University of Virginia Health System

Second Year

Building on the foundation of theinternship year, the second year program further exposes the residents to avariety of training situations and opportunities in psychiatry. Residents continue their inpatient training at the University Hospital, Martha Jefferson Hospital and Western State Hospital for a total of nine to ten months of adult inpatient psychiatry. Didactic sessions continue one morning a week as inthe first year.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Residents spend eight weeks treating child and adolescent patients at the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents, a state psychiatric hospital in Staunton, VA. Residents participate in multidisciplinary patient evaluations, and are introduced to techniques of group, family, individual and pharmacologic therapies for children and adolescents. Topics of twice weekly seminars include development, psychodynamictheory and management of specific clinical problems.

Consultation-Liaison and EmergencyPsychiatry

The consultation-liaison service provides residents with a two to four month experience in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric problems in patients who are also being treated for other illnesses. This service sees approximately 1800 patients per year with a variety of diagnoses.  Residents on this rotation also staff the University Emergency Room, gaining experience in the diagnosis and management of psychiatric emergencies and the interface of the university and the public mental health system. Residents on acute services receive training in the evaluation and management of acute intoxication and withdrawal.