Rotation Assignment Example
(individual schedules vary depending on academic trajectory)
Year 1:
- 3-4 months Inpatient Psychiatry
- 3-4 months Consult / Liaison (CL) Psychiatry
- 4 months Internal Medicine/Urgent Care (1-2 inpatient; 2-3 outpatient)
- 1-2 months Neurology
*Plus Emergency Psychiatry experience on call
Year 2:
- Up to 3 months Selectives
- Up to 8 months Inpatient Psychiatry / CL Psychiatry
- Up to 1 month of Emergency Psychiatry (plus experience on call)
- Up to 2 months Neurology (if not completed during Year 1)
- Up to 1 month of Child Psychiatry
- Up to 1 month of Addiction Psychiatry
*Plus Emergency Psychiatry experience on call and one half day each week of outpatient psychiatry
Year 3:
- 12 months Outpatient Psychiatry, including one half day each week of Outpatient Child Psychiatry
- Specialty clinics (rotating one-half day each): Movement Disorders clinic, Autism and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities clinic, Serious Mental Illness (SMI) clinic, OCD and Related Disorders clinic, Family Medicine Consult Psychiatry clinic
- Optional: one half day of Street Psychiatry; one half day of research time
Year 4:
*Flexible depending on career goals after residency
- Up to 1 month Addiction (if not completed in Year 2)
- Up to 1 month Child and Adolescent (if not completed in Year 2)
- Up to 1 month Geriatric
- Up to 1 month Forensics
- Up to 2 months Community
- Up to 6 months of electives
- Up to 3 months of Inpatient Psychiatry / CL Psychiatry
- Up to 4 months of Junior Attending or Senior Rotations
*Plus one half day each week of adult outpatient psychiatry and up to one half day of peripartum outpatient psychiatry
Possible Electives (E1-E6): Therapy (CBT, ERP, PCIT), ECT/Neuromodulation, Junior Attending, State Hospital, Sleep Medicine, VA Community Rotation, Teaching Resident (delete teaching resident), and more!
Vacation time can be taken at any time throughout the year each year upon approval from supervisors and Program Director, and rotation coverage.
Night Float
- Approximately 2-3 week-long rotations where residents work overnight and gain experience in inpatient and CL psychiatry
- First year residents do night float from Sunday evening through Saturday morning from 8pm-8am. They cover consults from UF Health Shands Hospital and the VA during their shift, as well as emergencies on the VA inpatient units. Residents have the option of staying home or using overnight rooms at the VA or UF Health Shands Hospital.
- PGY2 residents do night float from Sunday evening through Friday morning from 11pm-7am. They cover UF Health Shands Psychiatric Hospital during this shift. Residents are required to be in house.
- PGY1 and PGY2 residents are paired to complete a Night Bridge rotation on Sundays from 7PM-12AM and Mondays-Thursdays from 4PM-12AM. They cover UF Health Shands Psychiatric Hospital during this shift. Residents are required to be in house.
- PGY3 and PGY4 residents do not have night float
Call Duties:
Call is taken only by 1st and 2nd year residents.
- Weekend call- There are two types of weekend call:
- UF Health Shands Call: Shands resident is responsible for seeing follow up patients that were signed out by the weekday consult team and any new consults that come during their shift. They cover UF Health Shands. This is from 8am-8pm.
- VA Ward call: Ward call resident is responsible for rounding and writing notes on half of the inpatients at VA and half of the new consults. PGY1s are paired with PGY2s who see the other half of the patients. This is from 8am-8pm.
- Weekday call- There are two types of weekday calls:
- UF Health Shands Short call: Shands short call is from 4pm-8pm and the resident is responsible for seeing any new consults at UF Health Shands. They sign out to night float resident at 8pm, and call is considered home call.
- VA short call: VA short call is from 4-8pm and the resident is responsible for covering the inpatient units and consults at the VA. Residents must go in to do consults, direct admissions, and for certain medical emergencies (chest pain, falls, seizures, and seclusion/restraint), otherwise call is from home. They sign out to night float at 8pm.