Residency Training Programs
MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION
The
major goal of our residency training program is to prepare our
graduates to be
competent, well-informed, caring clinicians and scientists who are
prepared to
manage any challenge in psychiatry by utilizing the latest scientific
information and by critically applying sound reasoning skills. We prepare our graduates to be competent in
every major area of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment and to be
dedicated to
their patients, colleagues and to their own continued learning.
The
Psychiatry Department at the University of Chicago
has a long and
highly respected history of clinical, teaching, and scientific
excellence. Many
of its former graduates are current and former Chairs of Departments of
Psychiatry and leading researchers in psychiatry. Our
current Chair, Emil Coccaro, MD, a well
known clinical researcher in the field of aggression and personality
disorders,
has recruited several new faculty members to the Department with
clinical and
basic science research interests that span numerous subspecialty areas
including behavioral genetics.
The
adult residency training program is directed by Deborah Spitz, M.D., a
leader
in the field of psychiatric education for many years,
A Board Certified adult psychiatrist, she
received her MD from the University of Pennsylvania and completed her
psychiatric residency and fellowship at The University of Chicago. She was the recipient of an NIMH Junior
Faculty Development Award in 1982, and served on the faculty at The
University
of Chicago until 1988. For the next
12
years, she was on the faculty at Tufts-New England
Medical Center, where she directed
the adult residency training program.
Beginning in 2000, she spent three years in Britain
as a Consultant Psychiatrist for the National Health Service and
teacher in one
of England’s newest
medical
schools at the University
of East Anglia. She re-joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 2003.
Throughout her career she has been active in
medical student and resident education, and has received numerous
teaching
awards both at The University of Chicago and at Tufts-New England
Medical Center. She
has been the President of the Association
for Academic Psychiatry, and has been active in the American
Psychiatric Association
and the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry.
The child training
program is led by Sharon Hirsch, M.D. Board
Certified in both adult and child and adolescent psychiatry, she
received her MD from University
of Texas,
Galveston, completed her psychiatric
residency
at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), and completed her
child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship
at the University
of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA). In addition, she
completed fellowships in psychopharmacology research at UCSD an in
child
psychopathology at UCLA. She was an
Attending Psychiatrist at Children’s Memorial
Hospital and Assistant
Professor of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern
University in Chicago before
coming to The University of
Chicago in2005. She has been a Co-Principal Investigator in the STAR*D
Child
Study, and has been a Principal Investigator in Phase I and II studies
of d-Methylphenidate.
Historically,
many residents in our program have chosen to continue their training in
child
psychiatry. We anticipate that our child
fellowship will accept 2-3 fellows per year, beginning in July 2007.
The
University
of Chicago
emphasizes intellectual
discourse, interdisciplinary work, and collaborative education and
research. Our residents have very close contact with the
entire
faculty in our Department, as well as access to faculty in other
Departments
and Schools within The University of Chicago.
The Department of Psychiatry
has
16 full time MD’s and 18 fulltime PhD’s with varied interests and
research
areas, as well as 25-30 part-time and voluntary MD or PhD faculty who
actively
teach, supervise and mentor residents.
Nearly all faculty
are geographic full-time, salaried professors in the University: Their continuous availability and lack of
competing practice demands are important elements contributing to the
strength
of the psychiatric residency.
The
University
of Chicago is
often known as the teacher of
teachers. Education is of central
importance in our Department: we are all
teachers and students at the same time, for it is through teaching that
we
learn best. Residents have many opportunities to teach medical
students, and
receive instruction and mentorship to become better teachers and
evaluators.
While not all residents go on to careers in academia or research, all
residents
are prepared for a lifetime of learning and teaching by being able
critically to
assess new information and add it to their knowledge base and skill
sets. With the rapid development of
knowledge in psychiatry
and the neurosciences, this ability is perhaps the most important one a
training program can offer its residents.
Below
you will find links to other information about our residency program,
including
rotation schedules, a message from our Chair, and information about the
city of
Chicago. You will also find links to pictures of our
residents
at various Departmental training and social events, a list of our
current
residents, and a description of post-residency
activities of our recent
graduates. Please feel free to contact me,
or any of our
current residents, to learn more about our program.
Deborah
Spitz, M.D.
Director
of Education
Adult Residency Program Director
To request a hard copy
of the information on the website please call (773)702-0529 or email
education@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu
.
Please review the information about our residency program. We only
accept applications through ERAS.For information about ERAS visit AAMC . We look
forward to reviewing your application.
