Rotations and Lectures

Rotations for First Year

• 2 months of Neurology
• 1 month of Emergency Medicine
• 2 months of Family Practice
• 1 month of Internal Medicine at VA
• 4 months of Inpatient Psychiatry at Good Shepherd Campus
• 2 months of Emergency Psychiatry

Rotations for Second Year

• 1 month of Chemical Dependency
• 2 months of Geriatric Psychiatry
• 2 months of Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry
• 6 months of Inpatient Psychiatry
• 1 month Child/Adolescent Psychiatry

Lectures for PGY 1 and 2 Residents

• Forensic Psychiatry
• Emergency Psychiatry
• Psychiatric Pharmacology
• Introductory Psychiatry Textbook Seminar
• Child Development
• Introduction to Research Methodology
• Introduction to Psychotherapy Seminar
• Clinical Interviewing Patient Care Seminar
• Evidence Based Mental Health Journal Club
• Multidisciplinary Case Conferences
• Psychodynamic Psychiatry Seminar
• Residents as Teachers
• Introduction to Psychiatry Residency
• Grand Rounds (Local and National Speakers)

Rotations for Third Year

• 12 months Resident Outpatient Psychiatry

The Via Christi Psychiatric Clinic is located on the Good Shepherd Campus.  In addition to running their own psychiatry clinic, the residents spend one day per week at ComCare (Sedgwick County Department of Mental Health) providing psychiatric care to several community mental health programs.  These include Crisis Intervention Services, Addiction Treatment Services and Community Support Systems where they see the severely persistently mentally ill.  The residents also have one week long experience in forensic psychiatry at Larned State Hospital.

Rotations for Fourth Year

• 1 month Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• 3 months on Inpatient Psychiatry in the role of Senior Resident
• 7 months of Elective time spent on an approved rotation.
• Research Fellowship as arranged with Clinical Research Institute
• Electives Include:
• PTSD
• Palliative Care
• Psychotherapy
• Neuroimaging
• Neuropsych Testing
• Addiction Psychiatry
• Additional months in Geriatric Psychiatry as Senior Resident
• Additional months in C/L Psychiatry as Senior Resident

Clinics include: Psychotherapy, geriatric psychiatry and adolescent psychiatry

Lectures for PGY 3 and 4 Residents

• Psychosomatic Psychotherapy Case Formulation
• Textbook Review Seminar
• Psychotherapy Case Preparation Seminar
• Evidence Based Mental Health Journal Club
• Marriage and Family Seminar
• Difficult Case Seminar
• Advanced Psychopharmacology
• Residents as Teachers
• ECT Lectures
• Grand Rounds

The Kansas Psychiatric Society (The District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association) spring meeting is held in Wichita with speakers of the local, regional and national level.