Required Rotations

  

  • Orientation (Primary Children's Hospital): 5 weeks

  • Child and Adolescent - Outpatient (Primary Children's Hospital): 6 weeks

  • Child and Adolescent - Inpatient (Primary Children's Hospital): 6 weeks

  • Adult and Adolescent - Inpatient (McKay-Dee Hospital): 6 weeks

  • Adult Psychiatry and Medical Detox – Inpatient (LDS Hospital): 4 weeks

  • Adult Psychiatry and Neuro Trauma – Inpatient (Utah Valley Hospital): 4 weeks

 

Other required longitudinal learning experiences continue throughout the residency year and focus on continuity of care, teaching and service to the institution:

  

  • Research and Quality Improvement Project: 12 months

  • Staffing: 12 months, two-12 hour shifts every third weekend on the pediatric inpatient psychiatry unit

  • Teaching: 12 months

  • ACPE-Accredited Presentation: 6 months

  • Precepting (see Teaching and Presentations): 4-6 weeks depending on other learners’ schedule

  • Consistent presence in one longitudinal, continuity-of-care outpatient clinic one day per week is required. Currently established options include: 

  • Outpatient Pediatric Psychiatry Longitudinal Clinic: 9 months, a full day every Tuesday

  • Expansion of services to other clinics is welcomed and encouraged 

  • Pharmacy Leadership: 12 months

 

Elective Learning Experiences:

2, 4 or 6 weeks depending on resident interests and needs. May also repeat a required learning experience.

  • Intermountain Health
    • Neurology ICU
    • Pediatric Medical Psychiatry
    • Management and Medication Safety
    • Other elective experiences may be developed based on resident interest and preceptor availability:
      • Examples for potential development:
        • Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program
        • Adolescent Day Treatment Program
  • Off-site 
    • Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program
    • Primary Care Addiction Medicine
    • Poison Control