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MCW Central Wisconsin Psychiatry Residency Program Clinical Rotations

Additional Information | Paid Time Off
As WiNC employees, residents receive twenty (20) days of combined vacation and sick time plus five (5) education days. For more information on time away, please see the WiNC employee handbook.

MCW-Central Wisconsin Recruitment Frequently Asked Questions (PDF)

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PGY1 Curriculum
The PGY 1 year is designed to provide a solid foundation with clinical experience in medicine, neurology, addiction, inpatient psychiatry, and community psychiatry.
PGY2 Curriculum

The PGY 2 year is dedicated to outpatient psychiatric practice treating acutely and chronically ill patients. Residents will gain competence performing psychiatric evaluations, creating formulations, establishing working diagnoses and differentials, constructing treatment plans using medication and psychotherapies, forming and maintaining therapeutic alliances, and dealing with the ups and downs of long-term outpatient care. Residents are expected to bring a select number of patients into their Continuity Clinics ½ day/week held throughout their PGY 3 and 4 years.

PGY3 Curriculum

Residents return to month long rotations as PGY 3’s, while continuing their Continuity Clinics. Rotation selections range more broadly, allowing residents to gain experience working in a number of our field’s subspecialties and consider fellowship applications. Rotations include Forensics, CL, Child and Adolescent, Geropsychiatry, and Emergency psychiatry. We work to make electives possible.

PGY4 Curriculum
The last year of training brings continued clinical duties and greater opportunities for teaching, supervising, and leadership. PGY 4’s typically take more electives as they continue to explore the field, get to know the region’s systems and networks, and decide on future goals.

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