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GOAL:
The four year psychiatry residency is designed to prepare its graduates to
pursue any of the possible career tracks of the psychiatrist from general
psychiatry to subspecialization, and from private practice to academics.
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY FACULTY:
Twenty-eight faculty (full-time and part-time) and 75 volunteer faculty
members.
AFFILIATED HOSPITALS:
St. John's Hospital (750 beds); Memorial Medical Center (600 beds); McFarland
Mental Health Center (146 beds), all in Springfield, and Choate Mental Health
Center (300 beds), in Anna, Illinois.
TYPICAL SCHEDULE:
First Year Resident
- Primary Care: 6 months
- Adult Inpatient Psychiatry: 3 months
- Neurology: 2 months
- Chemical Dependency: 1 month
Second Year Resident
- Adult Inpatient/Rural or Urban: 6 months
- Child and Adolescent Inpatient: 1 month
- Community Psychiatry: 3 months
- Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry: 2 months
Third Year Resident
- Outpatient Psychiatry: 12 months
Fourth Year Resident
- Adult Inpatient Chief Resident: 1 month
- Child and Adolescent Inpatient: 1 month
- Developmental Disabilities Psychiatry: 1 month
- Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry: 1 month
- Electives: 8 months
CALL:
First Year:
- Primary Care/Neurology: 6-8 nights per month
- Psychiatry call from home: 6 nights per month
Second Year:
- Psychiatry call from home: 5 nights per month
Third Year:
- Psychiatry call from home: 4 nights per month
Fourth Year:
Meals are provided free of charge for all residents on in-house call.
POSITIONS OFFERED:
Three categorical positions are offered each resident year. Please contact
the Residency Office for further information. The number is 217-545-7627.
COMBINED PROGRAMS:
The Department of Psychiatry in combination with the Department of Internal
Medicine offers an accredited program in Medicine-Psychiatry (5 years). For
more information, contact the Residency Office at 217-545-4234.
PATIENT POPULATION:
Primary service area - Springfield and vicinity (population 160,000)
Referral area - Central and Southern Illinois (population (2,000,000)
Residents care for patients from all socioeconomic, racial, gender, and age
groups
THERE IS NO SCUT WORK!
Ward clerks, lab techs (phlebotomists), ECG techs, respiratory therapists,
X-ray transporters, and other ancillary personnel are available 24 hours per
day. Nurses start all peripheral IV lines.
DIDACTICS:
Progressive, innovative, organized seminar curriculum
Grand Rounds, Resident Conferences, Journal Club, Case Conferences
Residents have active role in teaching medical students
ELECTIVES OFFERED:
Include chief residency, research, child and adolescent psychiatry, alzheimer's
disease, developmental disabilities, geriatric psychiatry, forensic psychiatry,
psychiatric education, and others, as well as most subspecialties in medicine,
neurology, or pediatrics.
LIBRARY FACILITIES:
SIU School of Medicine Library; open 90 hours/week. Affiliated Hospital
Libraries available 24 hours per day. Photocopying; Medline search, MD
Consult, book, videotape and audiotape loans are available; for those with a
personal computer, modem hook up to Medline searches is available.
2006-2007 SALARIES
- First Year Resident: $42,770.00
- Second Year Resident: $44,400.00
- Third Year Resident: $45,715.00
- Fourth Year Resident: $47,595.00
BENEFITS:
- Health insurance is available at a minimal charge; optional family plan
can be purchased.
- Dental coverage is provided for the resident and family at a small fee.
- Basic life insurance is provided at no cost; additional coverage may be
purchased.
- Basic disability insurance is provided at no cost; additional disability
insurance is available.
- Professional Liability insurance is provided through the employing hospital.
VACATION/EDUCATIONAL LEAVE:
All residents receive 21 calendar days of vacation and 7 calendar days of
educational leave.
HOUSING:
There is a wide variety of affordable housing in all areas of town. Past
arrangements made by SIU residents include apartment or house rental, and
purchase of condominium or house.
SIU DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY REQUIRES AN INTERVIEW WITH ALL
PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT Vivian Smith.
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