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Hennepin-Regions Psychiatry Training Program

Program Details

Clinical Programs and Didactic Programs and Research

The primary objective of the residency program is to teach the requisite clinical skills needed to practice general psychiatry.

Clinical Programs

  • Traditional biopsychosocial approach
  • Active supervision in every rotation
  • Rotations through public and private settings so residents can develop skills necessary to provide care to a diverse patient population -- outpatient clinic sites ranging from city-based clinics with large populations of chronically mentally ill patients to suburban sites with working families of diverse economic means
  • Both hospitals are teaching sites for medical students. Opportunities to teach students, both informally on rotations and formally by giving lectures
  • Psychotherapy begins as a G1 resident with didactic lectures and continues with classes throughout all four years, including a fourth year option of classes at Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Clinical therapy opportunities in the G2 and G3 years include a twelve-month continuous therapy rotation for two half days each week, with accompanying 60 to 90 minute hands-on teaching session with faculty and direct observation of resident/patient encounters via closed circuit televideo monitoring. Therapy competencies are measured by written exams, direct observation and audio/video evaluations.

Clinical rotations are completed at:

  • Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC)
  • Regions Hospital
  • HCMC and Regions’ subspecialty psychiatric clinics:
    • Regions’ International Clinic; Deaf and Hearing Impaired Clinic
    • HCMC’s Women's Mental Health Clinic; Sleep Disorders Clinic; Acute Psychiatric Services (psychiatric emergency room)
  • Ramsey County Mental Health Center
  • Hennepin County Mental Health Center
  • Hazelden
  • Hamm Clinic
  • Psychiatric Recovery, PA in St. Paul, Minnesota
  • ARIS clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Park Nicollet Clinic in St. Louis Park, Minnesota
  • Dr. Ronald Groat’s Private Psychiatry Clinic in Edina, Minnesota
  • County Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams

 

Didactic Programs

  • Dedicated half-day weekly didactic training from hospital and community faculty members: residents are not expected to be on any service and attendance is facilitated at either location by teleconference rooms available at both HCMC and Regions.
  • Several seminars throughout the year on topics ranging from spirituality, cross-cultural issues and end-of-life care.
  • Twice yearly day-long retreats for all psychiatry residents around areas of interest such as corporate communications, music therapy, yoga, and personal goal setting.
  • Weekly conferences for all psychiatry staff include Special Topics, Grand Rounds, and Journal Club. PGY-3 and PGY-4 residents obtain experience by presenting at these events.

 

Research

Clinical Trials in Behavioral Health at Regions Hospital

HCMC's Research Foundation

 

PROGRAM YEAR 1

CLINICAL PROGRAM

Months 1-6

› 4 Months
  • Medicine
    • Internal Medicine
    • Family Medicine
    • Pediatrics
    • Emergency Medicine

2 Months

  • Neurology
    • Inpatient

Months 7-12

› 6 Months

  • Adult Inpatient Psychiatry

 

The medicine rotations will be completed through a combination of ambulatory medicine, internal medicine, family medicine, and/or pediatrics with one month of emergency medicine. Attending physicians' complete daily rounds with a team of medical students and residents, providing clinical education in addition to didactic seminars.

The neurology rotation includes a com-bination of inpatient, outpatient, and consultation experiences.

Inpatient psychiatry rotations are on psychiatry units at both Hennepin County Medical Center and Regions Hospital. Each resident is assigned to a specific team for patient care.

During the first year, evening and weekend call is typically every 4th night. We adhere to the ACGME duty hour guidelines.

DIDACTIC PROGRAM

 

  •  Introduction to Psychiatry
  •  Introduction to Psychopathology

  •  Introduction to Psychopharmacology  and Neuroscience
  •  Statistics and Research Methods
  •  Inpatient Case Conference
  •  ABCs of Psychiatry for Inpatients
  •  Basic Psychotherapy
  •  Psychiatric Presentation

Classes are held during the second half

of the year for one half-day per week.

