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Residency The Southern
Illinois University School of Medicine Psychiatry Residency Program
offers a fully accredited, four-year, eclectic
experience in community-based psychiatry. Education and training
emphasizes integrated approaches by providing extensive exposure to both
biological and psychological models, as well as multi-specialty based
healthcare.
A hallmark of our program is that each resident can expect to have a
close working relationship with faculty. Extensive, one-on-one
supervision is provided each year. As importantly, education and
training encompasses a broad range of settings and clinical populations.
An unusual feature of our program is that residents are introduced to
psychotherapeutic interventions in their first year. Progressive
clinical experience and responsibility is encouraged and directly
supported by educational programs and specialized clinical supervision.
Educational programs are given high priority. Regularly scheduled
seminars and case conferences are timed to augment clinical rotations.
Scholarly activities also address current practice issues through our
year-round series of resident conferences and faculty presentations.
Research opportunities are provided to all residents and include
clinical and basic science areas related to psychiatry in the dementias,
clinical psychopharmacology, developmental disabilities,
electroconvulsive therapy, and medical education.
SIU School of Medicine also offers a five-year, combined Internal
Medicine and Psychiatry residency training program that leads to
eligibility for Board certification in bothspecialties.
Supervision
Direct, group, and individual
supervision is provided to psychiatric residents throughout the duration
of the residency training. In addition to direct supervision with
clinical rotation supervisors, residents meet for at least two hours
weekly with training faculty for direct supervision as part of their
ongoing participation in the Psychiatry Department's Outpatient Clinic.
Two types of outpatient supervision are provided: faculty psychiatrists
provide direct medication management and combined psychopharmacology and
psychotherapy supervision, and allied mental health and psychiatric
faculty provide direct, individual psychotherapy supervision. Videotaped
sessions and direct video monitoring are frequently used modalities to
enhance the supervisory process. Supervisors are rotated annually or
semiannually, offering residents a balance of continuity and diversity
in their educational experience.
Settings and Population
Choate Mental Health and
Developmental Center:
Located near SIU Carbondale campus, in Anna, this public hospital is the
primary provider of inpatient psychiatric care in Southern Illinois.
Residents work closely with a team of faculty members to provide care to
patients of all ages, and are exposed to an unusually rich mix of acute
and chronic disorders.
Community Support Network:
This specialized community program provides extensive outpatient
psychiatric services and social support to those who have chronic mental
disorders. Residents work with the medical director, case managers,
nursing staff, and other mental health professionals to collaboratively
maintain needed continuity of care.
Locust Street Resource Center:
Located in nearby Carlinville, this rural center provides a broad range
of mental health services. Residents provide psychiatric evaluation and
treatment, as well as consultation to professional staff and community
physicians.
McFarland Mental Health Center:
This mental health hospital is a large inpatient facility operated by
the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities.
It is located on nearly 100 acres in south Springfield, and its
catchment area spans central Illinois counties. Rotations emphasize
multi-specialty team leadership and psychiatric care for adult and child
and adolescent patients with acute and chronic disorders.
Memorial Medical Center:
This private hospital is a 520-bed tertiary care facility providing
inpatient and outpatient services to the population of central and
southern Illinois. It is a regional referral center in several clinical
areas, including cancer and cardiac care, neuromuscular rehabilitation,
renal dialysis and transplantation, trauma, and burns. Psychiatric and
behavioral health services emphasize multidisciplinary inpatient
treatment teams, partial hospitalization, and outpatient care through
hospital-based programs and community-based mental health centers.
St. John's Hospital:
This general hospital is a 600 -bed tertiary care facility providing
inpatient and outpatient services to the population of central and
southern Illinois. It is a regional referral center in several clinical
areas, including cardiac care, high-risk prenatal and neonatal care,
trauma, inpatient hospice, and emergency medicine. Psychiatric and
behavioral health services include adult inpatient and geriatric
inpatient psychiatric care.
