Our training program encourages residents to hone their clinical skills and find their interests in psychiatry.
Our residency training program offers several unique features. In your first year, you’ll have outpatient experiences (psychiatry continuity clinic, ambulatory medicine, and neurology). You’ll start psychotherapy training in the first year too with Motivational Interviewing. Another unique feature is the opportunity for individualized curriculum (including child combined training, rural training, research track, integrative psychiatry, elective opportunities in the 2nd year, and identification of mentors in the 1st year). You’ll also see diverse patient populations, trainees, faculty, and staff, as well as many different training sites. And, you’ll learn about, and work in, multiple systems of care (University, VAMC, community, and rural).
University Psychiatric Center
Located on the UNM Health Sciences Campus, the University Psychiatric Center (UPC) is the primary teaching site for our residents in general psychiatry. The programs are community based and provide services for about one third of the people in Bernalillo County seeking psychiatric care. The patient population is culturally and socially diverse.
Children’s Psychiatric Center
UNM Children's Psychiatric Center (CPC)is New Mexico's only such facility affiliated with an academic medical center. It provides intensive behavioral health care for children and adolescents through age 17. It is the only provider in the state with treatment for children with serious emotional disturbances regardless of a family's ability to pay.
Addiction and Substance Abuse Program
UNM Health System’s Addiction and Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) specializes in providing diverse proven substance abuse and mental health treatment, including specialized services for women. ASAP provides services to adults and adolescents with a primary substance abuse diagnosis and to individuals who have a substance abuse disorder along with other mental health issues.
Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center
The Albuquerque campus of the New Mexico VA Health Care System is the site for many teaching experiences for our PGY-1 residents in inpatient psychiatry, outpatient clinics, emergency psychiatry, and psychiatry-primary care experiences. In addition, psychotherapy, and other elective experiences are commonly supervised by our VA faculty.
UNM Health’s Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team, Albuquerque
The ACT team provides treatment, rehabilitation and support services for people living with severe mental illness. We help our clients to live successfully, and learn behaviors to alleviate acute illness episodes. Mobile Unit: Our multidisciplinary mental health team fans out through the city to help people who frequent emergency departments, jails and other long-term health care situations. The ACT team delivers psychiatric counseling and other community services to patients in their homes. The team includes case managers, peer specialists, nurses, therapists and prescribing providers
Crisis Intervention Coast/APD/Echo Telehealth
The Crisis Intervention Team's goal is to provide an effective response to situations involving people who might be mentally ill or in crisis. The Crisis Intervention Team works with people in the Albuquerque Community who exhibit chronic behavior patterns that may pose risks to themselves or others. One of the team's primary goals is to ensure that situations involving people in crisis are defused so that force may be avoided and proper medical attention or referral to an appropriate follow-up agency is provided. The team also works closely with the mental health care provider network to help identify deficiencies in our health care programs.
Truman Health Services
The Truman Clinic provides the highest quality of HIV care with respect for human dignity and the right to privacy. Through effective medical care, behavioral health services, complementary therapies, and community support, we seek to enhance the physical and personal well-being of people living with HIV in Albuquerque and throughout New Mexico. Our mission is to enhance the physical and personal well-being of people living with HIV/AIDS and raise awareness to the community through education.
New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute (NMBHI), Las Vegas, NM
The New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute (NMBHI) is the only state owned and operated psychiatric hospital in New Mexico. NMBHI is made up of five clinical divisions serving a wide range of public needs. Each division is separately licensed and has its own unique admission criteria. We provide adult psychiatric services on six units, serving approximately 1000 admissions per year. Our adolescent program is dedicated to treating adolescent males who have a history of sexually harmful behaviors and have been diagnosed with a co-occurring mental illness. Our forensic division treatment to competency for adult patients who have been charged with committing a felony. Our long term care division is a major regional licensed long-term nursing care provider for elderly and disabled residents.
IHS/Zuni
The Zuni Comprehensive Community Health Center offers/provides a wide variety of inpatient, outpatient and community health services. General Medical Services: Mental Health Preventative Health Services: Integrated Medicine & Acupuncture Community Services.
