- 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
- Over 17 combined trained Internal Medicine and Psychiatry physicians on faculty
- Five combined medicine-psychiatry clinics at Grady providing co-located, integrated care where our residents work with combined trained faculty
- Inpatient medicine and psychiatry unit at Grady staffed by combined medicine and psychiatry faculty
- The med-psych residents’ schedules are created to help focus on their career interests
- Distinction tracks available to the med-psych residents include social medicine and health equity, medical education, quality improvement, point of care ultrasound, medical innovations, HIV medicine, ethics, simulation, medical informatics
- Regularly scheduled 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 six months of medicine and six months of psychiatry switching between medicine and psychiatry every three months. The interns attend primary care, inpatient medicine and psychiatry didactics.
Medicine rotations include:
- Two inpatient medicine ward months
- One inpatient cardiology month
- One ICU month
- One to two weeks infectious disease consults
- One to two weeks of palliative care consults
- Ambulatory care Y-weeks every fifth week
Psychiatry rotations include:
- Three inpatient psychiatry months
- Two emergency psychiatry months
- One outpatient community psychiatry month
PGY-2
PGY 2’s complete six months of medicine and six months of psychiatry switching between medicine and psychiatry every three 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
- Two weeks elective
- Two weeks procedure service
- One neurology month
- Two weeks emergency medicine
- Two weeks night float
- Ambulatory care Y-weeks every fifth week
Psychiatry rotations include:
- Two inpatient psychiatry months
- Six weeks psychiatry consult liaison
- Two weeks med-psych unit
- One neurology month
- One geriatric psychiatry month
PGY-3
PGY 3’s complete six months of medicine and six months of psychiatry alternating between medicine and psychiatry every three 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 elective month
- One ICU month
- Two weeks night float
- Ambulatory care Y-weeks every fifth week
Psychiatry rotations include:
- One inpatient psychiatry month
- Two psychiatry consult liaison months
- Two weeks psychiatry elective
- Two weeks child psychiatry
- One addiction psychiatry month
PGY-4
PGY-4 and 5 years are split into six-month blocks of medicine and psychiatry. During this six-month psychiatry block, the residents have psychotherapy training, adult outpatient psychiatry continuity clinic, psychopharmacology clinic and complete their child psychiatry requirements
Medicine rotations include:
- One inpatient medicine ward month
- Two weeks inpatient HIV service
- Three weeks med-psych unit
- One ICU month
- Two weeks night float
- Two to three weeks of elective
- Two weeks medicine subspecialty
- Ambulatory care Y-weeks every fifth week
PGY-5
PGY 4 and 5 years are split into six-month blocks during which the residents begin outpatient psychotherapy. During this six-month psychiatry block, the residents have psychotherapy training, adult outpatient psychiatry continuity clinic, psychopharmacology clinic and complete their child psychiatry requirements.
Medicine rotations include:
- One inpatient medicine ward month
- Two weeks ICU
- Two weeks geriatric medicine
- Three weeks med-psych unit
- Two weeks night float
- Three weeks elective
- Five weeks subspecialty
- Ambulatory care Y-weeks every fifth week