Our Psychiatry residents are encouraged to develop and pursue a variety of clinical, administrative, educational or research tracts during PGY-IV to complement the required rotations and didactics and to further their individual interests.
Several well-supervised elective experiences are available at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center or at affiliated sites in the community and currently include:
- Administrative Resident Positions in outpatient, consultation and inpatient settings
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorders Program at the VAMC
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Sleep Disorders Center at BGSMC
- Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
- Substance Abuse Programs
- Phoenix Indian Medical Center Outpatient Clinic and outreach to reservations
- Child Psychiatry inpatient, consultation and outpatient experiences
- Adolescent Psychiatry
- Geriatric Psychiatry
- Emergency Psychiatry
- Research projects
- Psychopharmacology
- Banner's Alzheimer's Institute
- Memory Disorders Program
- Transcultural Community Psychiatry
- Toxicology
- Translational Genomics
Elective Seminars
- Research Design Seminar
- Biostatistics Seminar
- Medical Epidemiology Seminar
- . . . and others