Department of Psychiatry

Psychiatry Residency Program

Training Sites

The program utilizes 4 primary affiliates in order to offer optimal clinical training rotations in diverse settings, exposure to a full range of demographic, cultural, and clinical populations, and maximize elective and research options for residents. 

University of Colorado Hospital (UCH)
Located at the Anschutz Medical Campus, this beautiful state-of-the-art facility is the tertiary care leader of the Rocky Mountain Region.  It embraces a patient-centered philosophy and serves both private and public sectors.  UCH hosts a consultation-liaison psychiatry service that interfaces with the full range of emergency inpatient and ambulatory medical specialties. The UCH outpatient psychiatry service is located in Building 500 and is the primary training site for outpatient psychiatry and psychotherapy. It features advanced technology for psychotherapy observation and skill-building.

UCH’s Center for Dependency, Addiction, and Recovery (CeDAR) is located on the west side of the Anschutz Medical Campus and provides intensive residential recovery services for persons with substance use disorders. 

Denver Health Medical Center  
Denver Health Medical Center is the primary safety net hospital serving the City and County of Denver.  Psychiatry services are a key component of the DHMC mission.  The inpatient services for adults and adolescents utilize a crisis intervention model.  Other services include forensic/correctional psychiatry, a large psychiatric emergency service, outpatient addiction psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, and consultation to neighborhood health clinics.
The Department of Veterans Administration Medical Center 
The Denver Veterans Administration Medical Center has major psychiatric research and clinical programs including a Schizophrenia Research Center.  Here, veterans obtain comprehensive psychiatric services including emergency treatment, inpatient services, alcohol and drug treatment, PTSD residential treatment, and outpatient treatment.  The VA is a leader in innovative clinical services for veterans, including the use of telepsychiatry to reach those in rural areas of Colorado.  The VAMC broke ground in august 2009 for its planned new facility on the Anschutz Medical Campus
The Children’s Hospital
The Children’s Hospital is a private, non-profit, tertiary-care pediatric hospital which serves the Denver metropolitan area, Colorado, and the greater Rocky Mountain region.  Psychiatry services include inpatient and intensive outpatient services for children and adolescents, day treatment, outpatient services, eating disorder treatment, and consultation-liaison services.  Marianne Wamboldt, MD, the Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Children’s Hospital, leads a multidisciplinary team of experts in children’s mental health, including child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers.
 

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