First Post-Graduate Year (PGY-1)

The PGY-1 year is designed to introduce the resident to the essentials of medical and psychiatric care through a comprehensive program of structured clinical services, on-call experiences, and seminars. The resident focuses on the evaluation and acute management of psychiatrically ill adults and on mastering basic phenomenology, theory, and pharmacotherapeutics. The year includes four months of primary care medicine or pediatrics, two months of neurology, and six months of adult inpatient psychiatry.

Residents obtain experience in primary care medicine through rotations at the Maricopa Medical Center Departments of Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Pediatrics. Two months are spent at the Internal Medicine Outpatient Clinics or Pediatric Clinics where residents receive exposure to adult and/or pediatric cases. Residents also rotate one month each on the Internal Medicine Consult Service and in the Maricopa Medical Center Emergency Department.  Osteopathic (D.O.) residents are able, to complete an AOA-approved program rotating internship with the approval of the Program Director.

The neurology rotation occurs at Maricopa Medical Center under the direction of the neurological service. Under the supervision of attending neurologists, the resident participates in both outpatient clinics and consultations on neurological inpatients.

During the first year, didactic experiences are structured around topics in basic psychiatric diagnosis, treatment modalities, interviewing skills, and the psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and biological bases of psychiatric illness. Topics including the history of psychiatry, structure of the system of care, ethics, and forensics are taught. Residents are introduced to research methodology and literature usage during this year.

Residents participate in frequent case conferences, weekly department-wide Continuing Medical Education experiences, and Journal Club meetings.

INPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE TEACHING UNITS: Psychiatric Annex Unit 1 and various units at Desert Vista

NEUROLOGY, MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER

PRIMARY CARE MEDICINE, MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER

 

 

2nd Post-Grad Year

 

Last updated on December 16, 2009