Creighton University School of Medicine Maricopa Medical Center (Phoenix) Psychiatry Residency Program
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Didactic & Rotation Schedule

All classes are scheduled in protected educational time, during which residents have no clinical duties. Almost all classes occur on one day/week. Residents have supervision scheduled in a manner that favors didactic attendance over other clinical responsibilities.

WEEKLY EVENTS FOR ALL RESIDENTS
  • Journal Club
  • Departmental Case Conferences
  • Departmental Continuing Medical Education
  • Clinical Case Conference
  • PRITE Preparation
YEAR ONE
​Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY-1) Rotations

Didactic Courses
  • Introductory Psychiatric Toolbox
  • History of Psychiatry
  • Evidence Based Psychiatry and Research Methods 
  • Views of Mind:  Cognitive, Behavioral, Psychodynamic Theories
  • Psychiatric Interviewing
  • Neurology
  • Introduction to Neurobiology/ Psychopharmacology
  • Psychiatric Syndromes and Therapeutics I (Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders)
  • Personality Disorders
  • Community Resources
  • Psychological Testing
  • Behavioralism
YEAR TWO
​Post-Graduate Year 2 (PGY-2) Rotations
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Didactic Courses
  • Psychopharmacology II
  • Human Development and Interruptions of Normal Development
  • Psychiatric Syndromes and Therapeutics II
  • Substance Use Disorders
  • Introduction to Psychotherapy
  • Supportive Psychotherapy
  • Cognitive/-Behavioral Therapy
  • Legal Issues


YEAR THREE
​Post-Graduate Year 3 (PGY-3) Rotations
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Didactic Courses
  • Child/Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychopharmocology
  • Brief Psychotherapies
  • Sexual and Marital Therapy
  • Family Therapy
  • Group Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Therapy and Case Conference
  • Administrative Psychiatry / Careers
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
  • DBT Consultation Group
  • Process Group
  • Outpatient Psychopharmacology
  • Advanced Biological Psychiatry
  • Quality Improvement Project


YEAR FOUR
Post-Graduate Year 4 (PGY-4) Rotations
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Didactic Courses
  • Advanced Biological Psychiatry
  • Career Planning
  • Administrative Psychiatry
  • Psychodynamic Therapy and Case Conference
  • DBT Consultation Group
  • Culture and Psychiatry
  • Board Review, Psychiatry
  • Board Review, Neurology