Psychiatry
Summary:
Survey Results Concerning 2001 Psychiatry Residency/
Fellowship Programs in the Philadelphia Area
Sections (scroll down or click on section name listed
below):
Introduction
Participants
Limitations
Notes/Acknowledgements
Number
of residency/fellowship programs
contacted in the Philadelphia area
Total number of residents/fellows in all
programs surveyed
Breakdown into specialties
Community Rotation Residency
sites
Subsequent Employment
ACCURACY: Every effort has been made to assure that this data was
accurate at the time
of the survey, including asking the participating institutions to review the
final
survey. If apparent inaccuracies are noted anywhere in this summary,
please
contact Connections and inform us.
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Introduction:
The survey was conducted in October and November of 2001,
in response to
a need perceived by Connections for basic information on area psychiatry
resident
programs, especially in regard to community psychiatry specialties and
placements.
Information sought included how many programs and residents/fellows exist,
what specialties are offered, how many resident placements are in community
settings
in the Philadelphia area, and how many residents/fellows remain in community
settings
after completing their programs. A primary goal in conducting the survey was to
gather information for a pilot initiative by Connections involving a
collaborative effort
between a psychiatry program, a Behavioral Health System (BHS) care provider,
and BHS administrative agencies.
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This survey included psychiatry
residency programs in the Philadelphia area, plus
one in Pittsburgh for purposes of comparison. Universities and institutions
surveyed:
Thomas Jefferson University
University of Pennsylvania
MCP
Hahnemann University
Albert Einstein Medical Center--Albert Einstein Healthcare Network/Jefferson Health System
Temple University
Western Psychiatric Institute
Limitations:
The survey results reflect all faculty, administrators, and administrative staff
who
had responded to the survey by 11/29/01. Since some of those contacted did not
respond,
information on their programs is missing.
Information on numbers of residents and placement sites can change quickly; one
program
lost two residents during the two months of the survey.
Several programs kept no records on subsequent employment of their graduates,
and in some cases reports of subsequent employment are anecdotal.
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Participants were given the
chance to correct information and offered a copy of the final report.
The survey was conducted by Lizbeth Herbert, Connections Consultant, and written
by
Max Molinaro, Ph.D., Connections Coordinator.
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Summary of Results of Philadelphia Area Programs
Number of residency/fellowship programs
contacted in the Philadelphia area:
5
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Total number of residents/fellows in all programs surveyed:
(Note: Some figures obtained were estimates/ranges and in
some cases it was unclear if fellowships were included with
general or other psychiatry residents):
Between 157 and 168
Breakdown into
specialties:
Addiction Psychiatry:
1
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry:
12
Geriatric Psychiatry:
5
Mood and Anxiety Disorders subspecialty:
? (no information provided)
Neuroscience and
Psychopharmacology:
4
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Community Rotation Residency sites:
Philadelphia area:
Wills Geriatric Unit
Psychiatric ER Service at Einstein
Jefferson Intensive Substance Abuse Treatment Program
Jefferson Methadone and Cocaine Program
Inpatient clinic at Jefferson Hospital
Outpatient clinic at Thomas Jefferson University.
Einstein Crisis Response Center
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Einstein in-patient
Alternative Treatment Assessment Center
Youth Study Center
Juvenile Justice Center
SAP Team at Einstein
CRC at Einstein
Belmont Adolescent Unit
Devereux
MCP
Hahneman Hospital inpatient and outpatient
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Temple Hospital inpatient/outpatient and ER
Northwest Center
COMHAR
Hall Mercer in PA Hospital
Horizon House
Interac
Other areas:
Crozier Chester psychiatric emergency room and substance abuse program.
Wilmington Medical Center/Christiana Care
Subsequent Employment:
Note: due to the variation in type of
information reported in this category,
the following is simply a listing of
the various responses from the programs.
Emphasis is added in all cases.
Please see the survey results for
full details and Western
Psychiatric Institute response.
Responses to request for data on subsequent employment of residency program
graduates:
"Most wind up staying on and off
in community agencies. One is continuing at Comhar;
others transiently passed
through Northwest Mental Health."
"Do not track any residents after
they are finished with the program."
"One of last year's residents
is known to be full time at Horizon House and one is at
CBH in Delaware."
"Both Fellows from last year were
non citizens and had to move to under-served areas in
Washington and Ohio."
No tracking of residents after
they leave the program, but one third of the residents are
believed to have
begun their post-residency work in community mental health positions.
One fellow went to a CBH-funded
Hospital Diversion program and one is in private practice and
also works some
time at Crozier
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One program director estimated
that 80%
of graduates stay in the area.
Of the 80% that stay in the area:
30%
go into fellowship training;
50%
go into a practice;
20%
go to CBH. (?)
Of
the 20% that leave:
10%
go into Fellowship training
10%
do their J1 Waiver work
In the past two years, out of
five or six graduates, two are known to be in the area, one at Friends and one
at University of Pennsylvania.
In 2001:
One went to Einstein
One to Erie
In
2000:
One to rural SC and one to Oregon
(These three, Erie, SC and Oregon, were all on visas
which required them to go to underserved areas)
In
1999
One at Philadelphia in a few PT practices
One at Jefferson as a
Child Fellow
In 1998
One in Providence
ã
2001 by
Philadelphia Connections
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