- Located in the large metropolitan area of Atlanta where training involves a variety of sites including inner-city safety net hospital, tertiary and quaternary academic medical centers, geriatric hospital, and VA medical center. This allows the residents a broader educational experience and a diverse patient population.
- Residency program director is med-psych trained
- Both divisions are academically strong and provide unwavering support for our med-psych program
- Eight combined trained IM-Psychiatry physicians on faculty
- Three combined medicine-psychiatry clinics at Grady providing centrally located, integrated care that our residents work in with combined trained faculty
- Excellent exposure to psychotherapy training
- Abbreviated internal medicine intern year status
- The med-psych residents’ schedules are individually created to help focus on their career interests
- Medicine clinic 4th and 5th year is optional opening up time for residents’ individual career interests
- 5 medicine distinction programs available to the med-psych residents including social medicine, global health, medical innovations, teaching/leadership and HIV medicine
- Regularly scheduled mandatory med-psych conferences
- Research opportunities in medicine, psychiatry and combined
- Regular social events for the med-psych residents
- Opportunities for international electives
- X+Y (4+1) schedule on internal medicine rotations
Schedule Outline
PGY-1
PGY 1’s complete 6 months of medicine and 6 months of psychiatry switching between medicine and psychiatry every 3 months. The 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
PGY 2’s complete 6 months of medicine and 6 months of psychiatry switching between medicine and psychiatry every 3 months. The residents 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 supervisor 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
PGY 3’s complete 6 months of medicine and 6 months of psychiatry alternating between medicine and psychiatry every 3 months. The residents 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 liaison months
- 5 months psychiatry elective
- Two weeks child psychiatry
- One addiction psychiatry month
PGY-4
PGY-4 and 5 years are split into 6-month blocks of medicine and psychiatry. During this 6-month psychiatry block, the residents have psychotherapy training, psychopharmacology clinic and complete their child psychiatry requirements. Psychotherapy training includes group supervision, cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic therapy.
Psychiatry 6-month block includes a combination of outpatient continuity clinics, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology clinic with ½ day 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
PGY-5
PGY 4 and 5 years are split into 6-month blocks during which the residents begin outpatient psychotherapy. During this 6-month psychiatry block, the residents have psychotherapy training, psychopharmacology clinic and complete their child psychiatry requirements. Psychotherapy training includes group supervision, cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic therapy.
Psychiatry 6-month block includes a combination of outpatient continuity clinics, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology clinic with ½ day child psychiatry clinic per week.
Medicine rotations include:
- One inpatient medicine ward month
- One ambulatory month
- One CCU month
- Two weeks geriatric medicine
- Two weeks palliative care
- One elective month
- One medicine subspecialty month