SIU-SOM Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic:
The Department's outpatient service is designed to provide general
psychiatric care to the regional population with a range of services
including psychopharmacological management, psychotherapy, group
therapy, Assertive Community Treatment, Telepsychiatry consultation, and
diagnostic evaluation and treatment planning. Child and Adolescent
psychiatric care is provided at an affiliated SIU outpatient facility,
Noll Medical Pavilion.
Jacksonville Development Center
This facility is located in Jacksonville, Illinois, 45 minutes from
Springfield’s school of medicine campus. It has 265 adult clients with
developmental disabilities housed in 5 residential buildings in a 60
acre area. The facility offers residential services but also vocational
and educational services as well as a supported employment program. The
population derives from the state of Illinois and includes all
ethnicities of ages 18 through 85 years. General psychiatry residents
attend behavioral management committee meetings and rotate through
neurology and primary care clinics. The staff includes 3 full-time
physicians, a medical director, a psychiatrist, psychologists,
registered and licensed practical nurses, social workers, QMRP’s, speech
and language therapists, and a consulting neurologist and orthopedic
surgeon. The facility has teleconferencing available for scholarly
communications and conferences with several other facilities including
the SIU Department of Psychiatry.
SIU-SOM Special Needs Clinic:
Through weekly clinics, the Department of Psychiatry's Division of
Developmental Disabilities provides psychiatric care and related support
services to individuals who have a primary diagnosis involving Mental
Retardation. Multidisciplinary teams are used to individualize care and
obtain needed social services.
Psychotherapeutic Interventions
Training and experience in providing
both long-term and time-limited psychotherapy is an integral part of the
training program. It is directly and continuously supported by seminars,
case conferences, and direct, individual supervision. An eclectic
approach is used to promote professional versatility. Residents are
exposed to a range of strategies and techniques, including supportive,
psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and other evidence-based
psychotherapeutic practices. Residents complete training to the point of
competency in supportive, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral
therapy. Training and experience emphasize the expertise needed in
current psychiatric practice, whether as the primary provider, student
of further training, a member of a multi-specialty team, or a referring
professional.
Education
Programs
The formal educational curriculum
features regularly scheduled seminars, case conferences, and
presentations that run throughout the year. Seminars follow a format
that can be lecture based, experiential, or resident directed in keeping
with the educational approach of the school and of the department that
active learning is most effective, and that all of us are lifelong
learners. In addition, PGY-3 residents participate in a journal club, an
evidence-based psychiatry case conference, a developmental disability
psychiatry case conference, and a conference on religion and psychiatry
each month. All residents are encouraged to attend special conferences
and workshops that are periodically available within the Springfield
area and financing is made available to residents for travel to and from
national conferences. Residents participate each year in presenting at
Grand Rounds to the department, school, and interested public.
SIU School of Medicine was one of the first programs in the country to
institute a Universal Issues Curriculum for the residency training
programs. This is an annual sequence of presentations open to faculty
and residents in which residents of all specialties meet and learn about
issues that are common to all specialties, such as ethics, medical
economics, lifelong learning and teaching skills, and practice
management.
Our core seminar series is designed and timed to support the residents'
level of training and experience
Categorical
Seminar Schedule (Excel spreadsheet)
Clinical Rotations
- Adult Inpatient - 10 months
- Outpatient Care - 12 months
- Adolescent Inpatient - 2 months
- Neurology - 2 months
- Community Psychiatry - 3 months
- Primary Care - 6 months
- Consultation/Liaison - 3 months
- Substance Abuse - 1 month
- Electives - 8 months
- Developmental Disabilities - 1
month
Primary Care
PGY-1 Residents are required to rotate through six months on one or a
combination of family medicine, internal medicine, or pediatric
services.
Residents are supervised by faculty from the corresponding department
and work with a resident and attending team learning the identification,
assessment, diagnosis, management, and continuity care, and further
treatment planning for a range of acute and chronic medical conditions.
