The PGY-2 year is the first full-time year of specialization in psychiatry. Residents spend time in comprehensive inpatient, partial hospitalization and consultation-liaison experiences where they learn to approach clinical issues from psychosocial and biologic perspectives. In addition, they spend 2 months on a forensic rotation at St. Elizabeths Hospital. They obtain clinical experience in psychiatric interviewing, individual, group and family psychotherapies, psychiatric diagnosis, and psychopharmacology.
PGY-2 residents rotate through all the following facilities for varying lengths of time: the Georgetown University Hospital Inpatient Unit; Georgetown University Hospital Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization Program; Washington Hospital Center; the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center Inpatient Units; St. Elizabeths Hospital.
Faculty members provide supervision to each resident throughout the PG-2 year. In addition, PGY-2 residents learn by teaching. With the assistance of faculty, residents assume some responsibility for the instruction and supervision of third year Georgetown medical students during their psychiatric clerkship.
PGY-2 residents also take responsibility on a rotating basis for psychiatric evaluations in the Georgetown University Hospital and the Veterans' Affairs Medical Center's Emergency Room during daytime hours and, when on call, during evening hours.
Didactic seminars and conferences take place throughout the year and residents participate in regular case conferences on each of the clinical services.
