The Clinician Educator (CE) Track offers residents advanced training, experience, and professional support for residents interested in a career in academic medicine (e.g. residency and fellowship program directors, medical student clerkship directors, and teaching).

The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry experience starts in the PGY-2 year. This is advantageous for residents contemplating fast tracking into Child Psychiatry as it gives them early exposure to the field to help them make their decision about fellowship.

Residents have the opportunity to work with faculty in our new Interventional Psychiatry service. This includes working with ketamine infusion therapies to treat treatment-resistant unipolar or bipolar depression.

The goal of the neuropsychiatry track is to prepare residents for work with complex cases at the interface of psychiatry, neurology, and general medicine. Residents on the track will develop their history-taking, cognitive and physical examination, and interdisciplinary communication skills.

Within psychiatry there exists a need to train physicians capable of treating patients, understanding the manifestations of disease, and performing substantive clinical or basic science research. In order to facilitate the development of psychiatrists who excel as clinicians and scientists, the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry have created specialized Psychiatry Residency Neuroscience Research Tracks.

The University of Psychiatry Residency Program offers comprehensive, longitudinal training in various psychotherapy modalities. Our psychotherapy curriculum is among the most robust in the region.

Partnering with Chicago Street Medicine – UIC chapter, Revive Center for Housing and Healing, and Community Outreach Intervention Projects (COIP), UIC adult psychiatry residency designed a longitudinal clinic and elective rotation that trains resident psychiatrists in Street Psychiatry, the practice of delivering psychiatric and substance use disorder treatment directly to people experiencing homelessness.

Psychiatry residency offers unique inpatient, outpatient, and eating disorder training focused on perinatal care, hormonal shifts, and gender-based psychopathology.