Program Overview

Introduction to the Milwaukee Residency Program

The Milwaukee Residency Program is a fully accredited program that offers both four-year and three-year options for individuals pursuing psychiatric training. The program aims to develop residents into psychiatrists who provide excellent, compassionate, and comprehensive care for psychiatric patients.

Program Overview

Our goal is to provide a stimulating environment for the education and training of tomorrow's psychiatrist. We believe that the cornerstone to learning psychiatry is understanding the patient, which means spending time with patients to learn not only about their symptoms but also about their lives.

Educational Approach

Our educational program focuses on four approaches:

• Direct patient responsibility
• Didactic teaching through lectures, seminars, and case conferences
• Clinical supervision
• Reflection

Teaching provides the conceptual base for patient care, while supervision provides the integration. A key part of psychiatry is also reflecting on oneself one's response to patients, where one needs to improve their knowledge, and how to support colleagues.

Clinical and Research Components

To strong clinical and teaching components in psychodynamics and cognitive and behavioral therapy (CBT), and services in inpatient and general hospital psychiatry, we have added a growing clinical and basic science research base. In conjunction with our various affiliates, we offer a balance of training in both public and private sector psychiatry.

Fellowships

Our department offers fellowships in:

• Addiction Psychiatry
• Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• Consultation Liaison Psychiatry
• Geriatric Psychiatry
• Forensic Psychiatry We also have a Sleep Medicine Fellowship and Palliative Care Fellowship that can be pursued by graduates of psychiatry training programs.

Department and Leadership

I am excited and proud to work with our Chair, Dr. Jon Lehrmann. As past president of the Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP), a former Residency Training Director, and himself a graduate of our program, Dr. Lehrmann makes education a priority in our department.

Non-Discrimination Statement

The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is committed to fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students, as well as ensuring equal educational opportunity, employment, and access to services, programs, and activities, without regard to an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristic, military status, or other legally protected classification. MCW maintains full compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations in pursuit of our missions.