ACGME Requirements
In the process of completing their training here at LLUMC psychiatry, residents will have met all training guidelines required by the ACGME.
(Information in parenthesis is ACGME requirement)
- 4 months of primary care during PGY1 year in internal medicine, pediatrics, or family medicine (4 months minimum)
- 2 months of adult neurology (2 months minimum with at least one month with adults)
- 9 months of adult inpatient psychiatry (6 months adult inpatient minimum)
- 12 months of continuous adult outpatient psychiatry (12 months minimum)
- 3-4 months of child and adolescent psychiatry (2 months minimum)
- 1-2 months of geriatric psychiatry (1 month minimum)
- 1-2 months of addictions psychiatry (1 month minimum)
- 2-3 months of consult and liaison psychiatry (2 months minimum)
- 2-4 months of forensic psychiatry (exposure required - no established minimum)
- At least 1 month of emergency psychiatry - 1 month of ECT (exposure required - no established minimum)
- At least 1 month of community psychiatry - 1 afternoon per week for one year in a community psychiatry clinic (exposure required - no established minimum)
- Didactics-mediated learning of covering all of, but not limited to, the following:
- Theoretical approaches to understanding patient-doctor relationship (required)
- Factors (biological, genetic, psychological, sociocultural, economic, ethnic, gender, religious/spiritual, sexual orientation, and family) significantly influencing physical and psychological development throughout life (required)
- Fundamental principles of the epidemiology, etiologies, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of all major psychiatric disorders in the current standard diagnostic statistical manual (required)
- Diagnosis and treatment of neurologic disorders commonly encountered in psychiatric practice (required)
- Use, reliability, and validity of the generally-accepted diagnostic techniques (required)
- Use and interpretation of psychological testing (required)
- History of psychiatry and its relationship to the evolution of medicine (required)
- Legal aspects of psychiatric practice, and when and how to refer (required)
- Understanding of American culture and subcultures (required)
- Use of case formulation that includes neurobiological, phenomenological, psychological, and sociocultural issues involved in the diagnosis and management of cases (required)
- Education in research literacy and evidence-based clinical practice skills, including question formulation, information searching, critical appraisal, and medical decision-making (required)
- Bimonthly Journal Club for PGY3s and PGY4s, open to all residents (required)
