Rotations
The first two years of training consist of 13 rotation blocks (4 weeks long) at both UCLA and the West Los Angeles VA, with one block each spent at the Sepulveda VA and the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center during PGY-1.
PGY-1
- Psychiatry
- UCLA Inpatient (2 months)
- VA Inpatient (2 months)
- Neuromodulation (2 weeks)
- Harbor Emergency Psychiatry (1 month)
- UCLA Emergency Psychiatry/ Vacation (2 weeks each)
- UCLA Night Float / Vacation (2 weeks each)
- Medicine
- VA Medicine Wards / Geriatric Medicine (2 weeks each)
- VA Emergency Medicine
- VA Ambulatory Medicine
- VA DOM Medicine (2 weeks)
- Track-Specific Medicine Rotation (2 weeks)
- Mid-Wilshire Track: Internal Medicine Consult Service
- Greater Los Angeles Track: Homeless Healthcare Collaborative
- Westwood Track: UCLA Pediatric Urgent Care
- Research Track: One of the above
- Neurology
- VA Neurology Consults / Outpatient Neurology (2 weeks each)
- UCLA Neurology Consults / Epilepsy Service (2 weeks each)
PGY-2
- UCLA Inpatient (1-3 months, depending on the track)
- VA Inpatient (1-3 months, depending on the track)
- UCLA Geriatric Inpatient (1 month)
- UCLA Child Inpatient (2 months)
- Greater Los Angeles Track: Option to substitute 1 month for Adolescent Emergency Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA
- UCLA C/L (2 months)
- Greater Los Angeles Track: 1 month of C/L at the VA
- UCLA Emergency Psychiatry (1 month, primarily Mid-Wilshire Track)
- VA Domiciliary Substance Rehabilitation (1 month, Greater Los Angeles Track only)
- Psychiatry Elective (1 month, Mid-Wilshire and Greater Los Angeles Tracks)
- UCLA Night Float (2 weeks)
- VA Night Float (2 weeks)
- Vacation (4 weeks)
PGY-3 and 4
To learn more about the clinics you can take in the third and fourth year of training, please visit our Clinics page!
Inpatient Psychiatry
Emergency Psychiatry
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Night Float
Neuromodulation
Psychiatry Elective
Medicine
Neurology
Inpatient Psychiatry
- Residents do several months of inpatient psychiatry at both the UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital and the West Los Angeles VA Hospital during both PGY-1 and 2.
- Depending on the Track that the resident is in, they may spend more time at UCLA or the VA.
- Many rotations involve PGY-1 and 2 residents working alongside each other, allowing junior residents to learn from their more experienced seniors.
- Subspecialty rotations done in an inpatient setting include:
- Geriatric Psychiatry
- Child Psychiatry
Emergency Psychiatry
- Residents across all Tracks will have similar core experiences in emergency psychiatry.
- All residents will do one block of emergency psychiatry in the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, with exposure to a county population.
- Residents will also do emergency psychiatry in the UCLA Emergency Department (2 weeks in PGY-1 and more in PGY-2 depending on the Track).
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
- All residents will do 2 blocks of C/L psychiatry in PGY-2 primarily at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
- Residents in the Greater Los Angeles Track will do 1 of these blocks at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center.
Night Float
- Residents will do a total of 6 weeks of night float, with this time being split between 2 weeks at UCLA in PGY-1, 2 weeks at UCLA in PGY-2, and 2 weeks at the VA in PGY-2.
- The 2 weeks spent on night float are generally paired with 2 weeks on vacation, allowing for a period of rest and readjustment.
Neuromodulation
- All residents in the Mid-Wilshire, GLA, and Westwood Tracks will have a 2-week experience in Neuromodulation during PGY-1 in order to gain crucial early exposure to this rapidly developing area of psychiatry.
- Residents will gain familiarity with modalities such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), magnetic peripheral nerve stimulation (mPNS), and ketamine.
Psychiatry Elective
- Residents in the Mid-Wilshire and GLA Tracks have a 4-week block where they can choose an elective in an area of psychiatry. Current elective offerings include:
- Olive View-DMH Urgent Care Center
- The People Concern Skid Row Clinic
- Palliative Care
- Neuromodulation
- Child CL/ER
- MHICM
- VA DOM
- UCLA-Kern
- Child Partial
- Residents in the Westwood Track will engage in earlier outpatient experiences in PGY-2 in lieu of their elective.
- Residents in the Research Track will have additional research time in lieu of their elective.
Medicine
- The ACGME requires that all psychiatry residents have 4 months of full-time experience in general medicine and primary care settings during PGY-1.
- The first rotation will be a combination of 2 weeks of VA general internal medicine wards and 2 weeks of VA geriatric medicine wards.
- The second rotation will be 4 weeks of VA emergency medicine.
- The third rotation will be 4 weeks of outpatient medicine at the Sepulveda VA Medical Center.
- The fourth rotation will be a Medicine Elective that depends on the resident’s Track, allowing for a focused medicine experience that aligns with the goals of that Track:
- Mid-Wilshire Track: Internal Medicine Consult Service focused on evaluating and treating the medical needs of psychiatric inpatients hospitalized at the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital.
- Greater Los Angeles Track: UCLA Homeless Healthcare Collaborative focused on providing medical services to unhoused patients.
- Westwood Track: Pediatric Urgent Care focused on treating the non-emergent medical needs of children and adolescents.
Neurology
- The ACGME requires that all psychiatry residents have 2 months of full-time experience in neurology. Both months take place during PGY-1.
- The first month is a combination of 2 weeks of UCLA neurology consults and 2 weeks on the UCLA epilepsy monitoring unit.
- The second month a combination of 2 weeks of VA neurology consults and 2 weeks of various outpatient neurology clinics.