Description:
 

For 14 years the Rural Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Training Program has provided a rural rotation/track for Adult Psychiatry Residents and Child Psychiatry Fellows.  The unique approach and focus has been nationally recognized by the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) as a model program, and the Annapolis Coalition as a best-practice.

• Rural track residents spend one to two days/week for 6 months to a year in designated sites throughout New Mexico
• Rotations are possible in Primary Care Sites as well as Community Mental Health Centers
• Training sites are possible in numerous predominantly Native American and/or Hispanic communities across New Mexico
• Possible rotations include those focused on: direct care, services research, mental health policy, Native American behavioral health programs, and program evaluation,
• Rotations are currently funded through New Mexico Department Human Services, Behavioral Health Services Division and the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department.

The Rural Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Training Program serves as a one-of-a-kind training and as a potential recruitment and retention tool for promoting interest and involvement for psychiatrists in rural New Mexico.

 

Goals:

• Continued and increased opportunity for rural residency rotations in adult, child, geriatric and addictions fellowship programs; and
• Development and integration of a rural interdisciplinary behavioral health training rotation(s) in other fields: psychology, social work, nursing, and physicians assistants.

 

Activities:

On-going clinical and administrative supervision for current, future (*) rural rotations and fellowship rotations

• Health Care for the Homeless in Albuquerque

• La Familia Clinic in Santa Fe

• Na’Nizhoozhi Center Inc (NCI) in Gallup & Shiprock

• Presbyterian Medical Services & Totah Behavioral Health in Farmington

• Rural research rotation that serves several NM communities

• *Hildalgo Medial Services & Hildalgo Regional Medical Center in Silver City

• *Health Centers of Northern New Mexico in Espanola

• *Health Care for the Homeless in Albuquerque

• *Telehealth-based rotation to potentially serve several NM communities

• *Additional rotations in central and NW New Mexico

• 5^th year behavioral health research and MPH certificate

• Geriatric Fellow  in northern NM working with Native American populations

• Geriatric Fellow (communities to be determined)

• Geriatric Fellow (July 2007 – Jun 2008)

• Addiction Fellow in at NCI in Gallup

• Child Fellow Rural Rotation:
   

• Indian Health Service Telepsychiatry & To’hajiilee, Acoma/Laguna

• La Clinica del Pueblo de Rio Arriba in Tierra Amarilla

• Ruidoso SBHC in Ruidoso

• Border Area Mental Health Services in Silver City
   

Partnerships:

• Provider and Community primary and behavioral health care agencies listed under Activities:
• New Mexico Human Services Department – Behavioral Health Services Division
• Rural and Community Psychiatry Network of New Mexico
• New Mexico Health Resources