The rotations generally occur in each of the general hospitals, Memorial
Medical Center and St. John's Hospital, but may involve ambulatory care
clinics held at other departmental sites. Residents take call duty with
the service on which they are rotating.
Neurology
PGY-1 Residents are required to rotate through two months of inpatient
adult neurology while being supervised by faculty from the Department of
Neurology and participating in the care of patients with a variety of
neurological acuity. Residents generally spend one month on the
inpatient neurology service at one of the general hospitals, Memorial
Medical Center and St. John's Hospital providing care to a general acute
neurologically ill population, and one month on the Neurorehabilitation
Service at Memorial Medical Center providing care to patients undergoing
post-acute care for neurological conditions such as trauma, stroke,
spinal injury or conditions, and neurodegenerative conditions. Residents
are exposed to a range of conditions that are relevant to psychiatric
differential diagnosis and which can form the border zone between
psychiatry and neurology. Residents on the inpatient neurology service
take call duty for the neurology service. Residents in neurology and
psychiatry participate in a weekly interdisciplinary case conference in
which selected cases from both services are discussed by faculty from a
variety of perspectives.
Substance Abuse
PGY-1 Residents rotate through one month on the Substance Abuse
Consultation service at Memorial Medical Center where they are trained
in the evaluation, recognition, diagnosis, and treatment planning of
inpatients with substance abuse, dependence, withdrawal, and substance
related disorders on the psychiatric, medical, and surgical services.
Residents are also trained in motivational interviewing techniques.
Supervision is provided by chemical dependency counselors who serve as
adjunct faculty in the psychiatry department.
Adult Inpatient Psychiatry
The Adult Inpatient Psychiatry rotations take place on the acute
psychiatric units of the two general hospitals in Springfield, Memorial
Medical Center and St. John's Hospital, and on the acute unit of a free
standing state-operated psychiatric hospital, Andrew McFarland Mental
Health Center. The patient population on all three units varies in ages
from 18 and upward and includes patients with a wide range of mood,
anxiety, psychotic, substance related, personality disorders, behavioral
and psychiatric disorders associated with various dementing illnesses,
and other mental disorders due to general medical conditions. Residents
gain experience in the evaluation, diagnosis, treatment planning, and
medical management of psychiatric and co-morbid medical disorders. In
addition, residents rotating at the two general hospitals interact often
with other medical and surgical services to provide integrated care.
Residents regularly interact with allied healthcare staff such as
nurses, social workers, case managers, and mental health technicians.
PGY-1 residents spend three months and PGY-2 residents spend six months
on Adult Inpatient Psychiatry rotations. During the PGY-4, residents
spend an additional one month on the Adult Inpatient Psychiatry service
in the role of chief inpatient resident. To enhance the educational and
training experience, resident caseloads are capped at 7 patients
during their Adult Inpatient Psychiatry rotations. Supervision is
provided on each rotation by psychiatry department faculty. Medical
students participate regularly on the inpatient team.
Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry
Residents rotate for one month during the PGY-2 and one month during the
PGY-4 on the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry unit located at
McFarland Mental Health Center. The patient age range is from 10 to 17
years and is drawn from a large area of central and southern Illinois.
Psychopathology includes mood disorders, attention deficit with
hyperactivity
disorder, psychotic disorders, conduct and oppositional-defiant
disorders, autistic spectrum disorders, and others. Supervision is
provided by faculty from the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division in
the psychiatry department. Residents interact frequently with allied
staff and services and are exposed to family evaluation and therapy,
forensic issues, group therapy, individual
evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment planning all within the context of
a multi-disciplinary treatment team approach. Medical students
participate regularly on the inpatient team.
