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
- Two spots in the residency position are dedicated research posts that allow the residents to devote significant time to research while completing residency requirements within four 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:
More about the program
- 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
- Manageable night float schedules, adherence to duty hours
- Wellness sessions, two annual retreats, Mindfulness in Motion program
- 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
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 healthcare centers, Central Ohio Behavioral Health (the state mental healthcare hospital) and the Veterans Administration
- Correctional psychiatry
- Developmental disabilities across the lifespan (Nisonger Center)
- International and rural rotations
- Neuropsychiatry clinic in PGY3 year
- College Mental Health clinical experience through OSU Counseling and Consultation Services
- Sports psychiatry