Psychiatry

Samaritan Health Services’ Psychiatry Residency Program offers a dynamic and comprehensive learning experience featuring many hands-on opportunities coupled with excellent didactic training. This diverse learning experience prepares psychiatrists to provide broad-based mental health care, assume leadership roles in medicine and the community, and contribute to the evolving knowledge base of the specialty of psychiatry.

Our Psychiatric Residency Program is a four-year (48 month) osteopathic post-graduate program. The program is an AOA-approved residency with both DO and MD faculty physicians. The didactic portion of our program offers a one half-day per week experience addressing multiple aspects of psychopharmacology, psychotherapyand crucial topics applicable to all physicians.

Rotation Schedule

The academic year consists of 13 blocks which are each four weeks in length. The Psychiatry curriculum is listed below but is not in order of how the training blocks will be organized.

Block	PGY 1	PGY 2	PGY 3	PGY 4
1	Inpatient Psychiatry	Inpatient Psychiatry	50% Consult Liaison 50% Outpatient	50% Elective 50% Outpatient
2	Inpatient Psychiatry	Inpatient Psychiatry	50% Consult Liaison 50% Outpatient	50% Elective 50% Outpatient
3	Inpatient Psychiatry	Inpatient Psychiatry	50% Consult Liaison 50% Outpatient	50% Elective 50% Outpatient
4	Inpatient Psychiatry	Inpatient Psychiatry	50% Consult Liaison 50% Outpatient	50% Elective 50% Outpatient
5	Inpatient Psychiatry	Inpatient Psychiatry	50% Consult Liaison 50% Outpatient	50% Elective 50% Outpatient
6	Internal Medicine	Inpatient Psychiatry	50% Consult Liaison 50% Outpatient	50% Elective 50% Outpatient
7	Internal Medicine	Inpatient Psychiatry	50% Community Psychiatry 50% Outpatient	50% Elective 50% Outpatient
8	Internal Medicine	Child/Adolescent Psychiatry	50% Community Psychiatry 50% Outpatient	50% Elective 50% Outpatient
9	Internal Medicine	Child/Adolescent Psychiatry	50% Community Psychiatry 50% Outpatient	50% Elective 50% Outpatient
10	Neurology	Child/Adolescent Psychiatry	50% Community Psychiatry 50% Outpatient	50% Elective 50% Outpatient
11	Neurology	Child/Adolescent Psychiatry	50% Community Psychiatry 50% Outpatient	50% Elective 50% Outpatient
12	Emergency Medicine	Geriatric Psychiatry	50% Community Psychiatry 50% Outpatient	50% Elective 50% Outpatient
13	Family Practice	Geriatric Psychiatry	50% Forensics/A&D (inpt or outpt) 50% Outpatient	50% Elective 50% Outpatient

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Psychiatry