Supervision Residents are expected to follow selected patients long term. All residents are assigned a minimum of two supervisors in each year of training. Additional supervisors are assigned depending on the clinical rotation. All residents also are assigned a preceptor to discuss non-supervisory resident issues.
Individual supervision of a trainee by a faculty member provides the psychiatric resident an opportunity to review in detail the patients with whom they are working. Our program offers the opportunity to explore diagnostic and treatment issues and allows a resident to focus on the details of the psychological essential aspect to individual and family clinical work even while prescribing medications.
Resident Participation We believe that resident input is crucial to the smooth functioning of the program. Hence, there is a resident representative from each year's class on the Curriculum Committee. Residents also actively participate in interviewing applicants. Finally, residents regularly review all rotations and courses, with feedback to the faculty and service chiefs and participate in an annual retreat to review the curriculum. The Chief Residents are the principal liaisons between residents and faculty. As such, they also attend the Department's Administrative Committee meeting and meet weekly with the Residency Director and Associate Director on both an individual and group basis. Finally, residents meet each week at a luncheon business meeting led by the Chief Residents.
On Call The Psychiatric Crisis Service and Admission Center at the Milwaukee County Health Division is an active emergency psychiatry intervention program with 11,000 visits per year. Residents learn how to make emergency and initial assessments, sharpen their diagnostic skills, and perform emergency recommendations for care. PGY-I residents have a one-month immersion month. PGY-III and PGY-IV residents have an average of 2 overnight calls per month. Required call takes place on Monday through Thursday nights. Two residents and one staff psychiatrist are on call on the same night. Work flow usually diminishes to permit 4 hours of sleep for each on call psychiatrist. Residents must leave by 2 pm on post call days.