About the MCW Northeastern Wisconsin Psychiatry Residency Program
Our Goal
It is the goal of the Northeastern Wisconsin Psychiatry Program to produce psychiatrists who are well prepared to meet the mental health needs of patients in rural Wisconsin and beyond. We will develop psychiatrists who will be:
– competent in psychiatric symptom identification, mental health diagnosis, and a wide range of medical and therapy interventions;
– providers with high ethical standards, who are able to recognize their own limitations and biases and employ self improvement strategies for the benefit of themselves, their patients, and their profession;
– active collaborators with non-physician therapists, social workers, nurses, and providers of other disciplines in the provision of high quality, fully encompassing, cost effective health care;
– advocates for their patients, and for a just mental health care system
Vision and Distinguishing Features
Experience Matters
Clinical Rotation Sites
Bellin Health
The Bellin Health Psychiatric Center is an 80-bed psychiatric hospital that provides inpatient and outpatient service for children, adolescents, and adults. Bellin is one of the only private, freestanding psychiatric hospitals in Brown County. Emergency and inpatient services are offered 24 hours per day. Inpatient, partial hospitalization, and day treatment are provided at its main facility located in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
A full range of outpatient services including crisis management; individual, couples and family therapy; substance abuse services; and employee assistance programs are offered at the main location as well as a number of locations throughout northeastern Wisconsin. All services are certified by the state of Wisconsin, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
Brown County Community Treatment Center
The Brown County Community Treatment Center is a county-operated and state-licensed inpatient psychiatric hospital and nursing home with an average census of 80. The center is part of the Brown County Human Services Department, which provides comprehensive programming for adults with mental health issues who lack the resources to obtain services elsewhere in the community.
Consumers work with a multi-disciplinary team to identify their needs and develop treatment plans that reduce the need for hospitalization and maintain the least restrictive living environment. Services include, but are not limited to: Case Management Services, Comprehensive Community Services Program, Substance Abuse Services, Outpatient Psychiatric Services, and Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitalization.
Milo C. Huempfner VA Health Care Center
The Milo C. Huempfner VA Health Care Center is located in Green Bay, Wisconsin and recently opened its doors in late 2012. The two-story Green Bay clinic has 161,525 square feet, 1,200 parking spaces, and is one of the largest VA outpatient clinics in the country. In addition to Behavioral Care, it provides; telehealth, radiology, laboratory, pharmacy, prosthetics, rehab medicine PT/OT, podiatry, optometry, ophthalmology, dialysis, audiology, speech, dental, and outpatient surgery services, among others.
The Behavioral Health Department employs psychiatrists, psychologists, licensed social worker therapists, case managers, peer support specialists, and nursing and support staff. In addition to medication management, the clinic provides group and individual therapies, AODA treatment, and an extensive list of evidenced based therapies, including, CBT (anxiety, depression, chronic pain, insomnia), CPT, and PE, among others.
Prevea Health
Founded in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1996, Prevea Health is a health care organization that provides high-quality, primary and specialty health care in 80+ locations across Northern, Eastern and Western Wisconsin in clinic and hospital settings. It is partnered with six Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) hospitals across Wisconsin to provide patients a system of highly coordinated care.
Prevea Behavioral Care is a state-certified outpatient mental health and substance use disorders clinic with locations throughout eastern Wisconsin. Prevea Behavioral Care’s goal is to help patients become well and stay well by focusing on the full spectrum of factors that affect each patient’s overall health. Available services include individual, marital, family and group therapy; adult, child and adolescent psychiatry; medication management; psychological testing; biofeedback; substance use disorders assessment and treatment; and an employee assistance program (EAP). Prevea has also added rTMS services; we are hopeful that our residents will have exposure to this service moving forward.
Rogers Behavioral Health
For more than 110 years, Rogers has been helping people rise above the challenges of mental illness, addiction, and stigma to lead healthy lives and rediscover hope.
Rogers is a not-for-profit, independent provider of specialized mental health and addiction services for adults, teens, and children. Offering treatment in ten states, Rogers is one of the largest specialty behavioral healthcare systems in the U.S.
Rogers Behavioral Health Appleton location offers treatment for OCD and anxiety (children, adolescents, and adults); mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders (adolescents and adults); eating disorders, depression or other mood disorders and trauma (posttraumatic stress disorder) (adults only), Intensive Outpatient, and Partial Hospitalization specialty programs.
ThedaCare Behavioral Health
ThedaCare is one of the largest healthcare systems in Wisconsin, and largest employer in Northeast Wisconsin. ThedaCare is a community-owned, non-profit health system consisting of seven hospitals and 30+ primary care clinics, serving 14 counties with a population of 1,236,305.
ThedaCare Behavioral Health provides mental health and substance use disorder treatment to adults throughout ThedaCare's service region through a full range of Outpatient, Inpatient, and Consult and Liaison Services.
Winnebago Mental Health Institute
Winnebago Mental Health Institute (WMHI) is a psychiatric hospital operated by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. It is located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and specializes in serving children, adolescents, and adults with complex psychiatric conditions.
WMHI has an average daily population of approximately 190, with annual admissions of over 3,000. Approximately 12% of inpatients are minors, equally distributed between males and females; 37% of admissions are adult females; and adult males fill out the remainder.
It is one of two hospitals in the state which accepts forensic patients, including women and minors. Additionally, WMHI cannot refuse admission of any patients with a mental health need and therefore often supports community hospitals by caring for patients with a higher level of acuity regarding aggression, special needs, and risk. WMHI has been continuously accredited since its original 1941 accreditation by the American College of Surgeons.
Wisconsin Resource Center
The Wisconsin Resource Center (WRC), also located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is a Department of Health Services medium-security facility, providing individualized care for inmates transferred from Department of Corrections medium and maximum-security institutions.
The WRC engages and treats individuals with severe and persistent mental health needs within a secure setting to enhance public safety, promote healing, and support personal recovery. Mental health care at WRC is an interdisciplinary process, which integrates custody staff, psychiatry, nursing, psychology, social work, recreation therapy and teachers to provide treatment with an evidence-based focus.
The treatment population consists of both males and females with over 500 weekly scheduled classes for men and near 100 weekly sessions for women; this equates to approximately 2800 and 450 client contacts per week, respectively. The WRC is fully accredited by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care and is the only correctional institution in Wisconsin to have obtained this accreditation.
Northeastern Wisconsin Psychiatry Residency Program Sample Schedule
