Program Goals

Commitment to the poor and vulnerable:

Graduate residents who consistently advocate for vulnerable populations at individual and group levels
Demonstrate accountability to the profession in working to reduce social and healthcare disparities in our community
Demonstrate resident and faculty participation in local or regional professional communities

Focus on development as a clinician educator:

Graduate residents who pursue clinician focused jobs, with teaching components, to educate patients, other providers, and the broader community and who are committed to the pursuit of lifelong learning
Graduate residents who recognize and assume the role of a teacher as inherent to the job of being a physician, whether that be in work with patients, or medical or inter-professional learners
Graduate residents who educate the broader community by disseminating their knowledge, skills and attitudes at workshops, posters, publications, committee, and through legislative advocacy/work
Graduate residents that take jobs in the settings in which they train, and develop new community-based programs to address the specific needs of our populations
Successfully match residents into fellowship training of their choosing
Graduate residents who are competent in managing a diverse set of clinical populations

Attention to the needs of our local and regional communities:

Graduate residents that ideally remain in our region, or go and work in other underserved settings

Focus on population based care:

Train residents in the rationale for, and practice of population-based care, with an emphasis in collaborative care as a clinical practice that embodies this as one of its core principles
Graduate residents who can disseminate this model of care to new practice sites

Quality:

Develop psychiatrists that consider formal practice-based quality improvement critical to driving excellence in patient care, provider practice, and program optimization
Develop psychiatrists who have an attitude of humility and accountability, actively monitoring their own quality though outcome based tools
Graduate residents who consider performance improvement as necessary to lifelong learning and accountability to patents and our communities

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Train residents who appreciate the importance of cultural humility in providing excellent clinical care
Grow a diverse community of physicians and staff
Create an inclusive culture
Address structural inequity

Innovation:

Graduate residents who can work in and develop collaborative care programs
Graduate residents who lead inter-professional, interdisciplinary consultation teams
Graduate residents committed to leveraging psychiatric specialty care in a population-based approach
Graduate residents who consider program development as vital to addressing the needs of local/regional services

Evidence based training

Graduate residents that competently use evidence-based care principles in patient care

Balanced training

Develop residents who see psychotherapy as inherent to the job of being a psychiatrist, and understand the value of teamwork and interprofessional relationships
Graduate residents who provide treatment that includes psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, outcome-based care, and social interventions
Graduate residents competent at working in and leading teams, and see team-based care as critical to stewardship of healthcare resources, and to good patient outcomes

Preparation for emerging healthcare models

Train residents for practice models of the future
Graduate residents who pursue work in emerging healthcare paradigms
Graduate residents who are conscientious stewards of healthcare resources, practicing cost-effective, high-value clinical care