Our residency program is designed to train general psychiatrists who are flexible, broadly educated, and who are equipped to practice psychiatry in a changing 21st century environment.  We are a diverse and flexible program and try to individualize training based on our residents’ educational and family needs.  We are placing increasing emphasis on manualized therapies such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy while preserving a foundation in traditional insight-oriented therapy.  We have designed most of our rotations so that residents see widely varying degrees of function from the complete spectrum of socio-economic groups.

A unique feature of this program is our Rural Psychiatry Program.  Residents can elect to do the entire fourth year of training in  Marquette, Michigan.  Our partner in the Upper Peninsula (U.P.),  Marquette  General  Hospital, is the sole provider of specialty care for that region of the state, and psychiatrists from  Marquette provide care to many rural community mental health centers in the U.P.  This track trains individuals in rural psychiatry and is a very interesting and useful way to prepare for rural practice.  We currently have 5 psychiatry graduates of the MSU program practicing in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

We find that the broad based training we offer results in our graduates working in very diverse settings.  We have graduates who do work on inpatient units, in solo private outpatient practice settings, Community Mental Health centers, consultation-liaison psychiatry programs, prisons, with groups of psychologists and social workers, in public school programs, and in academics.  They tell us that they feel well prepared for these very different kinds of practice.  About 80% of our graduates stay in the State of  Michigan, and approximately 50% do some work in public sector psychiatry.  The department is a shared department of the College of Human Medicine and the College of Osteopathic Medicine.  The residency program is fully accredited for training by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Osteopathic Association.