Psychiatry Resident Scholarship in Public and Community Psychiatry

Overview

Stipend

Curriculum

Contract

Overview

The primary goal of the Psychiatry Resident Training Project in Public and Community Psychiatry is to increase the availability of quality training in public psychiatry and to encourage psychiatrists to practice in the Public and Community Sector after graduation.. Project support from the Governor and the Inspector General of Mental Health, administered by DMHMRSAS has made this possible.

This project will:

  • Provide resident psychiatrists with a strong classroom and practical experience in issues relevant to treating chronic mental illness and underserved populations in public psychiatry
  • Introduce resident psychiatrists to important topical issues in public psychiatric care and service delivery
  • Provide residents with a generous scholarship for each year they participate in the project

Stipend (Scholarship)

 

The scholarship project will award resident psychiatrists with a stipend ($17,500 currently) for each of the two years that they participate in the program. Upon completion of residency training, the resident agrees to work in a psychiatrically underserved or rural area in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The graduate psychiatrist will 'pay back' one year for each year that they participate in the scholarship program.

J1 visa, international graduates are eligible to participate in the program, but have the additional responsibility to ensure that their work site meets the federal criteria for underserved, as well.

Curriculum

 

Scholarship recipients will participate in an individualized curriculum, set up to provide a strong working knowledge of the care of patients with chronic mental illness, the community mental health system and important topical issues and trends in public psychiatry and mental health.

Sample Curriculum (in development)

General

  • All psychiatric residents at the University of Virginia will attend Grand Rounds which pertain to public and under-served psychiatry
  • All psychiatric residents will attend Continuing Medical Education sessions which will bring them into contact with community psychiatrists

PGY I

  • All psychiatric residents will have lectures, seminars, and the option of special projects pertaining to community and underserved psychiatry.

PGY II

  • All psychiatric residents will continue to receive a general education in public psychiatry
  • Potential project participants will have the opportunity to rotate through community psychiatry settings, gaining practical experience and exposure, outside of the university setting.

PGY III

  • Scholarship recipients will be placed in community settings, gaining experience in the care of mentally ill patients while utilizing the latest philosophies of community care
  • Scholarship recipients will attend lectures and seminars which will impart a complete picture of chronic mental illness, and a comprehensive understanding of community models of care. In addition there will be a supplemental reading list and discussion groups focussing on topical issues in community mental health
  • Scholarship recipients will continue to attend lectures and seminars with all other psychiatric residents

PGY IV

  • Scholarship participants will have at least one rotation in a rural underserved setting, hopefully leading to employment after graduation. In addition, they will be given time to visit and interview for prospective job sites.

Contract

 

View the resident contract for participation in the stipend program. It is an Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format. You will need Acrobat Reader to view the contract.

If you need Acrobat Reader, it is available here.

 

Gilmore Fellow in Public and Community Psychiatry at UVa

 

Edward M. Kantor, MD, an assistant professor of psychiatric medicine and attending psychiatrist, has been selected as the Gilmore Faculty Fellow for UVa. Comparable programs are underway at the other three psychiatry residencies in Virginia. This is a partially funded faculty position charged with developing an enhanced curriculum of didactic and clinical training for all psychiatric residents, in the area of public psychiatry and community mental health, and also to implement a Scholarship Program for up to four selected psychiatry residents, with expanded clinical training in chronic mental illness, and a commitment to work in psychiatrically underserved Virginia upon graduation.

The program was initiated July 1st, and thus far two residents have signed on to participate in the Scholarship Program, and several others have shown significant interest. Dr. Kantor is also organizing an Advisory Group made up of regional community mental health leaders, practicing community psychiatrists and University faculty, who will advise on curricular issues and help direct the project's course.

Year 1 (2000)

  • Promote and recruit residents to participate in the project
  • Promote and encourage faculty staff participation and acceptance of the project.
  • Liaise with Community Psychiatry providers to initiate and support resident rotations in their settings.
  • Work with the DMHMRSAS to clarify program requirements
  • Recommend and develop a summer practica program for medical students with small stipend for a Community Mental Health Experience and/or Program development.
  • Clarify locations qualifying as underserved
  • Clarify participation of Med/Psych residents and those Fellowship residents in specialties ( ex. Child, Geriatrics, Forensics) needed by underserved Mental Health programs in Virginia.
  • Develop a means of evaluating program progress and effectiveness
  • Develop more Community based rotation sites
  • Set up a project Advisory Group made up of Community Psychiatrists, a participating resident, a member of the Residency Training Committee, the Gilmore Faculy Fellow and an 'ex-officio' invitation to the Inspector General for Mental Health. The Advisory Group will assist the Gilmore Fellow in choosing program participants, developing the community curriculum and maintaining program direction.
  • Meet with Gilmore Faculty Fellows from other programs to share ideas and develop program
  • Assist the Inspector General with Inspection duties as needed.
  • Develop a Job Bank of underserved psychiatry positions in the commonwealth.

 

Medical Students

 

Summer 2000- Two rising 2nd year medical students from UVA, Jeffrey Zaidman and David Lieb, are participating in the development of the project through the medical student summer research program, and there are plans to expand community mental health opportunities for senior students as well. Their overview of their summer experiences are available here.

David Lieb

Jeff Zaidman

 

Introduction

The intent of the program is to recruit and develop medical school faculty for the mentoring of physicians-in-training toward careers in public sector psychiatry. In addition, the project is to provide an emphasis on under-served programs and populations in the Commonwealth of Virginia. A faculty member, to be recruited for this purpose, and to be known as a Gilmore Faculty Fellow, shall be given the necessary teaching, programming and mentoring time to develop a stipend program for psychiatry residents and work toward an enhanced curriculum of didactic and clinical training in the area of Public Psychiatry and Community Mental Health.  

Project Overview

The project will include a Resident Stipend Program (to be marketed as the Public & Community Psychiatry Scholarship Program), which will award a yearly stipend for two years, to a total of 4 upper level psychiatry residents per year. These residents will participate in a Public & Community Psychiatry Track within the residency training program, and upon completion of training agree, by contract, to work in an under-served or with an under-served population (specifics to be defined) in the Commonwealth of Virginia, for a two year period after graduation.

In addition to the basic requirements of the program, we propose to use this opportunity to integrate an expanded Community Psychiatry curriculum into the basic training opportunities for all residents in our psychiatry training program. We believe that the success of the program will depend upon a strong level of interest in the field of public psychiatry as well as the ability to communicate a sense of excitement and support to the students and residents who will consider participating in the program.

Residents will be placed in CSBs (Community Mental Health Centers) settings, including PACT, community clinics as well as other facilities working with designated 'underserved' populations. We will modify the third year curriculum to allow for continuity clinic experiences outside of our traditional ambulatory settings although residents will continue to participate in the Lecture and Seminar series (12 - 18 hour per week). We have made preliminary contact with several agencies who have agreed to accept residents in this manner.

Settings will provide supervised experiences in the care of severely mentally ill patients in a variety of settings, utilizing the latest philosophies of community care and medical management. Residents will attend lectures and seminars set up to impart a complete picture of chronic mental illness and comprehensive community models of care.