The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine offers a general adult psychiatry residency program and subspecialty residency programs in child and adolescent psychiatry, geropsychiatry, and addiction psychiatry. The McGaw Medical Center is the sponsoring institution for all Northwestern graduate medical education programs.
The general adult psychiatry residency program educates physicians to become competent, sensitive psychiatrists capable of providing comprehensive services to a wide spectrum of patients in diverse clinical settings. Based on the biopsychosocial model, the residency is anchored by a tripartite system of broad and intensive clinical experience, individual supervision, and didactic seminars. The goals of the educational program include achieving competence in patient care, medical knowledge, research literacy practice-based learning, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice. The program emphasizes the contributions of the neurosciences and evidenced-based medicine to clinical psychiatry and provides an in-depth understanding of human behavior. This creates the foundation for the program’s exceptional competence in teaching psychotherapy. The integration of these perspectives is the most important objective of Northwestern’s educational efforts. Our program’s goals include the fostering of future academic psychiatrists, so early exposure to research opportunities and mentorship is a high priority for program and department leadership. The residency program uses the comprehensive psychiatric centers based at several of the teaching hospitals of the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. Many of the hospitals' attending staff members serve on the Feinberg School faculty. The first year of the four-year psychiatry residency program focuses on medicine, neurology, and inpatient psychiatry, with each resident spending the first six months in internal medicine and neurology. Residents may substitute two months of pediatrics for two months of internal medicine.
The last two and a half years of the program emphasize ambulatory psychiatry, the subspecialties, and electives. Throughout, clinical experiences are combined with intensive supervision and strong didactic preparation, all emphasizing the biopsychosocial foundations of psychiatry. The general adult psychiatry residency offers eight first-year positions each year, with a total of 32 residents in the program at one time. Applicants are encouraged to complete a six-week subinternship in internal medicine during their senior year in medical school. The residency program begins in late June of each year. Joan M. Anzia, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences For more information, contact Residency Program Coordinator Mia Collins, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 446 East Ontario Street, Suite 7-200, Chicago, Illinois 60611-7104, 312/926-8058; fax 312/926-7612 or visit the Department of Psychiatry Web site. E-mail: janzia@nmh.org | 
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