COMBINED MEDICINE-PSYCHIATRY RESIDENCY

Through integrated and comprehensive training in both Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, participating physicians will obtain a unique perspective of the interrelationships between the two disciplines while gathering expertise in both.

The five year curriculum provides alternating and overlapping rotations on medical and psychiatric services, with increasing levels of responsibility and opportunities for elective assignments. Experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings, exposure to community physicians as well as university faculty, and abundant opportunities for teaching enable resident physicians to adequately prepare for their future careers. Graduates of similar programs have gone on to enjoy virtually every type of practice opportunity: academia, research, private practice, sub-specialization, primary care, psychosomatic medicine, biological psychiatry, and individual practices reflecting their own particular skills and interests.

The program was developed under the joint auspices of the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatric Medicine to respond 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 has been increasingly recognized. This program responds to the growing need for qualified primary care physicians with psychiatric expertise.

Combined Medicine/Psychiatry Residency Curriculum

PGY-I

• 5 months Medicine Wards (General Medicine [GM], Intensive Care
  [ICU], and Subspecialty [SS] services)
• 2 months Neurology Ward
• 1 month Emergency Department
• 3 months Inpatient Psychiatry
• 1 month Medicine Elective

PGY-II

• 5 months Medicine Wards (2 as intern and 3
  as resident -GM, ICU, and SS services)
• 1 month Outpatient Neurology
• 1 month Ambulatory Medicine
• 3 months Inpatient Psychiatry
• 1 month Consult Liaison Psychiatry
• 1 month Medicine Elective

PGY-III

• 2 months Medicine Wards (GM and ICU services)
• 1 month Ambulatory Medicine
• 3 months Inpatient Psychiatry
• 5 months Outpatient Psychiatry
• 1 month Medicine Elective

PGY-IV

• 2 months Medicine Wards (GM and SS services)
• 1 month Medicine Consult
• 1 month Geriatric Consult
  
• 4 months Outpatient Psychiatry
• 1 month Consult Liaison Psychiatry
• 1 month Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  
• 1 month Medicine Elective
• 1 month Geriatric Psychiatry
  

PGY-V

• 2 months Medicine Wards (ICU and SS services)
• 2 months Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• 1 month Emergency Psychiatry
• 2 months Community Psychiatry
• 2 months Addictions Psychiatry
• 1 month Psychological Testing & Forensic Psychiatry
• 2 months Medicine Elective

In addition, residents will spend one half-day per week throughout the five-year program following their own patients in both the Medicine Outpatient Clinic and the Psychiatric Medicine Outpatient Clinic.

To Apply:
All applications are processed through ERAS and positions are only secured through the NRMP match. Applicants to the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University psychiatric medicine residency training program must:

• Complete an ECU application form
• Provide a transcript from their medical school, a dean's letter and two letters of reference

We enjoy meeting prospective residents and upon receipt of the above material, selected applicants will be requested to arrange a mutually convenient weekday for interviews at East Carolina University. Final acceptance to the program is at the discretion of the chairman of the department and the director of residency training, upon the advice of the residency advisory committee.

Initial appointment to the program is for one year, and reappointment for each subsequent year is based on the resident's performance.

Persons interested in applying for training in psychiatry at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University or in learning more about the program should contact:

James G. Peden, Jr., M. D.
Medicine/Psychiatry Residency Director
Brody School of Medicine at ECU

2N-49 Brody Building
Greenville, NC 27834
(252) 744-2272