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Program Overview

The Combined Internal Medicine and Psychiatry Residency is a five-year program, with 30 months each of internal medicine and psychiatry training. Here's how it's split up:

PGY-1

Residents complete their internship during the PGY-1 year. Training consists of:

  • Eight months of internal medicine training
  • Four months of psychiatry training

Focus: Acute management of medical and psychiatric illness

Outpatient practice skills begin to be developed in internal medicine continuity clinics.

PGY-2

  • Training is divided equally between internal medicine and psychiatry
  • Residents serve as upper levels on inpatient medicine services
  • Rotations include elective subspecialty experiences and caring for patients on the locked med-psych inpatient unit

Focus: Building outpatient med-psych clinic panels, which will be maintained throughout the remainder of training

PGY-3

  • Training is divided equally between internal medicine and psychiatry
  • Elective time is included in both departments

Focus: Outpatient psychotherapy training and building a psychotherapy patient practice alongside growing continuity medicine and med-psych clinic panels

PGY-4

  • Dedicated 12-month outpatient psychiatry rotation 
  • Training is balanced equally between outpatient psychotherapy and medication management through practice experiences at diverse clinical sites
  • Residents can pursue a variety of longitudinal electives including integrative care model clinics, child psychiatry, family therapy, medical education and dialectal behavioral therapy

PGY-5

A majority of the final year is dedicated to elective time, giving residents ample opportunity to pursue their own scholarly and professional interests as they prepare to graduate to the next step in their careers as dual-boarded physicians.

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