Curriculum & Rotation Schedule

The first two years of training for all residents are hospital-based at Novant Health, with a few exceptions. Military residents do a block of inpatient psychiatry and a block of combined emergency department/consult-liaison at Camp Lejeune to experience the differences between civilian and military psychiatry. Civilians have the option to experience these offerings as selectives.

The third year of training is spent in a variety of longitudinal outpatient clinics, providing broad exposure to different settings and patient populations. Settings include providing integrated psychiatry services at a Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinic, rotating with a local Assertive Community Treatment Team, a child and adolescent psychiatry clinic, a general adult psychiatry clinic, and individual psychotherapy clinic. Military residents will do most of their clinics at Camp Lejeune. Civilians may or may not spend some time in outpatient care at Camp Lejeune.

The fourth year can be a blend of inpatient and outpatient experiences to prepare for transition to independent practice, including acting attending blocks.

PGY-1

• Adult inpatient psychiatry unit: 3 blocks
• Geriatric inpatient psychiatry unit: 1 block
• Emergency department behavioral health observation: 1 block
• Internal medicine: 3 blocks
• Emergency medicine: 1 block
• Neurology: 2 blocks
• Selective (inpatient, outpatient, or scholarly project): 2 blocks

PGY-2 

• Consultation-liaison psychiatry: 4 blocks
• Emergency department behavioral health observation: 3 blocks
• Adult inpatient psychiatry unit: 4 blocks
• Selective (inpatient, outpatient, or scholarly project): 2 blocks

PGY-3

• Outpatient medication management and therapy clinics
• Selective outpatient or scholarly project 

PGY-4

Customized blend of inpatient, outpatient, selective and/or research/scholarly project blocks and psychotherapy continuity patients