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Hi everyone,
I hope you could clear up my confusion as a lowly MS2.
I wondered if almost all psych res programs are 4 years, and the 1st is the "intern" year. About the intern year--is it a time when you rotate through different specialties and do work there as a general "doctor"?? For examples: are you called upon to do months in family medicine and treat wounds, ingrown toenails, heart problems, and all sorts of other medical maladies generally unrelated to psychiatry? Called into OBGYN to help deliver? Spending several other months on the ER in the hospital, etc, etc?? If not, what are you doing during that intern 1st year?
As for the type of therapy you are taught, does anyone attend a residency in which med-management and cog-behavioral approaches take a back seat to psychotherapy--and especially non-Freudian psychotherapy. For example, I know that the existential psychiatrist Dr. Yallom is at Stanford. Or was. Does that mean there is a strong emphasis on philosophical, meaning-based therapies there??
Thanks a lot for your help guys. These posts and your taking the time to answer make all the difference.
I hope you could clear up my confusion as a lowly MS2.
I wondered if almost all psych res programs are 4 years, and the 1st is the "intern" year. About the intern year--is it a time when you rotate through different specialties and do work there as a general "doctor"?? For examples: are you called upon to do months in family medicine and treat wounds, ingrown toenails, heart problems, and all sorts of other medical maladies generally unrelated to psychiatry? Called into OBGYN to help deliver? Spending several other months on the ER in the hospital, etc, etc?? If not, what are you doing during that intern 1st year?
As for the type of therapy you are taught, does anyone attend a residency in which med-management and cog-behavioral approaches take a back seat to psychotherapy--and especially non-Freudian psychotherapy. For example, I know that the existential psychiatrist Dr. Yallom is at Stanford. Or was. Does that mean there is a strong emphasis on philosophical, meaning-based therapies there??
Thanks a lot for your help guys. These posts and your taking the time to answer make all the difference.