Special Tracks

Integrated Track

This unique track within the psychiatry and child/adolescent psychiatry residencies integrates training in psychiatry, child & adolescent psychiatry, and research throughout the PGY-1 through PGY-5 years.  This track leads to a 6th year of funded, full-time research in child & adolescent psychiatry.  The primary goal of the integrated track is to prepare clinician-scientists for future academic roles in child psychiatry. [More...]

Research Track

This is a unique track within the psychiatry residency that incorporates research experiences and training throughout the PGY-1 through PGY-4 years.  Identification of a project and mentor begins early in the PGY-1 year, with protected time allotted for research in all 4 years.  This track maximizes research time and training concurrently with acquiring clinical competence in psychiatry; its goal is to develop clinician-scientists for future academic roles in psychiatry.

Child Interest Track

This clinical track offers rotation options in child and adolescent settingsduring the PGY-1 thorugh PGY-4 years, including pediatrics, pediatric neurology, and inpatient, outpatient, and consult-liaison in child & adolescent psychiatry.  The objectives of this track are to enhance the developmental perspective in psychiatry, provide early exposure to child and adolescent clinical settings, and to foster career development in child & adolescent psychiatry. 

Career Program

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. 

Currently, the Mental Health Center of Denver is participating in this program

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.

updated October 30, 2007