Resident Awards and Postgraduate Experience

Many organizations invite nominations of outstanding residents for fellowships which involve active participation in the organization and participation in meetings during the year. In past years, our residents have won fellowships from the following:

• American College of Psychiatrists (3);
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• The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (2);
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• APA Minority Fellowship (3); and Mead-Johnson Fellowship for Community Psychiatry (2)

In addition:

• one resident was awarded the A.E. Bennett Award for basic research;
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• one resident was a member of the Committee of Residents for the APA and was selected to be an editor of the Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry (which is devoted to the publication of articles by psychiatric residents); and
  
  
• another resident has been a member in training and representative to the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association.

Following graduation, many residents pursue subspecialty training. In recent years, residents have taken positions in child psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, psychiatric research, neurology, and psychoanalysis. This postgraduate education has occurred in universities and analytic institutes throughout the country. Approximately 35% of the staff psychiatrists of CMHS are graduates of our training program. Many graduates have pursued successful careers in academic centers and the private sector, both locally and elsewhere.

Evaluation Procedures

Each resident is formally evaluated twice yearly by the psychiatry faculty. This evaluation is based on written evaluations by teachers and supervisors, copies of which are available to residents, and the discussion of the faculty. A summary evaluation is completed twice yearly.

Application Procedures

All applicants to the residency must be graduates of an accredited medical school in the United States or Canada or have passed the USMLE. An excellent command of spoken and written English language is required. Applicants who have completed an internship in countries other than the United States who wish to enter the PGY-II level, must obtain written notification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology that a waiver for the PGY-I year has been granted. Applicants for most advanced positions must have completed prior training in an accredited department of psychiatry in the United States or Canada. The program participates in National Resident Matching Program.

Applicants should address letters of inquiry to:

• David I. Joseph, M.D.
  Director of Residency
  Training Department of Psychiatry
  St. Elizabeths Campus/CMHS
  Washington, DC 20032
  202-373-7247
  

Interviews with faculty and residents are scheduled as soon as all transcripts and letters of recommendations have been received.