Rotations and Electives

PGY 1

• Three (3) months of Family Practice at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center
• One (1) month of outpatient Internal Medicine at Husson Internal Medicine
• Two (2) months of Neurology at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center
• Two (2) months of Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry at Northern Light Acadia Hospital
• Four (4) months of Inpatient Psychiatry on the Adult unit at Northern Light Acadia Hospital
• Didactic Day: PGY 1 Trainees will participate in didactics offered by the Northern Light Family Medicine Program as well as a half-day of didactics with the other Psychiatry Residents at Northern Light Acadia Hospital during the five months on inpatient services at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center. For the other seven months of programming in their PGY1 year, the Trainees will participate in full-day didactics on Thursdays at Northern Light Acadia Hospital. All PGY 1 Residents will receive basic lectures on core psychiatric knowledge and practice as well as other subjects.

PGY 2

• Four (4) months of Inpatient Psychiatry on the Adult unit at Northern Light Acadia Hospital
• One (1) month of Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Northern Light Acadia Hospital
• Three (3) months of Emergency Psychiatry/Consultation Liaison at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center
• One (1) month of Neuromodulation at Northern Light Acadia Hospital (includes ECT as well as TMS up to one day per week at a Faculty member’s private practice)
• Three (3) months: Flex time at Northern Light Acadia Hospital, Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, and other sites as determined by the program's director
• Didactic Day: PGY 2 Trainees will have Didactic Day every Thursday which will include formal lectures, seminars, wellness, journal club, as well as time to work on projects or study.

PGY 3

• Residents will spend their third year in Resident Continuity Clinic at Northern Light Acadia Hospital. While all this work is outpatient focused, the week is structured such that 50% of the patient work will be the assessment and medication management of adult psychiatric patients, 25% will be geriatric psychiatry patients, 20% will be addiction medicine patients, with the remaining 5% being the Residents’ therapy patients or Child and Adolescent patients.
• Didactic Day:  PGY 3 Trainees will have Didactic Day every Thursday which will include formal lectures, seminars, wellness, journal club, as well as time to work on projects or study.
• Quality Project

PGY 4

• Nine (9) months of outpatient psychiatry at Northern Light Acadia Hospital. This is a rapid-access, wrap-around clinic model focused on the short-term assessment and stabilization of outpatient psychiatric patients. 
• Three (3) months of elective time which can include more advanced clinical work on any of our services, work with any number of potential community partners, and/or research activities.
• Didactic Day: PGY 4 Trainees will have Didactic Day every Thursday which will include formal lectures, seminars, wellness, journal club, as well as time to work on projects or study.
• Research Project