Clinica de Familia, Inc. (LCDF)
LCDF Is a private, not-for-profit federally qualified health center (FQHC) that was established in Doña Ana County, New Mexico in 1978. LCDF provides quality health care for the entire family through a system of medical clinics, dental clinics, school based clinics, behavioral health services, mental health services, Early Head Start programs, Healthy Start programs and a Promotora program. LCDF health and social services programs are funded by grants, contracts, and fee-for-service. Assertive Community Treatment (ACT): ACT is a program designed to deliver a full range of services to individuals who have been diagnosed with severe disabling mental illnesses.
Region IX Education Cooperative School Based Health Center of Ruidoso
Provides direct services to children and families and support services to member districts in south-central New Mexico since 1984. The service area includes Capitan, Carrizozo, Cloudcroft, Corona, Ruidoso, Hondo, and Tularosa school districts and communities. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: Providing direct ancillary services to students ages 3 to 21 years of age, technical assistance and professional development to teachers, administrators and support personnel, and DVR Transition services to students in Otero and Lincoln Counties. SCHOOL BASED HEALTH SERVICES: Bringing clinical, physical, and behavioral healthcare services to Region 9 schools for students of all ages, with a goal of keeping students healthy and in class.
Residents as Educators Training
All residents get training in how to teach in PGY-1 & PGY-2
Opportunity for more in-depth training through RAE program
Medical Student Teaching
PGY-1 & 2 residents teach medical students on psychiatry clerkship
Tandem Call Supervision
PGY-3 residents supervise PGY-1 residents on call
Chief Resident
Teach several clerkship student core lectures
Teach junior residents on clinical services
Coordinate didactic curriculum for junior residents
Jr. Attending opportunities
Supervise junior residents and medical students on rotationsPGY-1: When on inpatient psychiatry rotations, call averages 2-4 weekend days/nights per month at the VA Inpatient Psychiatry Unit and Emergency room.
PGY-2: For PGY2s, call is typically 1 shifts/month and the Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES) blocks include a total of + 7 nights/block.
PGY-3: Call consists of supervising the PGY-1 residents at the VA (see above) approximately 1 weekend call every 3 months.
PGY-4: No call requirement.University Psychiatric Center
Located on the UNM Health Sciences Campus, the University Psychiatric Center (UPC) is the primary teaching site for our residents in general psychiatry. The programs are community based and provide services for about one third of the people in Bernalillo County seeking psychiatric care. The patient population is culturally and socially diverse.
Children’s Psychiatric Center
UNM Children's Psychiatric Center (CPC)is New Mexico's only such facility affiliated with an academic medical center. It provides intensive behavioral health care for children and adolescents through age 17. It is the only provider in the state with treatment for children with serious emotional disturbances regardless of a family's ability to pay.
Addiction and Substance Abuse Program
UNM Health System’s Addiction and Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) specializes in providing diverse proven substance abuse and mental health treatment, including specialized services for women. ASAP provides services to adults and adolescents with a primary substance abuse diagnosis and to individuals who have a substance abuse disorder along with other mental health issues.
Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center
The Albuquerque campus of the New Mexico VA Health Care System is the site for many teaching experiences for our PGY-1 residents in inpatient psychiatry, outpatient clinics, emergency psychiatry, and psychiatry-primary care experiences. In addition, psychotherapy, and other elective experiences are commonly supervised by our VA faculty.
UNM Health’s Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team, Albuquerque
The ACT team provides treatment, rehabilitation and support services for people living with severe mental illness. We help our clients to live successfully, and learn behaviors to alleviate acute illness episodes. Mobile Unit: Our multidisciplinary mental health team fans out through the city to help people who frequent emergency departments, jails and other long-term health care situations. The ACT team delivers psychiatric counseling and other community services to patients in their homes. The team includes case managers, peer specialists, nurses, therapists and prescribing providers
Crisis Intervention Coast/APD/Echo Telehealth
The Crisis Intervention Team's goal is to provide an effective response to situations involving people who might be mentally ill or in crisis. The Crisis Intervention Team works with people in the Albuquerque Community who exhibit chronic behavior patterns that may pose risks to themselves or others. One of the team's primary goals is to ensure that situations involving people in crisis are defused so that force may be avoided and proper medical attention or referral to an appropriate follow-up agency is provided. The team also works closely with the mental health care provider network to help identify deficiencies in our health care programs.
