The Career Program is jointly sponsored by the psychiatry residency and its public mental health partners. The objective of the career program is to provide residents with an in-depth exposure to public psychiatry while still in training and to foster career development in community and state mental health systems. Residents enroll in the program at the beginning of the PGY-2 year and are given a leave of absence after the PGY-3 year in order to perform a year of staff service at a public sector mental health facility. Participating residents are paid the standard salary set by the sponsoring institution for the service year; this salary is partly prepaid during the training years as a supplement to the regular residency stipend.
Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo - This site provides experience in state hospital community psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. While at the Mental Health Institute, the career resident is given the opportunity to plan and initiate treatment plans, as well as continuing the experience of following patients who have been hospitalized and then discharged to the community.
The Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo is widely recognized as one of the most progressive community-oriented state hospitals in the United States. The Mental Health Institute is a public psychiatric hospital, part of Colorado’s mental health care system. It is located on 300 acres in northwest Pueblo, about 2 hours south of Denver. The Institute works with community mental health centers, specialty mental health clinics and other mental health professionals, patients and their families to prepare patients to return to their homes and communities. The career residents have played a vital, indispensable role in the continuing excellence at the hospital.
Colorado Mental Health Institute at Ft. Logan - Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan is a state psychiatric hospital located in the southwestern part of Denver. Career residents work as inpatient attendings in one of several acute inpatient settings: adult, adolescent, geriatrics or substance abuse.
The hospital operates under the direction of the Colorado Department of Human Services. Fort Logan is licensed by the Colorado Department of Health; accredited by the Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO), and approved for Medicaid and Medicare. Fort Logan’s teaching mission also includes programs for psychologists, social workers, registered nurses, recreational, occupational and music therapists, and pastoral education.
Mental Health Center of Denver - The MHCD career program was instituted in 1994. MHCD provides outpatient services to consumers residing in the City and County of Denver with serious and persistent mental illnesses. Residents will work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team providing a wide range of outpatient care using a recovery model.
MHCD offers an array of services to individuals with psychiatric crises; major mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression; and children of families at risk. MHCD employs over 400 full time part time professionals to provide a range of services at 32 sites for more than 7000 people each year. All services provided ensure that each consumer may achieve his goal of a stable and fulfilling life in the community.
