the long-term effects of treatments. Also, close supervision with faculty allows for strong mentor-mentee relationships.  

Upon completion of the program, residents are expected to be competent in the core areas of patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice. The end goal is to graduate excellent psychiatrists who transform the health care experience for our patients and families in the community by inspiring health, serving with compassion and being the difference. 

An overview of the rotation schedule by year is listed below:  

PGY1:  

As this is a longitudinal program, a typical week has the following components: 

• 2 days/week outpatient family medicine 
• 1 day/week outpatient neurology 
• 1 day/week adult outpatient 
• 0.5 day/week psychotherapy 
• 0.5 day/week didactics 
• Every 8 weeks, the residents spend 1 week on the consult service.

To show how this plays out, here is a sample PGY1 schedule:

PGY2: 

Residents are assigned to inpatient and outpatient rotations in the PGY2 year, spending 2 weeks on inpatient alternating with 2 weeks on outpatient. A typical outpatient week has the following components:   

• 1/2 day/week geriatric outpatient clinic 
• 1 day/week child outpatient clinic 
• 2 day/week adult outpatient clinic  
• 0.5 day/week didactics 
• 0.5 day/week psychotherapy 
• 0.5 days/week forensics for 6 months

Here is a sample PGY2 outpatient week: 

PGY3: 

A typical outpatient week has the following components:  

• 1 day/week community mental health
• 1 days/week adult outpatient clinic  
• 1 day/week addiction 
• 0.5 day/week reproductive psychiatry clinic  
• 0.5 day/week psychotherapy 
• 0.5 day/week didactics 
• 0.5 day/week college aged clinic
• Every 8 weeks, the residents spend 1 week on the consult service. 

PGY4:  

The PGY4 year is heavily elective-based. Required rotations include ongoing adult outpatient clinic (at this point, you may have patients that have been with you since your intern year) and ECT. In order to accomodate a variety of electives, half of the PGY4 year is in a traditional block format and half is in a longitudinal format. Notable electives include: 

• Death, Dying, Grief & Loss outpatient clinic
• Eating Disorder outpatient clinic
• Junior attending rotations
• Advanced psychotherapy electives
• Media elective
• Research electives
• Community mental health electives
• LGBTQ+ psychiatry elective
• ... and more!

We are passionate about our curriculum design and we think it offers great learning. Please feel free to ask us more questions during interview day!