Family Medicine & Psychiatry  - Training Sites

The Department of Psychiatry Residency program offices are located in the newly built Stetson office building adjacent to the main University of Cincinnati Medical Center. The Department of Family Medicine offices are located at The Christ Hospital in the Medical Arts Building. Financial support for this combined residency comes from University of Cincinnati Hospital, The Christ Hospital, the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry.

UC Health University Hospital

University Hospital is the principal training site for inpatient psychiatry, emergency psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, neurology, and emergency medicine. This hospital serves both as the primary provider of indigent care and tertiary-level care. Three psychiatric units are currently operational: one faculty run service, and two units run by resident teaching services which are used for most inpatient rotations.

 During inpatient months residents are also paired with another attending physician who provides off-ward supervision in order to complement the strengths of the ward attending. The Psychiatric Emergency Service of University Hospital is located immediately adjacent to the Emergency Department of the hospital. It is generally regarded as one of the busiest psychiatric emergency rooms in the country.  All residents do rotations in emergency psychiatry during the first two years, as well as covering shifts during the outpatient year. 

Central Clinic/Outpatient Psychiatry

Central Clinic is the principal training site for outpatient psychiatry, which for the combined FMP residents comprises the entirety of the fourth year. Central Clinic has a long and outstanding tradition as one of the oldest psychiatric clinics in the country.

The Adult Treatment Center comprises the majority of cases seen by the resident-individual therapy cases (long-term and brief), couples, and some group therapy cases. The residency has an outstanding record in terms of its graduates continuing to do work in public sector psychiatry after graduation.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is in the top 10 of children's hospitals in the country and is the training site for child and adolescent psychiatry. In addition, it is the principal training site for child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship training. Cincinnati Children's is a world-renowned pediatrics hospital with several psychiatric services, including inpatient latency and adolescent units, consultation and emergency services.

Additionally, CHMC offers one of the premier pediatrics residencies in the country. FMP residents complete their pediatrics training at this facility, where exposure to pathology and teaching are second to none. Rotations include inpatient pediatrics, subspecialty clinics, and pediatric emergency room (in addition to the psychiatric experiences). 

Cincinnati Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center

The Cincinnati Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center is the principal training site for addiction psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry and a training site for inpatient psychiatry and neurology. The addiction psychiatry rotation includes inpatient detoxification, outpatient dual diagnosis assessment, and drug rehabilitation.

The inpatient psychiatry and gero-psychiatry rotations also afford some exposure to patients on research protocols. The addiction and gero-psychiatry rotations are strengthened by the presence of fellows in these subspecialties who work alongside the general psychiatry residents.  

Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute

The Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute (CPI) is a non-profit educational institution that offers post-graduate training to mental health professionals. The Institute is a major teaching resource for the residency, providing many outpatient supervisors, conference supervisors, and lecturers. All residents interested in psychoanalysis are able to attend conferences and arrange additional training through elective experiences.  

The Christ Hospital 

The Christ Hospital is the primary training hospital for the family medicine residency. It offers the luxury and feel of a smaller community hospital but the academic richness of practicing in a large city a few blocks from the University of Cincinnati Medical Campus.

FMP residents complete their inpatient medicine, OB, surgery, and ICU at this hospital in addition to numerous outpatient electives. The hospital provides access to every medical specialty and is conveniently located in the heart of the city.

UC Health Primary Care at Forest Park

The Forest Park Family Medicine clinic serves as the continuity site for residents during their five years. For a half-day or full-day every week beginning their first month of intern year, residents see and manage patients in an outpatient family medicine setting that they can then follow throughout the rest of their residency.

An onsite psychiatrist (the FMP Program Director, Dr. Wulsin) is available to consult for any psychiatric needs, and residents have the opportunity to manage their patient's medical and psychiatric illnesses in an outpatient continuity setting.