Department news | October 31, 2018
Psychiatry is becoming a more competitive specialty in the residency Match nationally, a trend that has spanned the last six years with dramatic increases over the last three. According to Psychiatric News, a total of 982 U.S. senior medical school students matched with a psychiatry residency in this year’s National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), up from 923 […]
Department news | September 30, 2018
Congratulations to acting assistant professors Thomas Soeprono, MD, and Ramanpreet Toor, MD, for being accepted into the UW Teaching Scholars Program (TSP) for academic year 2018-19. The TSP is a one-year professional development program for educators in the health professions who have a passion for teaching and a desire to become academic leaders. The program provides an […]
Department news | September 30, 2018
Our department was incredibly well represented at the Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP) meeting in Milwaukee, WI last month with nearly 20 faculty members and trainees presenting workshops and a number of Huskies winning awards. The AAP Meeting is for psychiatrists who are interested in learning about academic development, teaching psychiatry, and research on psychiatry […]
Department news | June 30, 2018
Elizabeth McCauley, PhD, ABPP, who has been serving as the Training Director of the University of Washington’s Psychology Internship Program since 2013, will be officially stepping down on June 30, 2018. We are pleased to announce that Ty Lostutter, PhD, Assistant Professor, will be the incoming Training Director and Charles Bombardier, PhD, ABPP, Professor from the Department […]
Department news | May 31, 2018
Members of our paid and clinical faculty from Seattle and the WWAMI region gathered for a day-long education conference which included presentations on teaching methods, giving feedback, bias in medical education, digital teaching resources, evidence-based psychotherapy supervision, and evaluating medical students and psychiatry and psychology residents. The program included opportunities to meet other Psychiatry teaching […]
Department news | April 30, 2018
American Psychiatric Association (APA) and American Psychiatric Association Foundation (APAF) Fellowships provide psychiatry residents the experiential learning, training and professional development they need to be leaders in the field of psychiatry. The fellowship programs offer opportunities to work with Congress on health policy, conduct research, expand access to care to minority and underserved populations, and […]
Department news | April 30, 2018
We are excited to announce that our department and the Billings Clinic in Billings, Montana are partnering to develop a new Psychiatry Residency Montana Track. This residency track will be similar to our existing Idaho Track, with residents completing the first two years of training in Seattle and the last two years in Montana. The goals […]
Department news | March 31, 2018
The mission of the Psychology Internship Program’s Diversity Advancement Committee (DAC) is to promote the cultural diversity training during the Psychology Resident year. The DAC sponsors the annual Shigetomi Memorial Lecture in honor of Carol Shigetomi, a former Psychology Resident from the class of 1982-1983. Carol tragically died during a hiking accident in Oregon shortly after […]
Department news | March 31, 2018
The first in-person meeting for our new Community Based Integrated Care Fellowship was held earlier this month at Talaris Conference Center. Fourteen fellows from nine counties in Washington are participating in this year-long fellowship modeled after an executive MBA program. The fellowship focuses on increasing access to effective mental health care by teaching psychiatric providers to leverage […]
Department news | February 28, 2018
Psych Essentials is a medical education podcast developed and hosted by UW Psychiatry PGY3 residents Lindsay Lebin, MD, and James Koved, MD. The podcast is aimed at medical students and allied health professionals (nursing, occupational therapy, social work trainees) on their psychiatry rotations. Based on free and open access medical education (FOAM) principles, Psych Essentials covers core […]
