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Breadth and Integration

Inpatient training sites include:

Inpatient adult, geriatric, and child & adolescent psychiatric units
Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) and Extended Observation Unit (EOB)
Rochester Regional Forensic Unit, an inpatient unit that treats prisoners with mental health issues.

Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Services
Inpatient Medicine in Psychiatry unit (IMIPS), that includes a half-day per week in the outpatient Medicine in Psychiatry Service–Primary Care (MIPS-PC) office

Outpatient training sites include:

Psychotherapy Training Clinic
Strong Ties, an outpatient clinic for seriously and persistently mental ill patients
The Older Adults Clinic
The Schwarzkopf Clinic, an outpatient clinic associated with Rochester Psychiatric Center, a part the NY State Mental Health system
The Strong Minds Clinic, located downtown and which sees a wide range of patients
The Socio-legal Clinic associated with the Monroe County Jail

The outpatient UR Medicine Gender Wellness, Obstetrics & Gynecology clinics
Highland Family Medicine
The Mobile Crisis Team
Interventional Psychiatry Clinic (Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Therapy
The Healing Connection, for patients with eating disorders
The Pediatric Behavioral Health and Wellness Clinic, for residents in the Child Track

The Department has providers ranging from physicians to psychologists to therapists, and is also a training site for Social Work and Psychology trainees.

The Department is well-integrated within many facets of UR Medicine. This affords opportunities for inter- and multi-specialty and inter- and multi-disciplinary work.

There is a breadth of training opportunities:

General Medicine, both inpatient and outpatient
Geriatrics and Aging
Family Medicine
Community primary care practices
General Pediatrics and subspecialty areas of GI, Endocrinology, Neurology, Rheumatology, and the Kirch Developmental Center
Ob/Gyn Department

Transplant programs, including the Liver, Kidney, and Heart programs, also the LVAD program
Neurology, including Epilepsy, Movement Disorders, and Memory Care
The Cancer Center
Dermatology
Pain Medicine
Eating Disorders

Additional longstanding services in the department:

Strong Recovery, the Department’s outpatient chemical dependency treatment program
The Deaf Wellness Center provides mental health care to deaf patients in Rochester, which has the largest deaf population per capita in the nation
Lazos Fuertes, mental health services for Spanish-speaking patients
Family and Marriage Therapy Services

After Residency:

There are five ACGME-accredited Fellowships for those who wish to deepen their training: Addictions Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, and Geriatric Psychiatry.