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Psychiatry Residency Spokane Program Rotation Structure by Year

Table below updated for 2024-25 Academic Year

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PGY1

DESCRIPTION
Duration
Emergency Medicine – SHMC (can split 2 weeks Peds ED/Adult ED)
4 weeks
Internal Medicine – Ambulatory- STHC
4 weeks
Internal Medicine – Inpatient – SHMC
8 weeks
Neurology – Inpatient Consults – SHMC
4 weeks
Psychiatry – Addiction Medicine Consult Service - SHMC
4 weeks
Psychiatry – Consultation-Liaison – SHMC
4-8 weeks
Psychiatry – Inpatient Geriatrics – ESH
4 weeks
Psychiatry – Inpatient Adult – SHMC
10-12 weeks
Half-day didactic teaching per week

PGY2

DESCRIPTION
Duration
Psychiatry – Addiction Medicine Consult Service - SHMC
4-8 weeks
Psychiatry – Ambulatory Psychiatry – STHC - q5 weeks
10 weeks
Psychiatry – BEST (K-6 Intensive Day Program) – HFMC or
Psychiatry – Child and Adolescent Consult-Liaison – SHMC or
Psychiatry – RISE (Adolescent IOP) – HFMC
4 weeks
Psychiatry – Consultation-Liaison/Emergency, Adult – SHMC
8-12 weeks
Psychiatry – Inpatient Adult – SHMC
16-20 weeks
Neurology – Inpatient Consults – SHMC or
Neurology – Ambulatory Movement disorders clinic - Selkirk
4 weeks
Psychiatry – Psychotherapy Continuity Clinic – STHC
1/2 day per week
Half-day didactic teaching per week

PGY3

REQUIRED ROTATIONS
Year-long ½ day per week rotation at Frontier Behavioral Health for Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Year-long 1 day per week rotation in Psychiatry Specialty Clinic at Spokane Teaching Health Clinic (STHC)
Year-long ½ day per week of collaborative care consults.
Year-long ½ day per week selective experience (can be STHC, SHMC, off-site).
Year-long ½ day per week of rural Telepsychiatry
Year-long 1 day per week longitudinal psychotherapy clinic with 1/2 day at Gonzaga University and 1/2 day at STHC
Year-long ½ day per week Addiction Psychiatry at STHC
Half-day didactic teaching per week

PGY4

REQUIRED ROTATIONS
Year-long ½ day per week rotation at Washington State University Continuity Therapy Clinic
Year-long 1 day per week rotation in psychiatry specialty clinic at STHC
Optional 6 month 1/2 day per week of collaborative care consultation
Year-long 1/2 day per week Addiction Psychotherapy at VAMC Substance Abuse Treatment Program (SATP)
Psychiatry – Inpatient Forensics – ESH
2-4 weeks
Required Junior Attending rotation at a variety of sites and settings including ambulatory, inpatient and consult liaison psychiatry
Twelve 4-week blocks of elective time: 2-2 ½ total days per week
Half-day didactic teaching per week

ELECTIVE ROTATIONS
Elective options can include any of previously completed required rotations

Commonly chosen elective options:

  • Frontier Behavioral Health E&T elective
  • Frontier Behavioral Health Child & Adolescent Clinic
  • Frontier Behavioral Health Crisis Services elective
  • Frontier Behavioral Health I-DBT elective
  • Gonzaga University Primary Care Psychiatry elective
  • Gonzaga University Psychotherapy Clinic
  • Junior Attending – Inpatient, consult liaison psychiatry or clinic psychiatry elective
  • Pediatric Neuro-developmental clinic
    • ½ to full day elective per week for 2-3 months
  • Sleep medicine
    • ½ day longitudinal 2-3 month elective
  • Curriculum development and teaching Elective
    • ½ day a week for a variable rotation duration, expected to develop a curriculum for implementation at the end of the elective, and to teach at least 3 didactic sessions
  • Advanced Motivational Interviewing Elective
  • Spokane Treatment Solutions Addiction Treatment Clinic - MAT, including methadone, psychotherapy
  • Advanced QI/Scholarly work elective
  • Sports medicine psychiatry elective
  • Yale Science of wellbeing coursera elective
  • Away elective at Bartlett Medical Center, Juneau, Alaska
  • VAMC Addiction group process therapy elective
  • VAMC TBI elective
  • Emergency psychiatry hospitalist elective
  • Severe heart disease (include cardiac transplant, LVAD and heart failure) psychiatry consultation liaison clinic
  • Juvenile Detention Child and Adolescent Consultation.
  • A variety of psychotherapy electives (ISTDP, ACT, DBT, Group, Harm Reduction)