Community Psychiatry
During the PGY-2, residents spend three months on the Community
Psychiatry rotation, two weeks of which is spent in the Center for
Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders. For two and a half months,
residents rotate through the Community Support Network, an Assertive
Community Treatment model of care for severe and chronic mental
disorders. Residents participate in medication management clinics, home
visits, and team meetings and are supervised by the medical director, a
department of psychiatry faculty member. This model of care delivers
wrap-around case management, nursing, and psychiatric services to
patients with diagnoses including schizophrenia, schizoaffective
disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, substance abuse
and dependence, and personality disorders. Patients who are
psychiatrically hospitalized are cared for by the faculty-resident team
to provide continuity of care. Also during the Community Psychiatry
rotation, residents attend and participate in a clinic for the
developmentally disabled population with concomitant psychiatric
disorders for one day each week where they are supervised by a faculty
from the Developmental Disabilities Division of the psychiatry
department.
Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry
Residents rotate on the Consultation/Liaison service providing
psychiatric consultation to non-psychiatric medical and surgical
services in both of the general hospitals, Memorial Medical Center and
St. John's Hospital, during the business day. PGY-2 residents spend two
months on this service and PGY-4 residents spend one month on the
service. Supervision is provided
by faculty from the medicine-psychiatry division in the Department of
Internal Medicine. Resident see a variety of psychiatric problems
including delirium, dementias, mental disorders due to a general medical
condition, substance related disorders, adjustment disorders,
personality disorders, psychological conditions affecting medical
disorders, psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, mood disorders,
evaluations of decisional capacity, and suicide attempts. Residents are
trained in evaluation, diagnosis, treatment planning, and follow-up care
in psychiatric consultation.
Outpatient Psychiatry
Residents in the PGY-3 year rotate through 12 months of Outpatient
Psychiatry in a variety of clinics including forensic, geriatric, child
and adolescent, rural mental health care, and new patient evaluation. In
addition, residents follow their own caseload of patients for
psychotherapy and psychopharmacological management. Direct supervision
occurs through the specific attending supervisor for each clinic.
Residents also receive two hours of individual supervision each week by
a clinical supervisor and a psychotherapy supervisor.
Developmental Disabilities Psychiatry
PGY-4 Residents rotate for one month at Jacksonville Development Center,
a state operated developmental disabilities facility for adults with
mental retardation and behavioral and psychiatric disorders. Residents
are supervised by two attending psychiatrists from the psychiatry
department's Division of Developmental Disabilities in the evaluation,
diagnosis, behavioral, medical, and psychopharmacological management of
a wide range of behavioral presentations. Residents also participate in
behavioral committee meetings and work with allied staff in the analysis
of behavioral data and intervention planning.
Electives
PGY-4 Residents have eight months of electives that can include further
inpatient adult or child and adolescent psychiatry, psychotherapy,
neuropsychology, neuroimaging, research, rural or state operated
facility inpatient psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, outpatient chief
resident, ECT, psychopharmacology, Consultation/Liaison, and a variety
of other electives that can include time at other institutions for
special training experiences or research. Residents continue to work
with faculty supervisors throughout this period.
Research
Opportunities
Resident Research Training
All residents participate in research within the department of
psychiatry. This includes research in a range of areas including
psychotherapy, dementias, developmental disabilities psychiatry,
psychopharmacology, epidemiology, and medical education. There are a
wide variety of research opportunities for residents throughout all four
years of training. Residents may collaborate
with others on ongoing projects in the Department or they may choose an
individual research project which can be begun early in their residency
and completed before graduation. All residents undergo training through
the Springfield Committee for Research Involving Human Subjects (SCRIHS),
an academically affiliated Institutional Review Board. A research track
is available for selected residents.
Residency Research Experiences
Residents may wish to pursue career development in basic research or as
a clinician investigator. Because of this range of interests, research
opportunities are tailored within the individual resident's program. All
residents are required to attend the Research Seminar and to select and
meet regularly with a faculty mentor for research. Resident progress in
research is aided by the coordination efforts of the psychiatry
department research nurse who monitors resident project development and
SCRIHS
training. All residents are encouraged to attend and present their
research at national meetings and conferences.