 

 


 

PROGRAM YEAR 2

CLINICAL PROGRAM

 

Months 1-6

3 Months

  •  Adult Inpatient

 2 Months

  •  Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

1 Month

  • Geriatric Psychiatry

or

  •  Addiction Psychiatry

1/2 day/week Outpatient Psychiatry    Continuity Clinic

 

Months 7-12

› 6 Months

  •  Outpatient Psychiatry
    •  Child & Adolescent
    •  Adult
    •  Acute Psychiatric Services
    •  Mental Health Center

 

The first half of the second year introduces the resident to consultation liaison psychiatry, as well as the experience of being senior resident on an inpatient team with primary patient responsibilities as well as additional supervisory roles.

One month of either addictions or geriatric psychiatry is also included in the first six months of the PGY-2 year. In addition, the resident begins an adult outpatient psychiatry clinic rotation.

The second half of the PGY-2 year emphasizes ambulatory psychiatry in various settings. The resident's time is spent in adult and child outpatient clinics learning psychiatric interviewing and practicing psychotherapy and medication management.

On average, G2-year call is approximately 30 calls over the entire G2 year.

DIDACTIC PROGRAM

 

  • Community Psychiatry
  •  Psychopathology
  •  Outpatient Case Conference
  •  Developmental Psychopathology
  •  Child Psychiatry Case Conference
  •  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry  Therapy Skills
  •  Marriage and Family Therapy
  •  Psychological and Neuropsychiatry  Assessment
  •  Introduction to Psychotherapy
  •  Psychoanalytic Case Conference
  •  Emergency Psychiatry
  •  Crisis Intervention Case  Conference
  •  ABCs of Psychiatry for Outpatient
  •  Psychopharmacology
  •  History of Psychiatry

 

Classes are held for one half-day per week for the entire year. Some lecturesare combined with the PGY-3 residents.

 

 

PROGRAM YEAR 3

CLINICAL PROGRAM

 

Months 1-6

6 Months

  • Outpatient Psychiatry

    • Child & Adolescent
    • Adult
    • Acute Psychiatric Services
    • Mental Health Center

Months 7-12

› 3 Months

  •  Adult Inpatient

› 2 Months

  •  Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

› 1 Month

  •  Geriatric Psychiatry

  or

  •  Addiction Psychiatry

1/2 day/week Outpatient Psychiatry    Continuity Clinic

The first six months of the PGY-3 year is a continuation of the outpatient clinics from the second half of the PGY-2 year.

During the second six months of the year, residents have an additional two months of consultation liaison psychiatry and three months as a senior resident on an inpatient team. One month of either addiction or geriatric psychiatry, which ever was not done in the second year, is also included during this time. One half-day of continuity clinic rounds out the schedule for this six months.

There is no call during your PGY-3 year.

DIDACTIC PROGRAM

 

  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

  •  Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  •  Group Psychotherapy
  •  Psychoanalytic Case Conference
  •  Somatic Therapy and Alternative  Treatment
  •  Addiction Psychiatry
  •  Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
  •  Forensic Psychiatry
  •  Inpatient Case Conference
  •  Process Group

Classes are held on one half-day per week for the entire year.

PROGRAM YEAR 4

CLINICAL PROGRAM

 

12 Months

  •  Elective Experiences Choices
    •  Addiction Disorders
    •  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
    •  Consultation-Liaison  Psychiatry
    •  Psychotherapy
    •  Sleep Disorders
    •  International Rotation

    (1 month)

    •  Many other opportunities

1/2 day/week Outpatient Psychiatry    Continuity Clinic

 

No call during the 12 months of elective rotations.

 

DIDACTIC PROGRAM

  • Administrative Psychiatry/Transition to Practice
  •  Advanced Psychoanalytic
     Psychotherapy
  •  Psychiatry Board Review
  •  Human Sexuality
  •  Clinic Research Applications

Classes are held one half-day

per week for the entire year.