Congratulations! You’ve found your way through years of dedicated effort to the Psychiatry Residency in Evansville.
We’re a new program built on the deep experience of Indiana University School of Medicine for medical education and the wide-ranging clinical expertise of Deaconess Health System with the express aim of supporting new doctors as they become our psychiatric colleagues. Our residents will train in a midsize city that offers exposure to rural, suburban and urban patient populations, state-hospital psychiatric care, residential addiction services, specialized inpatient services and the full gamut of outpatient mental health treatment as well as innovative programs such as jail-based competency restoration and mobile crisis response. We have access to a huge database of de-identified psychiatric data and a team of academic professionals to enable scholarly publication. And we’re still growing, so residents have ample opportunities to chart their own courses with enthusiastic faculty and community backing!
Our program emphasizes the importance of enduring therapeutic relationships. We incorporate psychotherapy into every patient interaction (rather that separating it from psychopharmacology) and utilize a developmental perspective to guide every intervention. Residents see psychiatric outpatients each week throughout their training — even during primary care and neurology months — developing a steady cohort of their own patients, practicing long term psychotherapy and celebrating treatment progress. Didactics focus on real-world applications of the collected wisdom in our field. Supervision is robust at the outset and fades to unobtrusive as the residents gain competence and confidence. We aim to develop whole persons who can lead psychiatric treatment teams, improve their communities and enjoy fulfilling lives.
Welcome! I look forward to reviewing your career goals and assisting the pursuit of your aspirations.
