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Residency Education

Residency Education

Our program offers a variety of unique educational experiences. Our residents rotate through rural and urban facilities both in hospitals and ambulatory settings. The educational curriculum is designed to provide the resident with varied experiences and perspectives throughout our Michigan community. Prioritizing patient care and the education of our residents is at the core of our mission. We provide engaging educational opportunities such as a department-wide Film Festival, Residency Research Poster Day, resident sub-specialty conferences, community outreach projects, resident retreats, and resident wellness days.

Opportunities to do longitudinal electives in DBT, student mental health, geriatric residential are available during the third year of continuous outpatient psychiatry.

Available electives include any already established rotations and experiences, as well as Student Health, ECT, DBT, TBI and international electives at various sites including Malawi, Merida, MX, and Jordan. Residents are encouraged to seek electives in subspecialty areas of interest.

Clinton Eaton Ingham
Community Mental Health (CEICMH)
812 E. Jolly Rd.
Lansing, MI 48910

Hurley Medical Center
1 Hurley Plaza
Flint, MI 48503

Michigan State University Sites
Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic
909 Wilson Rd. B109 West Fee Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824

University of Michigan Health - Sparrow Hospital Sites
Main Hospital
1215 E. Michigan Ave.
Lansing, MI 48912

St. Lawrence Campus
1210 W. Saginaw St.
Lansing, MI 48915

University of Michigan Health - Sparrow Professional Building
1200 E. Michigan Ave.
Lansing, MI 48912

Weekly Thursday Didactics and Seminars

  • PGY-1: psychopathology, psychopharmacology, psychiatric interview and psychiatric treatment modalities, cultural psychiatry, neurology and neuroscience
  • PGY-2: brief psychotherapies, sub-specialties of psychiatry, college mental health, community outreach, ethics, geriatric case conference
  • PGY-3: case conference, psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, ambulatory psychiatry, community psychiatry, women's mental health​, adult development

  • PGY-4: board review, career development, forensics, gender identity, child and adolescent psychiatry

Grand Rounds

  • Special topics, case presentation, and morbidity and mortality conferences in psychiatry

Journal Club

  • Resident led seminar on current topics in psychiatry

Film Festival

  • Annual residency program retreat that merges popular culture and the psychiatry discipline