The Ohio State Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health provides an exceptional setting for involvement in high-quality patient care, excellent research, and outstanding educational opportunities.
Things to Know
- Program growth: class size of 15 PGY 1 residents admitted annually
- One of the 15 residency positions is a dedicated research position, allowing the resident to devote significant time to research while completing residency requirements within 4 years.
- 3/2 Adult/Child & Adolescent Training with Nationwide Children’s Hospital
- Four fellowships: addiction medicine and child & adolescent, consultation-liaison, and forensic psychiatry
- Each year, over half of all residents have national presentations, publications, research involvement
- ACGME Commended Status and high ABPN board passage rate
We are committed to ensuring each resident experiences the following:
- Experienced Faculty
- Five psychodynamically trained faculty physicians
- Multiple PhD psychologists
- Classes for each PGY year
- Introduction, Supportive, CBT, Psychodynamic, DBT, couples/sex therapy, family therapy
- PGY 3 year
- 4 hours weekly psychotherapy clinic (4 of ~30 hours of clinical contact/week devoted exclusively to psychotherapy patients)
- CBT supervisors: individual and group meetings 3x monthly
- Psychodynamic therapy: individual and group meetings weekly
- Process group Friday Mornings
- PGY 4 electives with Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center and Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute
- Manageable night float schedules, adherence to duty hours
- Wellness sessions, two annual retreats, Mindfulness in Motion program
- PGY 2/PGY 1 mentoring ‘buddy’ program and resident-led process groups
- Internal incentive opportunities
- Generous professional development stipends for examinations, meetings, resources
- Psychiatry call, even when on medicine rotations
- Higher education opportunities: MBA, M Ed, MPH
- Departmental, GME, OSUWMC, OSU groups and leadership opportunities
- Eligibility for maternity and paternity leave benefits day one
- Investment in personalized learning
- Four weeks (twenty days) of vacation annually, flexible use permitted
Departmental Activities (for residents and faculty)
- Monthly Diversity Journal Club
- Grand Rounds and Invited Speakers
- Workshops: Gender Inclusivity, Anti-Racism, Safe Zone Project
- OSU Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Diversity Committee
- Implicit Bias Training
Residency Classes
- Diversity Book Club
- History of Psychiatry
- Ethics in Psychiatry
- Stigma and Addiction
- Social Determinants of Health
- Intro: Micro-aggression in the Healthcare Setting
- Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Populations
- Psychosis, Mood disorders and suicide, adverse childhood events
Clinical Rotations and Community Engagement
- PrimaryOne Health
- Veterans Administration (VA)
- Volunteering at Free Clinic or other sites
- Community project with The Peer Center (nutrition counseling)
- Opportunities for research and presentations at national meetings (most recently North American Refugee Health Conference)
Committees and Special Interest
- OSUWMC Global Health Interest Group
- OSU GME IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity Advisory) Committee
- OSU GME Second-Look Recruitment Initiative
In addition to providing care in traditional inpatient, emergency, and ambulatory settings, our residents work with sub-populations and diverse settings, including:
- Telehealth
- Neurotherapeutics (ECT, TMS, ketamine)
- Alternative & integrative medicine
- Collaborative care
- Community mental health centers, state hospital (TVBH), and Veterans Administration
- Correctional psychiatry
- Developmental disabilities across the lifespan (Nisonger Center)
- Eating disorders (one week during PGY 2 year)
- International and rural rotations
- Neuropsychiatry (two-weeks in PGY 2 year)
- Medicine rotations in family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics
- Pet therapy (OSU Counseling & Consultation Services)
- Sports psychiatry
Hear from our Assistant and Associate Program Directors
Dr. Blessing Igboeli - APD Introduction
Dr. Samar McCutcheon - Outpatient
Hear from a current Psychiatry Resident
Psychiatry Residents from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center describe in their own words why their own words why they chose Ohio State for their residency.
