Psychiatry Residency Program Electives

Our Psychiatry residents are encouraged to develop and pursue a variety of part-time clinical, administrative, educational or research tracts especially 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
• Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
• Substance Abuse Programs
• 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
• Women's Mental Health
• Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic
• Palliative Care

Elective Seminars

• Research Design Seminar
• Biostatistics Seminar
• Medical Epidemiology Seminar
• Others