First Year
In their first year, residents spend six months on inpatient psychiatry units at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics (UIHC) and at the Veterans Administration Medical Center (VA) in Iowa City.

The remaining six months are comprised of the following rotations.

• Two months of Neurology - one month is on an inpatient neurology unit and the other is in the Neurology Outpatient Clinic.
• Two months on the Medicine-Psychiatry unit - this unit treats medically ill patients with complicating psychiatric disorders.
• Two months of outpatient primary care - residents have the option of spending these months in an internal medicine clinic, family medicine clinic, or pediatrics clinic. The first year provides the resident physician with a foundation in basic medical care and the ability to diagnose common medical and neurological illnesses as well as the psychiatric manifestations of physical illnesses.

Second Year
In their second year, residents continue their training in inpatient psychiatry. In addition to inpatient psychiatry units at UIHC and at the VA that they were introduced to in their first year, residents will also complete the following rotations.

• Geriatric Psychiatry Unit - while on this unit, residents will be responsible for the care of older psychiatric patients, many of whom have disorders that are primarily seen later in life, such as the dementias.
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit - residents will have the opportunity to spend two months learning about the intricacies of treating patients under 18 years old.
• Consult-Liaison - residents will spend two months on this service, learning about and treating the wide variety of psychiatric disturbances that occur among the medically ill, while consulting and collaborating with their non-psychiatric peers.
• Electroconvulsive Therapy - residents will spend one month on this service, learning about this treatment modality and administering the treatment.
• Chemical Dependency Service - residents spend one month working both in the outpatient clinic and as an inpatient consultant for patients with substance abuse and dependency issues.
• Emergency Psychiatry - residents will spend one month as the "night float" covering the emergency room, the inpatient psychiatry units at UIHC, overnight consults, and patient telephone calls over night.
• Eating Disorders Unit - residents will spend one month working with patients who have been diagnosed with eating disorders and require inpatient treatment. In addition to pharmacotherapy, residents are involved with the intensive psychotherapy that these patients receive.