The outline of clinical experiences during the four years of psychiatry postgraduate training is as follows:

First Post Graduate Year (PGY-1):

• 6 months Adult Inpatient Psychiatry 
• 3 months Internal Medicine or Family Medicine 
• 1 month Emergency Medicine 
• 1 month Emergency Psychiatry
• 1 month Neurology

Second Post Graduate Year (PGY-2):

• 2 months Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• 2 months Inpatient Psychiatry at Community Site (Twin Valley Psychiatric System)
• 2 months Emergency Psychiatry (part-time)
• 2 months Electroconvulsive Therapy (part-time)
• 1 month Geriatric Inpatient Psychiatry
• 1 month Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry 
• 1 month Addiction Psychiatry
• 1 month Neurology
• 1/2 day per week Outpatient Psychiatry for six months
• 1 month elective experience (part-time)

Third Post Graduate Year (PGY-3):

• 12 months Outpatient Psychiatry 

Fourth Post Graduate Year (PGY-4):

• 4-6 months Electives
• 3 months Consultation/Liason Psychiatry
• 2 months Partial Hospitalization (part-time) 
• 1-2 months Emergency Psychiatry (part-time)
• 1 month Community Psychiatry
• 1 month Forensic Psychiatry
• 1/2 day per week Outpatient Psychiatry

The Department of Psychiatry also offers a five-year program for residents intending to complete dual general psychiatry and subspecialty child and adolescent psychiatry training.  The rotation schedule is modified for residents with these career goals.  Combine general and child and adolescent subspecialty training is also available through five-year and six-year pathway.

The clinical experiences are flexible and designed to meet the individual resident's educational needs.  For example, pathways are available to meet Doctor of Osteopathy requisite training, research integration, advanced psychotherapy training, etc.

Residents participate in outpatient experiences at hospital-based and community sites during the second, third, and fourth years.  Our affiliated sites include the Veterans Administration and Twin Valley Psychiatric System.

There are three fellowship opportunities at OSU available to psychiatry residents.  The Department of Psychiatry offers fellowship training in child & adolescent psychiatry.  In addition, fellowship opportunities are offered in sleep medicine and in pain and palliative medicine through the OSU Departments of Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology, respectively.

• Schedule
  • PGY 1 - in house call about 4 times per month 
    • first 2 calls are supervised by PGY3 residents
    • all calls are psychiatry calls, even while doing outside rotations
  • PGY 2 - in house call about 1-2 times per month
  • PGY 3 - in house call about 1 time per month
  • PGY 4 - no call
  • Weekday calls begin at 5 p.m. and end at 8 a.m
    
    
• Call Room and Suite:  Located within the Neurosciences building for quick access.  Repainted and redecorated in 2002-2003. Includes bathroom, couch, computer, television, mini-fridge, microwave.  
  
  
• Assistance of Psychiatric Intake Department:  Mental health clinicians are nurses or social workers who work with residents while on call and during their emergency psychiatry rotations.  The clinicians are invaluable resources to residents and patients by helping facilitate admissions and discharges; coordinating insurance and payment arrangements; obtaining collateral information; and assisting with various social, logistical, and unanticipated aspects of the psychiatric assessment process.