Introduction to Research in
Psychiatry Seminar
Objectives:
To become acquainted with essential steps of the research endeavor such
as experimental design, literature searching, establishing patient
contact, developingrapport and obtaining informed consent for research
activities, scientific communication,
and ethical considerations, residents participate in an 8 week seminar
during their PGY-3 given by faculty experienced in federally funded
research.
Research Track
Schedule:
Beginning in the PGY-2, selected research track residents spend two
afternoons per month developing and conducting a research study under
faculty supervision. This involves at least two hours of individual
research supervision per month with a faculty mentor. This research
track time period begins with a literature review, and includes:
- Write-up of the study and its
methods
- Completion of SCRIHS forms
- Conduct of the method
- Data gathering
- Data analysis
- Discussion write-up
- Submission for publication or
presentation
Since some studies can be completed in
one year (such as cross-sectional surveys), and others may require more
time, planning with the faculty mentor of the length and timing of the
research project will be undertaken early in the track to incorporate
the research track resident schedule, interests, need to use extra-mural
resources and travel, and background level with which they
are entering the research field.
Selection:
Residents who are interested in pursuing the research track should make
this interest known during the first nine months of their PGY-1,
although consideration will be given to those deciding as late as during
the first three months of the PGY-2. Residents will be considered and
accepted into the research track based on successful completion of the
PGY-1 rotations and didactic courses and after obtaining a faculty
research mentor. Continuation in the research track will be contingent
upon the maintenance of a
satisfactory to outstanding academic record, continued successful
completion of the ongoing clinical rotations, continued timely progress
in the achievement of specific therapy competencies, continued
satisfactory progress in the research track as evaluated by the faculty
mentor, and the continued desire on the part of the resident.
Goals:
- Understanding the nature of
ordinary clinical research in psychiatry such as common strengths,
weaknesses, biases, errors, difficulties, and generalizability.
- Developing basic problem-solving
skills to interpret the medical and psychiatric clinical research
literature, to collaborate in a clinical trial, to report
instructive cases or small studies in medical journals or at
national meetings, and to be able to collaborate in the development
of an original research protocol.
- Developing basic skills in
designing and conducting small clinical research studies, and in
collaborating on large clinical research studies.
- Preparing for a career in academic
psychiatry through familiarity with trends in research, the work of
several clinical research scholars, and potential areas for new
research and development.
Objectives:
- By collaborating with a faculty
supervisor on an original scholarly research project the resident
will develop skills in:
- Generating research study
goals, objectives, and hypotheses
- Conducting basic hypothesis
testing (i.e., statistical analysis)
- Interpreting the analysis of
original data
- Presenting original results
- Collaborating with other
researchers including other residents depending on the size of
the study.
- By attending and interacting in
research supervision, by supervised study, and by participating in
research-oriented seminars and conferences, the resident will learn:
- The basic character of
scholarly clinical research
- The nature of evidence and its
relationship to scientific research
- The nature of the clinical
research business and roles within it
- The meaning of statistical
testing and statistical significance
- Some basic methods of
statistical testing
- The place of publishing
qualitative scholarship such as reviews and case reports
- Expectations in the use of
human subjects in research
- Common study designs in
clinical research
- Common rating scales in
psychiatric clinical research
- Subject selection bias.
Internal
Medicine / Psychiatry - (medpsych
website)
Division of Medicine Psychiatry
Medicine Psychiatry is a branch of medicine which provides care to the
patients with problems at the interface of adult general medicine and
adult psychiatry. Patients for whom we care, are afforded a high level
of care that can encompass primary care delivery, psychiatric care or a
combination of both.
Our goal is to provide and advance quality health care to patients with
psychiatric, medical and combined illness while assisting in the
improvement of skill and knowledge of the residents and students we
teach.
General
Information
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); The Mental Health Centers of
Central Illinois, all located within Springfield and Jacksonville
Development Center in Jacksonville, Illinois comprise the officially
affiliated training sites for psychiatry residents.
