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FIRST POSTGRADUATE YEAR
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4 Months
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2 Months
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2 Months
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2 Months
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2 Months
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| Primary Care (Internal Medicine, Pediatrics or combo) |
General Neurology plus a selective |
Presbyterian Psychiatry (General Inpatient, Eating Disorders Unit) |
Parkland Psychiatry Emergency Service |
VA General Inpatient |
Our PGY-I translates the knowledge of the undergraduate medical years into clinical skills through supervised experience in the care of psychiatric and general medical patients. It begins with a "crash" course to orient the new interns. Four months are spent at Presbyterian Hospital on internal medicine (two months of wards, one month of ER, and one month Medicine subspecialty consultation services). Interns have the option of substituting 1-2 months of medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital. They may also substitute inpatient and outpatient pediatrics for internal medicine, either wholly or in a combination of the two specialties. In addition, there are two months of neurology at Parkland Memorial Hospital (PMH). One month is on the General Neurology Service where the intern spends half of his/her time doing hospital consultations and the other half caring for a wide variety of inpatients. The second month is selective. The resident may spend the month on the Stroke Unit, the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, Child Neurology or do a second month on the General Neurology service.
The remainder of the first year includes two months of psychiatry at Presbyterian Hospital (one month of inpatient, and one month of eating disorders unit), two months of emergency psychiatry at Parkland, and two months of inpatient psychiatry at the VA. Each service has an extensive on site didactic program.
Core didactics occur on Wednesdays, noon to 4 PM and consist of a general survey of all aspects of psychiatry, especially featuring most of our faculty so the intern can get to know the department better.
First year residents are assigned faculty advisors with whom they meet every three months (or more frequently if necessary or if wished) to discuss any training or professional issues they wish. The training director holds a late afternoon reception (we call it "The Training Director's Report") exclusively for the PGY 1's four times during the year. Each new resident is assigned a "Big Sib" from among the more senior residents. The Big Sib is an important source of connection to the resident group and a fountain of knowl?edge about "how things work."
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