School of Medicine

Department of Psychiatry

Practicing psychiatry in New Orleans offers the opportunity to work with a wide varray of pathology in numerous settings. We train in both public and private hospitals, inpatient and outpatient settings, consult-liasion, ECT, forensics, addiction, child & adolescent, and emergency psychiatry.

PGY-1

Specialty
(time)

Location

Inpatient Psychiatry
(4 months)

Psychosis
(2 months)

UMC

Dual Diagnosis
(1 month)

Mood
(1 month)

Internal Medicine
(3 months)

Wards
(2 months)

UMC

Subspecialty
(1 month)

Neurology
(2 months)

Consult/Ambulatory
(1 month)

OMC

Consult/Inpatient
(1 month)

UMC

Emergency Medicine
(1 month)

UMC

Emergency Psychiatry
(1 month)

UMC

Psychiatry Night Float
(1 month)

UMC

UMC = University Medical Center
OMC = Ochsner Medical Center

 

PGY-2

Specialty
(time)

Location

Psychiatry Continuity Clinic every Tuesday (1p-5p)

BSC

Consult Liasion Psychiatry
(3 months)

OMC
(2 months)

UMC
(1 month)

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
(2 months)

Inpatient
(1 months)

CHNOLA

Consult Liasion
(1 month)

Addiction Psychiatry
(2 months)

Dual Diagnosis Inpatient
(1 month)

UMC

Consults & ABU
(1 month)

OMC

Forensic Psychiatry
(1 month)

UMC

Orleans Parish District Court

Telemedicine

Geriatric Psychiatry - with ECT
(1 month)

OMC

Psychiatry Night Float
(1 month)

OMC

Psychiatry Inpatient
(1 month)

UMC

Elective
(1 month)

UMC, OMC, NO VAMC

UMC = University Medical Center
OMC = Ochsner Medical Center
CHNOLA = Children's Hospital of New Orleans
BSC = Behavioral Science Center

 

PGY-3

The PGY3 outpatient clinic year schedule is developed on residents' preference. Rather than changing to a different clinic each month, our residents  rotate through the same 4-5 clinics every week for the entire year, allowing residents to have the opportunity to get true continuity and ownership of their patients.

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Clinic Legend
  • Access Health/Inclusive Care (telepsychiatry)
  • BSC - Behavioral Sciences Center (all patient populations/pathologies; continue to see patients establish in PGY2 year)
  • MHSD - Metropolitan Human Services District (community clinics)
  • NOELA - New Orleans East Louisiana (vietnamese/spanish community clinic)
  • Ochsner Medical Center (majority private insurance)
  • UMCNO Addiction (substance use disorder clinic & IOP)
  • UMCNO GI (co-occurring GI pathologies)
  • UMCNO ObGyn (women's mental health)
  • UMCNO Trauma (physical trauma recovery clinic)
  • Each resident does 1 month of UMC ECT in PGY3

 

PGY-4

Specialty
(time)

Location

Junior Attending
(3 months)

UMC

Consult Liasion Psychiatry
(2 months)

OMC
(1 month)

UMC
(1 month)

Veterans Affairs Psychiatry
(up to 2 months)

NO VAMC

Addiction IOP
(1 month)

OMC

General IOP
(1 month)

UMC

Electives
(up to 4 months)

Palliative, Sleep, Geriatric, Research, General IOP, 

OMC

Neuroradiology, ECT, Research

UMC

MHSD Crisis Unit

MHSD

UMC = University Medical Center
OMC = Ochsner Medical Center
NO VAMC = New Orleans Veterans Affairs Medical Center
MHSD = Metropolitan Human Services District

 

Call Schedule

PGY1

PGY2

PGY3

PGY4

Inpt Psych (4 months of year): 2 weekends/month

Internal Medicine Wards (2 months of year): Q4 Days

Internal Medicine Consult Month (1 month): Jeopardy call only

Night Float: 1 Month (Sun - Thurs)

24-hour weekend call ~Q5 weeks

Night Float: two 2-week intervals (Sun - Thurs)

NO CALL

NO CALL