UM/Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Program
The Training Program:
Year One:
- 4 months of introductory inpatient psychiatry at the Walter P Carter Center
(WPCC). Attending physicians are University of Maryland faculty members. Inpatient,
outpatient, substance abuse and rehabilitation services in these facilities
are closely coordinated so residents experience the full range of patient
care. Residents carry no more than six inpatients at a time and receive regular
attending supervision from the unit attending as well as an outside supervisor.
Call is an average of every 5th night.
- 3 months of internal medicine at Mercy Medical Center, a private hospital
ten minutes from campus. Mercy is closely affiliated with University of Maryland
Medical Center's (UMMC) Internal Medicine Department, and our residents rotate
along with Medicine interns. Call averages every 5th night.
- 1 month of adult or pediatric Emergency Room medicine at UMMC. Residents
work in shifts, and there is no call.
- 2 months of neurology - one month of inpatient at UMMC and one month of
consults and clinic at Baltimore VA Medical Center (BVAMC). Call during the
inpatient month (accompanied by a neurology resident) averages once per week.
- 1 month of substance abuse training including an intensive outpatient program
at the BVAMC. Case conferences and didactic sessions weekly with faculty with
addictions expertise supplement the experience. Residents take night call
at WPCC during this rotation which averages every 5th night.
- 1 month of emergency psychiatry as part of the Psychiatric Emergency Service
at UMMC. First-year residents work shifts (3 weeks of days and 1 week of nights),
and there is no call.
- Didactics occur on Thursday when all residents are on campus attending
classes and Grand Rounds. This is followed by a resident meeting with lunch
for all residents weekly. There is a monthly training directors/resident lunch
which gives residents and training directors an opportunity to interact in
an informal setting.
- Psychiatry didactics include introductory courses in pharmacotherapy, interviewing,
psychotherapy, inpatient strategies, neurology, general medicine and psychiatry,
neuroscience, emergency psychiatry, substance abuse, professionalism, research
methods, cultural psychiatry, teaching medical students, and clinical case
conferences. Furthermore, residents participate in the Internal Medicine and
Neurology didactic curriculums while assigned to these rotations.
Year Two:
- A total of 8 months of advanced training in acute inpatient psychiatry.
Each resident rotates for 3 months on a General Adult Unit at the Institute
of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (IPHB) at the University of Maryland Medical
Center and for 2 months on the Geriatric Psychiatry Unit at IPHB. Each resident
also rotates for 3 months at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital consisting
of 6 weeks on the Psychotic Disorders Unit and 6 weeks of a selective rotation
(including the option of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry). Residents carry
no more than 8 patients at one time. New PGY-2 residents may also rotate through
the Spring Grove Hospital. Call averages every 6th night.
- 3 months of consultation/liaison psychiatry at the BVAMC and UMMC, including
the Shock Trauma Center. There is no night call.
- 1 month of emergency psychiatry as part of the Psychiatric Emergency Service
at UMMC. Second-year residents work shifts (3 weeks of nights and 1 week of
days), and there is no call.
- 4 hours per week of outpatient long term psychotherapy.
- Residents who begin the program in Year Two will have their curriculum
adjusted to meet requirements for Board eligibility.
- Didactics include psychopathology, neuropsychiatry, geriatric psychiatry,
basic psychodynamics, substance abuse, child development, mental retardation,
cultural psychiatry, emergency psychiatry, psychopharmacology, ethics, cognitive
therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, family psychoeducation, community psychiatry,
personality disorders, eating disorders, research in schizophrenia, psychological
testing, and group therapy. A dynamic continuous case conference is also included
in the didactics. There is a multidisciplinary case conference in which residents
present to the training director or chairman.
Year Three:
- 12 months of adult and child ambulatory psychiatry at several training
sites (all downtown campus centers plus the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital
and five community mental health centers) allow for a wide variety of approaches
to patient care. Each offers a core experience of long term psychotherapy
(a minimum of 6 hours per week total of therapy sessions and supervision with
two therapy supervisors), short-term therapy, a group, a family, and a long-term
child patient (each with supervision). We focus on the five psychotherapies
in which competence is required by the Residency Review Committee of the ACGME:
psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, supportive, brief and combined psychotherapy/psychopharmacology.
Adult and child diagnostics, psychopharmacology clinics (all with supervision)
and clinical case conferences are also provided.
- Call consists primarily of back up call only, approximately once per month.
- Didactics include observed dynamic psychotherapy, theory and practice of
dynamic psychiatry, observed cognitive behavioral therapy, child psychiatry,
pharmacotherapy, family therapy, cultural psychiatry, substance abuse, forensic
psychiatry, brief psychotherapy, community psychiatry and the severely mentally
ill, group therapy, ethics, mock oral boards, and a psychodynamic case conference.
Residents may choose long term therapy supervisors from an extensive list
of full time and volunteer faculty, who have a wide range of backgrounds and
interests.
Year Four:
- 12 months of electives, with a broad range of approximately 50 choices,
including the various services of Sheppard Pratt, UMMS, the State system and
State-supported community sites, the VA Medical Center, the four Chief Resident
positions, the faculty private practice, the Assertive Community Treatment
Team for the homeless mentally ill, eating disorders, infant psychiatry, the
forensic system, and a student health service. Elective choices in research
include neuroscience, schizophrenia, pharmacology, and services delivery.
- Either: (a) a 3-month part-time forensic psychiatry rotation (2 half-days
a week) or (b) a one- or two-month full-time forensic psychiatry rotation
- Continuing longitudinal experiences in long term psychotherapy and medication
management
- Call consists primarily of back up call only, approximately once per month.
- Didactics include psychiatric careers, hypnosis, substance abuse, genetics,
advances in biologic and psychosocial psychiatry, history of psychiatry, advanced
psychopharmacology, advanced cultural psychiatry, supportive therapy, disaster
psychiatry, observed psychodynamic psychotherapy, and board preparation (including
mock boards).
- All residents must demonstrate competency in evaluating the scientific
literature for evidence-based practice. Some residents choose to participate
in research projects, write or co-write articles submitted for publication,
and frequently present at national meetings.
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This page was last updated on: December 5, 2007.
For more information, call the University Physicians Consultation and Referral Service at 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).
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