PGY-1

First-year (PGY-1) residents' training includes:

Two months of internal medicine inpatient wards
Two months of family medicine or child outpatient clinics
Two blocks of neurology consultation service (inpatient and outpatient)
Seven blocks of inpatient psychiatry wards

PGY-2

Second-year (PGY-2) training includes, depending on resident interest.

Two or three months of geriatric psychiatry
Two or three months of child and adolescent psychiatry
Two months of consultation-liaison psychiatry
Two months of emergency psychiatry
Three months of inpatient forensic psychiatry

PGY-3

Third year (PGY-3) training includes 12-months of outpatient psychiatry. Under supervision of a faculty attending, residents will be exposed to the full spectrum of psychiatric disorders and intervention techniques, including psychopharmacology as well as various aspects of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy experience will span the PGY-3 and PGY-4 years of training. In addition, addiction psychiatry will be one of the rotations in third year.

PGY-4

Fourth year (PGY-4) residents may broaden their training experience by taking a combination of electives. These electives may include:

Private practice psychiatry
Research at the UC Riverside Division of Biomedical Sciences
Administrative psychiatry
Consultation psychiatry
Emergency psychiatry
Addiction psychiatry
Outpatient community psychiatry
Inpatient forensic psychiatry
Inpatient community psychiatry