Program Curriculum

The Pediatrics-Psychiatry-Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency at the UK College of Medicine offers an integrated five-year training experience shaped by resident feedback. The curriculum promotes continuity across specialties and smooth transitions between rotations. Residents complete a longitudinal pediatric continuity clinic throughout all five years, along with 24 months of pediatrics, 18 months of adult psychiatry, and 18 months of child and adolescent psychiatry.

PGY-1 Curriculum

Pediatrics (13 four-week blocks)
  • 3 blocks — Pediatric Inpatient Wards
  • 1 block — Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
  • 1 block — Pediatric Neurology (outpatient and inpatient)
  • 1 block — Adolescent Medicine
  • 1 block — School Health
  • 1 block — Pediatric Emergency Department
  • 1 block — Newborn Nursery
  • 1 block — Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Ward
  • 1 block — General Pediatrics Clinic
  • 1 block — Pediatric Float
  • 1 block — Pediatric Subspecialty Elective

Longitudinal continuity clinic: Pediatrics (10%)

PGY-2 Curriculum

Pediatrics (4 months)
  • 1 month — Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
  • 1 month — Pediatric Subspecialty Elective
  • 1 month — Pediatric Float
  • 1 month — Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics
Psychiatry (8 months)
  • 5 months — Adult Inpatient Psychiatry at Good Samaritan, Veterans Affairs, and Eastern State hospitals
  • 1 month — Emergency Psychiatry
  • 2 months — Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Longitudinal continuity clinic: Pediatrics (10%)

PGY-3 Curriculum

Pediatrics (4 months)
  • 1 month — Pediatric Subspecialty Elective
  • 1 month — General Pediatrics Clinic
  • 1 month — Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
  • 1 month — Pediatric Inpatient Wards
Psychiatry (8 months)
  • 1 month — Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry
  • 1 month — Inpatient Addiction Psychiatry
  • 6 months — Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic

Longitudinal continuity clinic: Pediatrics (10%)

PGY-4 Curriculum

Pediatrics (4 months)
  • 1 month — Pediatric Emergency Department
  • 1 month — Pediatric Inpatient Wards
  • 1 month — Pediatric Subspecialty Elective
  • 1 month — Pediatric Elective
Psychiatry (2 months)
  • 1 month — Inpatient Adult Neurology Consultations
  • 1 month — Psychiatry Elective, including a 1-week Forensic Psychiatry experience
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (6 months)
  • 3 months — Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • 2 months — Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison and Emergency Services
  • 1 month — Inpatient Child Neurology and Consultations

Longitudinal continuity clinic: Pediatrics (10%)

PGY-5 Curriculum

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (12 months)
  • Yearlong outpatient training includes a continuity clinic, developmental disorders clinic, Department of Juvenile Justice clinic, school-based community clinic, and community residential experience. Elective opportunities include eating disorders, family therapy, intensive outpatient care, trauma-focused care through the Center on Trauma and Children, research, and quality improvement.

Longitudinal continuity clinic: Pediatrics (10%)