General Psychiatry Residency Program Overview: Third Year
Third Year – Sustained Growth
The third year (PGY3) marks a full transition to outpatient psychiatry, unlike prior years’ inpatient/mixed rotations. Residents rotate through 3-4 diverse clinics weekly (e.g., child/adolescent, student health, veterans, serious mental illness/SMI, transitional care clinics), with a consistent week-to-week schedule but varying day-to-day assignments – enabling longitudinal patient care and deep relationships. Clinics run year-round; see sites here. By year’s end, residents gain autonomous outpatient confidence.
Elective Time
Like in the PGY2 year, PGY3 residents are provided one half day per week for clinical or research elective opportunities.
PGY-3 Clinical Rotation Timeline
- Adult Outpatient Psychiatry (3 days per week)
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (0.5 days per week)
- Psychotherapy (0.5 days per week)
- Elective (0.5 days per week)