PGY-2

Rotation Schedule:

Inpatient Psychiatry:

• UIC
  • Residents split time between four inpatient teams: green (psychosis), blue (mood/anxiety), red (women's mental health), and purple (med/psych and neuropsychiatry). UIC is able to provide care for a unique patient population, including medically complex psychiatric patients, catatonia, autism spectrum disorders, pregnant patients with serious mental illness, and patients who are subject to involuntary commitment. Nearly all residents will become comfortable with initiating long-acting injectable antipsychotics, and most are able to gain experience in initiating clozapine on the inpatient unit.
  • Residents participate in a daily morning report with medical students, and twice a year give Inpatient Case Conference presentation with faculty supervision.
  • As PGY-2s, residents manage a higher case load, and carry primary responsibility for teaching medical students.
• Jesse Brown VA
  • Residents rotate on the acute inpatient unit at the VA, gaining unique exposure to both younger and older veterans, PTSD, chronic substance use disorders, and personality disorders.
  • As PGY-2s, residents manage a higher case load, and carry primary responsibility for teaching medical students.

Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry (UIC and VA)

• Residents become well versed in psychiatric assessment and treatment of medical inpatients. Common learning points include capacity for making clinical decisions, management of delirium and agitation, and treatment of substance use disorders and acute withdrawal.

Child Psychiatry

• PGY2s rotate on the Comprehensive Assessment Treatment Unit (CATU), a unique ward which provides extended psychiatric care for children and adolescents in the foster care system. Residents are heavily involved with acute stabilization, and treatment planning to ensure that young people have an adequate support system at their next placement. Additional child outpatient experiences complement the CATU experience. 

Community Psychiatry

• Residents rotate with the Mental Health Intensive Case Management (MICHM) service at the JBVA. MHICM is an assertive community treatment program run through the VA, which serves patients with severe psychotic disorders and the chronically mentally ill.

4 weeks of night float

4 weeks vacation:

• Scheduled in 1 week blocks.

Call Duties:

UIC residents cover evening/weekend call and night float at both the university hospital and Jesse Brown VA.

Night Float:  8 PM - 8 AM, Sunday - Thursday

Short calls: 4:30 PM - 8 PM Monday - Thursday

Friday calls: 4:30 PM Friday until 8 AM Saturday; PGY2 and 3 only

Weekend calls: Saturday 8 AM - 8 PM, Saturday 8 PM - Sunday 8 AM, and Sunday 8 AM-8PM

• 4 weeks of night float (2 x 2 week blocks)
• One 24-hour holiday call
• Average of about 14 short calls + 6 Friday calls + and 10 weekend calls over the whole year
• Total hours about 285/year