TYPICAL SCHEDULE:
First Year Resident
- Primary Care: 6 months
- Adult Inpatient Psychiatry: 3
months
- Neurology: 2 months
- Substance Abuse: 1 month
- Acute Care Psychiatric Clinic: 4
months
Second Year Resident
- Adult Inpatient/Rural or Urban: 6
months
- Inpatient Electroconvulsive
Therapy: 1 month
- Child and Adolescent Inpatient: 1
month
- Community Psychiatry: 2.5 months
- Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and
Related Disorders: 2 weeks
- Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry: 2
months
Third Year Resident
- Outpatient Psychiatry: 12 months
- Geriatric Psychiatry
Outpatient Clinic: 6 months
- Child and Adolescent
Outpatient Clinic: 6 months
- Forensic Clinic
- New Patient Evaluation and
Disposition Conference
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:
Psychiatry residents, while rotating on psychiatric services, cover the
inpatient psychiatric services, the emergency departments, seclusion and
restraint evaluations, and emergent consultation-liaison requests during
the on-call period. Residents work in concert with the emergency
department staff and the Psychiatric Response Team (PRT) personnel to
provide psychiatric consultation and management routinely until11:00pm
each night. Psychiatry residents take call from home but there are call
rooms available within the affiliated general hospitals for those
residents wishing to stay there.
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
LIBRARY FACILITIES:
SIU School of Medicine Library; open 90 hours/week. Affiliated Hospital
Libraries available 24 hours per day. Photocopying; Interlibrary Loans;
Medline search, MDConsult, On-Line eBooks, Electronic Journals, computer
terminal access, hardcopy magazine, journal, book, videotape and
audiotape loans are available. Each resident conference room within the
general hospitals has a library of useful reference texts on Emergency
Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Electroconvulsive Therapy,
Psychopharmacology, Neurology, and Psychiatry. The resident workroom has
it’s own library of various journals and texts and the departmental
library boasts hundreds of texts and current journal collections in the
field of medicine, forensic psychiatry, community psychiatry, general
psychiatry, and neuropsychiatry. The department site provides wireless
internet and intranet services.
2010-2011 SALARIES
- PGY I: $47,348.00
- PGY II: $47,700.00
- PGY III: $49,200.00
- PGY IV: $53,175.00
- PGY V: $55,345.00
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 3 weeks of vacation and 7 calendar days
of educational leave.
Resident Vacation Policy
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.
Program Match
Requirements
Thank you for your
interest in the Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine,
Department of Psychiatry residency training program in Springfield,
Illinois.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
- Applications must be received by the Residency Training Office by October 30th of the year prior to the starting year.
- Interviews are generally scheduled on Fridays, from November through January. Interviews last the entire day to allow candidates the opportunity to meet with a number of faculty and residents and to visit various clinical sites.
- Final selection decisions are made by the Psychiatry Residency Admissions Committee. We do not offer positions or make any binding commitments to candidates before the results of the Match are known.
- Graduates (within seven years) of accredited national or international medical schools are eligible to apply
- Participate in ERAS (the Electronic Residency Application Service).
- USMLE or COMLEX scores of 80 or above (However, if your scores are lower than 80 and you have post-graduate training or experience in psychiatry, your application may still be considered.
- 3 letters of recommendation from physicians (at least two of which must be from a psychiatrist with whom you have worked clinically)
- Dean's letter
- Transcript
- Scores
- Step 1 and Step 2 must be passed within 1st two attempts
- Passing step 3 is preferred but not required (must be passed within 1st two attempts).
- Having U.S. clinical experience in psychiatry or previous postgraduate training in psychiatry is preferred but not required.
- Foreign citizens who wish to enter the United States for postgraduate training must comply with United States immigration laws, in addition to following the application procedures described above. Foreign medical school graduates should contact the Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 [215-386-5900]) for details concerning their requirements.
- A strong command of the English language is a prerequisite.
- Pre-match positions are not offered
- During the interview process, a pre-test is administered to determine applicant's psychological mindness towards the problems described by a patient with Mental Illness.
For more information on
anything listed above please contact the Residency Office at
217-545-7627.
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