School of Medicine

 

The LSU-Ochsner Adult Psychiatry Residency Program is dedicated to training leaders in the field of psychiatry. 

Each year, we accept 12 applicants into our program. After four years of an individualized education, we also offer the opportunity to continue specialized training though one of our several fellowship programs, including Consult-Liaison, Addiction Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry.

Some of the many benefits of the program include:

 

Clinical Experience:

Residents get training in a wide variety of sites and setting, including both public and private, a variety of different inpatient units (mood, psychosis, dual-diagnosis, etc), correctional centers across the state, ECT training from PGY-2 through PGY-4, Behavioral Health Emergency Room as a PGY-1, and outpatient longitudinal care beginning as a PGY-2 and continuing through PGY-4! As a result of the variety of training settings and diversity of New Orleans, our residents get training many different pathologies and acuities.

 

Curriculum:

Our curriculum is carefully designed to include both lecture-based didactics and interactive discussions, in theoretical developments, evidenced-based practices, psychotherapy, and biological approaches.

We emphasize learning about identity and the unique characteristics of the diverse populations that live in the region.

 

Work-Life Balance:

We prioritize resident wellness, through relaxed call schedule (residents make their own call schedule, no call as a PGY-3 or PGY-4, never any weekday call, etc), dedicated protected time (retreats, journal clubs, process groups, and resident-only meetings, etc), and continually assessing and decreasing common resident stressors (meal cards, centralized hospital sites, common EMR, etc).

 

New Orleans:

New Orleans is one of the most unique cities in the world. Living in New Orleans provides an experience that can't be replicated simply by visiting or spending short periods of time here.The experience our residents enjoy is steeped in the culture and unique benefits our wonderful city provides and is often one of the most impactful aspects residents, faculty, and staff have while at LSU. Our residents frequently enjoy these benefits and often incorporate them into our retreats and weekly meetings.

We're confident in our quality of training in the unique and diverse environment of New Orleans. If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to reach out!

 

LSUHSC Community Engagement:

As an institution of higher learning, LSUHSC embraces a culture where everyone works for the betterment of the individual and community. Leadership, faculty, staff, and learner educational experience enables us to better address healthcare inequities and cultural competency in clinical care. The welcoming community and patient population that LSUHSC fosters trainees' understanding and effective delivery of care to individuals of unique backgrounds, which is integral to the institution's academic mission. As a community, LSUHSC embraces the full range of human difference.

 

To demonstrate LSU's commitment to community and institutional values, an Assistant Vice Chancellor for Office of Community Engagement is charged with creating programs for successful recruitment and retention of faculty, staff, and students from all communities to foster excellence in research, education, patient care and community service.

 

Specifically, the School of Medicine's Office of Community Engagement has a series to develop awareness, literacy and acknowledgement of the structural frameworks which intersect in the space health care inequities, and disparities.

 

LSUHSC New Orleans welcomes, needs, and celebrates its strong voices. Our training program is our present and future and serves a beautiful community. We are committed to a welcoming, vibrant training experience, and to learning how to care more completely for each other and our patients.