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1. Manhattan Campus

   • NYU Adult Psychiatry Residency Program

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     1. Kimmel Pavilion

        The Kimmel Pavilion houses inpatient medical and surgical units that psychiatry residents service as part of the NYU Langone consultation–liaison team. As part of this exciting service, residents join an interdisciplinary team that offers psychiatric consultations across all departments including internal medicine, multiple surgical subspecialties, obstetrics and gynecology, neurology and rehabilitation medicine. Residents also have opportunity to consult on addiction cases with this service.

         

        The Kimmel Pavilion also houses the new stand-alone psychiatric emergency holding area adjacent to the existing medical emergency room. Residents evaluate patients for acute psychiatric needs in both the psychiatric and emergency medicine rooms located here. 

     2. NYU Langone Tisch Hospital

        At NYU Langone Tisch Hospital, residents rotate on the hospital’s inpatient psychiatry unit. Providers on this unit have particular expertise in treating people with mood, personality, and psychotic disorders. All admissions to this unit are on a voluntary basis, and patients work with their treatment team to gain privileges such as access to personal electronics. On this unit, residents sharpen their skills in developing and coordinating personalized treatment plans alongside an interdisciplinary team.

     3. NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue

        Residents rotate at Bellevue Hospital throughout all four years of training. Here, residents learn about emergency, inpatient, and outpatient psychiatry.

         

        The Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) at Bellevue constitutes the busiest psychiatric emergency service in NYC, providing care to a diverse group of patients presenting from the medical emergency room, a wide catchment area in the community, as well as NYC’s jail system. The Child Psychiatric Emergency Program (CCPEP) at Bellevue is the country’s only specialized psychiatric emergency room for children and adolescents. Residents rotate in both the CPEP and CCPEP, cultivating their confidence in the treatment of urgent and emergent psychiatric issues. 

        Bellevue has a total of nine inpatient psychiatry units. Residents rotate on two adult units and either the child or adolescent inpatient units as part of the core curriculum. Here, residents learn how to deliver high quality, structurally humble, and evidence-based psychiatric care within a city public healthcare system. Residents also gain exposure to the state-run Mental Hygiene Legal Services provided to patients presenting before Bellevue’s mental health court.

        Also at Bellevue, residents rotate with the consultation–liaison service, working with an interdisciplinary team to conduct psychiatric assessments for people admitted to various services, including internal medicine, multiple surgical subspecialties, obstetrics and gynecology, neurology and rehabilitation medicine. Residents also have opportunity to consult on addiction cases as part of the Consult for Addiction Treatment and Care in Hospitals (CATCH) program. 

        In Bellevue’s resident outpatient psychiatry clinic, residents serve as the primary provider under close supervision for patients coping with a wide spectrum of illness severity and pathology. A primary care clinic is embedded into the Bellevue outpatient clinic, affording the opportunity to collaborate with medical providers while learning more about the reverse-integration model. The Bellevue outpatient clinic is also home to a robust family and couple’s therapy program. All residents have the opportunity to provide psychotherapy and psychotropic management for patients in the outpatient Methadone Maintenance and Chemical Dependency Clinics.

     4. VA NY Harbor Healthcare System

        At the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System residents rotate on the hospital’s inpatient psychiatry unit serving US veterans and their families. Working at the VA affords the unique opportunity of caring for patients who have been treated by providers in various specialties all under the same health home. Many patients presenting to this unit suffer from trauma-related illness, substance use disorders, or the psychiatric complications of combat related insults such as traumatic brain injury.

        
        During the rotation on the VA consultation–liaison service, residents join a multispecialty team of trainees that includes a psychosomatic medicine fellow, neurology residents, pain medicine fellows, and postdoctoral health psychology fellows. Key teaching areas covered in this rotation include the evaluation of new-onset neuropsychiatric symptoms in people with medically complex conditions, psychological adjustment to illness and hospitalization, and liaison aspects of working with medical and surgical services. 

        
        Residents rotate in the VA’s outpatient mental health clinic. Learning during this rotation parallels the VA’s emphasis on suicide prevention programs and various evidence-based psychotherapies. 

        
        Residents also evaluate patients presenting to the VA’s emergency department.

     5. NYSIM Center

        The NY Simulation Center is a state-of-the-art facility, which allows residents to learn from scenarios in a supportive learning environment. Last year the psychiatry residency hosted its inaugural simulation day, when PGY-1s ran through patient agitation scenarios that they may encounter on call during their PGY2 year. This year, the department plans to expand the program to include more simulations of rate but important to recognize syndromes, such as agitated catatonia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and serotonin syndrome.