Overall

• Directors
  • Geri Fox MD, Director of Psychiatry UGME
  • Sean Blitzstein MD, Associate Director and M-3 Clerkship Director
  • Birute Pabedinskas MA, Associate Director (Administrative)
• Mission
  • To provide excellence in psychiatry education for all medical students
    • To ensure that all of our future physicians, regardless of their ultimate chosen specialty, learn the fundamentals of psychiatry
    • To provide advanced elective experience for students choosing other fields (e.g. pediatricians wanting child and adolescent psychiatry training)
  • To identify and mentor students interested in psychiatry, and recruit talented future clinician-educators and researchers into the field of psychiatry and subspecialties
• Medical School Overview
  • UI-COM is the largest public medical school in the country (1300 students) and trains one in six Illinois physicians.
  • Four campuses: Chicago, Rockford, Peoria, and Urbana-Champaign
  • The Chicago campus (UIC-COM) is the largest site, serving ~ 800 students in the four-year curriculum.
    
    • Medical student training in psychiatry is coordinated across the four campuses by the Psychiatry ECCC