Clinical Rotations

Overview

Our Psychiatry Residency Program provides a comprehensive, competency-based clinical curriculum that progressively builds residents' skills across inpatient, outpatient, consultation-liaison, community, and subspecialty psychiatry. Rotations are designed to provide broad clinical exposure while emphasizing evidence-based care, psychotherapy, research, and increasing resident autonomy throughout training.


Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY-1)

Rotation Duration
Family Medicine Wards 1 month
Internal Medicine 2 months
Emergency Medicine 1 month
Neurology 2 months
Inpatient Psychiatry 6 months

Post-Graduate Year 2 (PGY-2)

Rotation Duration
Emergency Psychiatry 1 month
Sleep Medicine 1 month
Addiction Psychiatry 1 month
Forensic Psychiatry 2 months
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 3 months
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry 4 months

Post-Graduate Year 3 (PGY-3)

Rotation Duration
Outpatient Psychiatry 12 months
Community Psychiatry 12 months
Research 12 months
Psychotherapy 12 months

Post-Graduate Year 4 (PGY-4)

Rotation Duration
Outpatient Psychiatry 12 months
Psychiatry Board Preparation 12 months
Electives  6 months
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (Senior role) 2 months
Business of Medicine 2 weeks

Electives (PGY-4) (6 months)

Residents in their fourth year have the flexibility to customize their training with a variety of elective options:

  • Administrative/Academic Psychiatry
  • Consultations Liaison
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Inpatient Psychiatry (Junior Attending)
  • Addiction/Forensic Psychiatry
  • Geriatric psychiatry
  • Research
  • Other national/international experiences
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
  • Collaborative Care Model
  • Neuropsychiatry
  • Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program

Transmountain Campus Psychiatry Residency Program