Psych Intern year

[osiris3]

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I was just curious how the non-psych portion of the first year works. How involved are psych residents on the medicine, peds, family or ER services. DO they rotate with the residents in those fields or are they grouped together...any info would be great.

 

[sb_MD]

They are grouped with all the other interns. For example, when rotating in internal medicine, a team could be composed of interns from psych, internal med, or transitional/prelim year etc. Everyone is on pretty much equal playing fields in the beginning.

 

[Molecule]

Where I'm going for residency, the first year is divided as follows:

6 months Psych
4 months Internal Medicine (2 of them inpatient)
2 months Neurology

There is a good deal of variation here, from program to program. East Coast schools, for instance, tend to require at least 6 months of Internal Medicine (and at places like Harvard, most (if not all) of those are inpatient months--including time spent managing patients on the ICU).

 

[Koko]

Often psych interns are subject to increased skepticism regarding their medical knowledge. The good news is that as a result, it's easier for them to impress.

 

[Teufelhunden]

My program (Navy - Portsmouth) consists of the following:

5 months Psych
2 months Neuro
2 months Internal Med
1 month CCU
1 month Family Practice
2 weeks Gynecology
2 weeks Ortho

Seems similar to most programs, with the exception that military internships attempt to make us 'well-rounded' enough to serve as GMOs after internship, hence the FP/Gyn/Ortho.

 

[Dpayne]

My program requires 4 months of inpatient medicine (with the option of doing 2 months of that on a peds or FP service I believe) and 7 months of psych with 4 weeks of vacation making up the other month block. We do neuro for 2 months (one of which is a neurobehavior rotation) as second years.

 

[tom_jones]

I don't have any first hand experience, but I imagine its alot of "tell me about your mother" and long coffee breaks

 

[GMO2003]

My program (Navy - Portsmouth) consists of the following:

5 months Psych
2 months Neuro
2 months Internal Med
1 month CCU
1 month Family Practice
2 weeks Gynecology
2 weeks Ortho

Seems similar to most programs, with the exception that military internships attempt to make us 'well-rounded' enough to serve as GMOs after internship, hence the FP/Gyn/Ortho.

what's up with the 2 months of ortho...it sounds like the program director is getting an extra month of slave labor...wtf is an extra month of ortho going to add to a psyche resident's knowledge on psyche?

 

[Teufelhunden]

what's up with the 2 months of ortho...it sounds like the program director is getting an extra month of slave labor...wtf is an extra month of ortho going to add to a psyche resident's knowledge on psyche?

Re-read my post....2 weeks of ortho and 2 weeks of gyn.

I guess the 2 weeks of ortho is outpatient (thank God). I think these requirements are an effort to make us all GMO-ready (?)