RESIDENTS' TOP TEN REASONS FOR CHOOSING JPS
- JPS is located in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, which is a great central location with lots of job opportunities for family members.
- The state of the art Psychiatric Emergency Cetnter is an excellent teaching venue for severe and emergent psychiatric illness. Your experience there prepares you for even the most demanding jobs in psychiatry.
- The team atmosphere offers a supportive and fun environment.
- We treat a high volume of complex patients for a good well rounded exposure to anything you may encounter once practicing on your own.
- Our attending to resident ratio is 1.25:1 meaning you have plenty of supervision in handling complex cases.
- Competitive salary & benefits.
- We have changed the rotations so interns work two months in outpatient family medicine and two months in inpatient medicine instead of four months of inpatient medicine. The work load is lighter on outpatient medicine, and the medical complaints are more relevant to what you need to know in clinical practice.
- Cost of living in Fort Worth is very affordable.
- Residents serve as expert witnesses in court for commitment hearings. This is an excellent learning experience for learning how to testify in a court setting.
- Lots of free food! The cafeteria allows residents a $10 a day allowance and there are catered lunches at least once a week.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
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Our general psychiatry residency is a four year program which is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and also by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). We emphasize developing neuropsychiatric skills including the neurologic examination, neuropsychological evaluation of cognitive disorders and neuroimaging. |
Residents are exposed to biological, psychological and sociocultural theories of human behavior, methods of prevention, diagnosis, and clinical intervention and research projects. Residents learn to diagnose mental illness, to ascertain individual and family needs, to assess the social context of mental illness, to formulate treatment plans and to make appropriate interventions, including follow up. Residents also learn somatic therapies, such psychopharmacology & ECT, as well as psychotherapy and the proper utilization of outside resources, such as vocational rehabilitation, 12-step programs and the legal system.
Resident performance is monitored through written evaluations by clinical service chiefs at the end of each rotation and by psychotherapy supervisors every six months. The residency director meets with each resident semiannually to discuss all evaluations and to help individualize training goals. Clinical records are regularly reviewed to evaluate a resident's ability to record an adequate history, mental status, physical and neurological examination, justification for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and discharge summary.
Residents take the Psychiatric Residents In Training Examination (PRITE) and the Columbia Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Exam each year to help assess their progress, identify strengths & weaknesses and assist in preparation for general psychiatry certification examinations taken after graduation. They also participate in mock oral examinations in which they interview a patient, present the case, and answer questions about the case in the presence of a faculty member and as well as a small group of peers. Faculty members, who have served as examiners for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, are among those who critique the interview & its presentation. Research projects are a required part of the residency program and a variety of research mentors are available to assist. Junior and senior medical students rotate through the department and house staff are an intimate p