Truman Health Services
The Truman Clinic provides the highest quality of HIV care with respect for human dignity and the right to privacy. Through effective medical care, behavioral health services, complementary therapies, and community support, we seek to enhance the physical and personal well-being of people living with HIV in Albuquerque and throughout New Mexico. Our mission is to enhance the physical and personal well-being of people living with HIV/AIDS and raise awareness to the community through education.
New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute (NMBHI), Las Vegas, NM
The New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute (NMBHI) is the only state owned and operated psychiatric hospital in New Mexico. NMBHI is made up of five clinical divisions serving a wide range of public needs. Each division is separately licensed and has its own unique admission criteria. We provide adult psychiatric services on six units, serving approximately 1000 admissions per year. Our adolescent program is dedicated to treating adolescent males who have a history of sexually harmful behaviors and have been diagnosed with a co-occurring mental illness. Our forensic division treatment to competency for adult patients who have been charged with committing a felony. Our long term care division is a major regional licensed long-term nursing care provider for elderly and disabled residents.
IHS/Zuni
The Zuni Comprehensive Community Health Center offers/provides a wide variety of inpatient, outpatient and community health services. General Medical Services: Mental Health Preventative Health Services: Integrated Medicine & Acupuncture Community Services.
Clinica de Familia, Inc. (LCDF)
LCDF Is a private, not-for-profit federally qualified health center (FQHC) that was established in Doña Ana County, New Mexico in 1978. LCDF provides quality health care for the entire family through a system of medical clinics, dental clinics, school based clinics, behavioral health services, mental health services, Early Head Start programs, Healthy Start programs and a Promotora program. LCDF health and social services programs are funded by grants, contracts, and fee-for-service. Assertive Community Treatment (ACT): ACT is a program designed to deliver a full range of services to individuals who have been diagnosed with severe disabling mental illnesses.
Region IX Education Cooperative School Based Health Center of Ruidoso
Provides direct services to children and families and support services to member districts in south-central New Mexico since 1984. The service area includes Capitan, Carrizozo, Cloudcroft, Corona, Ruidoso, Hondo, and Tularosa school districts and communities. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: Providing direct ancillary services to students ages 3 to 21 years of age, technical assistance and professional development to teachers, administrators and support personnel, and DVR Transition services to students in Otero and Lincoln Counties. SCHOOL BASED HEALTH SERVICES: Bringing clinical, physical, and behavioral healthcare services to Region 9 schools for students of all ages, with a goal of keeping students healthy and in class.
Residents as Educators Training
All residents get training in how to teach in PGY-1 & PGY-2
Opportunity for more in-depth training through RAE program
Medical Student Teaching
PGY-1 & 2 residents teach medical students on psychiatry clerkship
Tandem Call Supervision
PGY-3 residents supervise PGY-1 residents on call
Chief Resident
Teach several clerkship student core lectures
Teach junior residents on clinical services
Coordinate didactic curriculum for junior residents
Jr. Attending opportunities
Supervise junior residents and medical students on rotationsPGY-1: When on inpatient psychiatry rotations, call averages 2-4 weekend days/nights per month at the VA Inpatient Psychiatry Unit and Emergency room.
PGY-2: For PGY2s, call is typically 1 shifts/month and the Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES) blocks include a total of + 7 nights/block.
PGY-3: Call consists of supervising the PGY-1 residents at the VA (see above) approximately 1 weekend call every 3 months.
PGY-4: No call requirement.
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Medical Education Program Manager
Judith River-Kamps
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
2400 Tucker Avenue N.E
1 University of New Mexico
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Albuquerque, NM 87131
