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Medicine/Psychiatry Residency

THE COMBINED MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY RESIDENCY at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University enables qualified physicians to become board certified in both specialties after five years of post-graduate education.

The program was developed by the programs in medicine and psychiatric medicine in response to recent trends in American health care. Biological variables have received renewed emphasis in psychiatric illnesses, and the importance of psychiatric factors in physical disease is increasingly recognized. This program answers a growing need for qualified primary care physicians with psychiatric expertise.

Through integrated and comprehensive training in internal medicine and psychiatry, resident physicians obtain a unique perspective of both disciplines and gain competency in each.

The five-year curriculum provides alternating and overlapping rotations on medical and psychiatric services, with increasing levels of responsibility. Those experiences are enhanced by opportunities for elective assignments. The program affords experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings, and allows residents to learn with community physicians. Abundant opportunities for teaching exist.

Graduates of combined medicine-psychiatry programs have gone on to enjoy virtually every type of practice opportunity: academia, research, private practice, subspecialization, primary care, psychosomatic medicine and biological psychiatry. We encourage residents to pursue interests most relevant to their planned career choices.

Rotations through medicine, neurology and psychiatry include ambulatory, inpatient and critical care settings. Fifth-year residents also complete rotations of two months in critical care, adolescent and child psychiatry, community psychiatry, including a state hospital and drug rehabilitation center inpatient service, and a mental health center outpatient service. Each year, residents may choose a one-month elective.

In addition, residents spend two half-days a week throughout the five-year program following their own patients in the medicine and the psychiatric medicine outpatient practices.

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