Where resources to use and what to do to get into psych residency

[PreMedAdAG]

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FIRST OF ALL I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO CHANGE THE TITLE OF MY POST - so sorry for the weird grammar issue in the title 🙂

Hello - okay - thankfully my psych decision was easy to make - but I'm a third year - not even half way done with my rotations and I find myself totally bored and just wanted to do psych related stuff (I'm the lame-o who's like, "oh i'll take the guy who tried to commit suicide" on the medicine rotation - b/c well I feel at home when those people are around - kinda sick huh?)

Anyway - now that I've made a decision - what the heck do I do? How should I set up my AIs next year, should I do research, how can I get an "in" with a program I really like? I love the school I'm at - really wouldn't want to move to be honest - well anyway - any advice on my next steps to improve my chances of getting in - please send it my way - thanks!

 

[PreMedAdAG]

no advice out there on how to be a successful psychiatry applicant?😕

 

[manwhoisthursdy]

My advice to you is to go through old posts, read sticky posts, and just search a browse different topics. There's a lot of great advice (and not so great advice too, so read carefully) on this forum.

You asked kind of a wide-open question ... don't be surprised that no one wants to write a book for you!

Best of luck to you.

 

[BabyPsychDoc]

do a search. this topic has been done to death on this forum. also, do a search for sga430 posts: he had a blog and put out a lot of info on "how to become a psych resident". his advice may be too IMG-specific, though...

 

[whopper]

I've written plenty of posts and yes I know its a pain searching through old ones.

My best advice I can give without typing everything over is go for a program with a good mix of everything.
Clinical (inpatient unit, involuntary, voluntary, outpatient, rural vs urban)
Academic: Good teaching, what is the board pass rate?
Fellowship: do graduates get into good fellowships?
research: if you're interested in it, even if you're not a program with good research makes you appreciate the data you study better.

Lifestyle: how many hrs do you work a week, call schedule, what's it like in the area)

Ask the residents how they feel about the program. They'll usually give you the "real" story since interviewers often sell the program.