Combined Internal Medicine and Psychiatry Track

Residents who complete this program are eligible for both the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology exams. The program is divided equally between internal medicine and psychiatry rotations.

This program trains physicians to provide high quality, comprehensive, and integrated patient care. Our graduates practice both medicine and psychiatry in a wide variety settings including primary care, hospital medicine, academic medicine, medicine and psychiatry consult liaisons, integrated medicine and psychiatry clinics, emergency psychiatry, inpatient psychiatry, and outpatient psychiatry and psychotherapy. Upon completion of the program, graduates are eligible for subspecialty fellowships in medicine and psychiatry.

PGY-1 residents complete six months of internal medicine and six months of psychiatry training. Residents switch between medicine and psychiatry every three months. Interns attend primary care, inpatient medicine, and psychiatry didactics, as well as combined medicine/psychiatry clinics while on ambulatory care.

Medicine rotations include:

• Two inpatient medicine ward months
• One ambulatory month
• One subspecialty month
• One inpatient cardiology month
• One ICU month

Psychiatry rotations include:

• Three inpatient psychiatry months
• Two emergency psychiatry months
• One outpatient community psychiatry month

PGY-2 residents complete six months of internal medicine and six months of psychiatry training. Residents switch between medicine and psychiatry every three months and attend primary care, inpatient medicine, and psychiatry didactics, as well as combined medicine/psychiatry clinics while on ambulatory care. The second half of the year, the resident assumes a supervisory PGY-2 role on medicine rotations.

Medicine rotations include:

• Two inpatient medicine ward months
• One ambulatory month
• One elective month
• One neurology month
• Two weeks emergency medicine
• Two weeks night float

Psychiatry rotations include:

• Two inpatient psychiatry months
• Two psychiatry consult liaison months
• One neurology month
• One geriatric psychiatry month

PGY-3 residents complete six months of internal medicine and six months of psychiatry training. Residents switch between medicine and psychiatry every three months and attend primary care, inpatient medicine, and psychiatry didactics, as well as combined medicine/psychiatry clinics while on ambulatory care.

Medicine rotations include:

• Two inpatient medicine ward months
• One ambulatory month
• One elective month
• One ICU month
• One medicine subspecialty month

Psychiatry rotations include:

• One inpatient psychiatry month
• Two psychiatry consult liaisons
• 1.5 months psychiatry elective
• Two weeks child psychiatry
• One addiction psychiatry month

PGYs 4 and 5 are split into six-month blocks of medicine and psychiatry. During the six-month psychiatry block, residents have psychotherapy training and psychopharmacology clinic. They will also complete their child psychiatry requirements. Psychotherapy training includes group supervision, cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic therapy.

Psychiatry rotations include a combination of outpatient continuity clinics, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology clinic with a half day of child psychiatry clinic per week.

Medicine rotations include:

• One inpatient medicine ward month
• One ambulatory month
• One month inpatient HIV service
• One ICU month
• Two weeks emergency medicine
• Two weeks night float
• One medicine subspecialty month