Residency Training Program
in Psychiatry

Policies

Moonlighting

Psychiatric residents are permitted to moonlight. In accordance with ACGME requirements, moonlighting activities are monitored to make certain they do not conflict with training. There are many excellent moonlighting opportunities in the New Haven area.

On-Call Responsibilities

PGY-II: During PGY-II residents provide coverage approximately every 7th night. This call is for either Yale New Haven Hospital, the Connecticut Mental Health Center or for the Yale Psychiatric Hospital.

PGY-III: During PGY-III residents are on-call in the Crisis Intervention Unit of the Yale New Haven Hospital Emergency Room. Call is done by combining "night float" rotations in which the resident works each night for one week and is off during the day with sporadic additional on-call shifts. Each resident completes his/her on-call responsibilities in a single 6 month block and covers 26 on-call shifts. There are no other on-call responsibilities in the PG-III year.

PGY-IV: There is no required on-call during the PG-IV year. Opportunities for paid on-call are available in several of the DepartmentÃs affiliated institutions. These moonlighting opportunities are completely separate from the training experience or requirements.

Evaluation of Performance

The Yale Residency in Psychiatry is organized according to the guidelines specified in the Directory of Graduate Medical Education Programs prepared under the auspices of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) of the American Medical Association. Each resident meets at least twice a year with a faculty member to review in depth all aspects of his/her clinical work. These meetings bring together the impressions of all supervisors and other training faculty having contact with the resident. These sessions not only help the resident understand which aspects of his/her work may need improvement, but also focus upon his/her clinical aspects and potential. The resident reviews summaries of their performance, which are then forwarded to the Resident Review Committee.

In accordance with ACGME requirements for residency programs, a written examination is given each year in PG-II through PG-IV years and an oral clinical examination is given in the PG-III and PG-IV years. It is departmental policy that the results of these examinations are a distinctly secondary factor in the evaluation of residents. Examination performance is used as one source of information to guide the resident's education, and will never be the deciding factor in the overall evaluation of a resident's status in the Program.

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