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Psychiatry Residency Program |
General Description
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PGY-1
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In the first year, consist of
four month rotation (16 weeks): Medicine, Pediatrics or Family
Medicine and a two-month( 8 weeks) rotation in Neurology. The six
months remaining are distributed in Emergency Psychiatry and
inpatient based assignment during which there is a day each week set
aside for didactic training activities including lectures, seminars,
individual supervision, Journal clubs and case conferences. The
Psychiatry Clinical activity consist of inpatient service, which is
under direct care of an attending assigned to the unit and is
complemented by two (2) hours ambulatory experience. The program is
designed to give the trainee a working knowledge of evaluation,
diagnostic and therapeutic techniques utilized in psychiatry. A high
degree of individual supervision, plus the didactic program, forms
the nucleus of this rotation, during which emphasis is placed on
quality patient care.
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PGY-2
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In the second year, a day a
week is devoted to didactic activities and the rest to Psychiatry
clinical experience. Residents continue to have their assignments
hospital-based including, Geriatric Psychiatry, along with rotations
in consultation/liaison. Residents will be exposed to Substance Use
Disorder Clinics and Day/Partial Hospitals.. The Consultation and
Liaison Service responds to consultation requests from other
departments within the San Juan VA hospital. On this service, the
resident learns to apply their psychiatric skills in other medical
discipline settings. (This rotation is complemented at a selective
rotation month for experiences in woman health at their postgraduate
year in the CSCO clinics). The opportunity to do advanced work with
the Consultation and Liaison Service is available to all fourth year
residents on an elective basis. The resident continues to maintain
and further develop his/her outpatient load
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PGY-3
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The resident experience in
psychiatry during the third year consists of ongoing outpatient
clinic experience, which includes, Outpatient Child/Adolescent &
General Adult Psychiatry. A one-month equivalent selective on woman
health is required. Resident has the opportunity to request a one
month elective.
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PGY-4
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The fourth year is devoted to
experience in outpatient clinics plus rotations in Administrative
Psychiatry; Electives, in subspecialties areas, which are supervised
by faculty that is particularly, involved and certified in these
treatment areas.
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