Department Profile
About The University of Illinois Chicago
The University of Illinois Chicago is one of three main campuses of the University of Illinois. The medical college in Chicago is the flagship program in the state and is the largest training program for physicians in the country. The UIC campus is divided into two parts, the arts and science campus, formerly called the Chicago Circle Campus, and the health sciences campus, which is the westernmost portion of the university community.
UIC is one of ten national university medical centers with an all-health college (including the areas of public health, medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, and allied health). The UIC Hospital is one of four major teaching hospitals in the immediate area. The others include Rush Medical Center, the West Side Veterans Administration Medical Center, and Cook County Hospital. The UIC Hospital is consistently listed as one of the top medical centers in the nation.
Because UIC is a major teaching and research facility, a wealth of resources is available to psychology interns and the university community as a whole. Interns have access to the Library of the Health Sciences of the University of Illinois as well as other specialized medical and psychiatric libraries in the Chicago area. UIC maintains a broad range of on-line journals in both psychology and psychiatry and related disciplines. Computerized literature searches and specialized bibliographies are among the many services provided by the library staff. A library of audiotapes and videotapes covering numerous topics of interest to the mental health professional is available. The UIC has a large mainframe computer system with statistical and other packaged programs which can be used by the interns. The department also makes available personal computers with internet access for each intern.
About The Department Of Psychiatry
The Department of Psychiatry presently employs over 400 faculty and staff members. Faculty members contribute to the mission of the Department in the areas of research, education and training, and clinical service.
The Department of Psychiatry has successfully competed for major externally funded research grants and consistently receives either the highest or second highest level of externally funded research on the UIC campus. The faculty's research is nationally recognized and includes interest areas such as the longitudinal course and outcome of patients with schizophrenia, affective disorders, and other major mental illnesses, research on women and gender, mental health services research, and research on patterns of psychiatric service utilization and outcome. Furthermore, faculty working at the department's Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR), the site of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, have developed pioneering approaches to dealing with major social and behavioral problems which beset children in our society. These problems include assessment and preventive interventions for high risk, aggressive, and violent behaviors in children and adolescents, and child abuse.
The Department supports the psychology internship program, with one track in adult and one in child psychology. In addition, there is a large Residency Training Program as well as psychiatry fellowships in Child and Adolesecent Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Clinical Informatics, Global Mental Health, Geriatric Psychiatry, and Women's Mental Health. The Department is actively involved in training medical students, nursing students, and social work students.
The faculty is truly an interdisciplinary mix. Faculty members are drawn from the areas of clinical, counseling, and developmental psychology, psychiatry, public health, sociology, nursing, social work, biostatistics and from the biological sciences.
About Chicago
Chicago is one of the three largest cities in the country, and it is the most affordable of the three. Chicago is truly an art-lover's city, offering craft and ethnic fairs, the renowned Art Institute, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera, and more than 200 public sculptures by artists including Picasso, Miro and Chagall. Chicago offers dozens of distinct neighborhoods, each nurturing a different immigrant heritage. In Chicago, wonderful Swedish bakeries, Jewish delis, jazz and blues clubs, Greek, Chinese and Japanese restaurants, Indian grocery stores, and much more can be found. And given that Chicago has been home to Michael Jordan and the recent World Champion White Sox, who knows what the future may bring!