Psychiatry Residency & Fellowships | Residency
Residency Rural Track
Residency
Welcome to the Pine Rest Rural Track Residency!
We are proud to train psychiatrists who will expand services to Michigan’s underserved communities through comprehensive and innovative rural psychiatry training.
In partnership with Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Pine Rest is proud to participate in the MIDOCs Program. This state-funded program was set up to expand residency positions in select specialties and to train physicians who want to spend their careers working with underserved populations in Michigan. MIDOCS funds programs to train physicians, and offers subsequent eligible student loan repayment in the amount of $75,000.00 after completion of residency, provided that the physician practices in a rural or urban underserved area in Michigan for two years, post-residency. More information about the MIDOCS program, including eligibility, service obligation, qualifying loans, and FAQs, can be found on the MIDOCS website.
The rural location for the Pine Rest Rural Track Residency is Traverse City, Michigan. Housed approximately 2 hours north of Grand Rapids, Traverse City is known as the “Cherry Capital of the World,” and is known for natural attractions such as beaches, vineyards, wineries, and proximity to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The city population is approximately 15,000. Traverse City is identified as one of America’s Top Five Foodie Towns (“Bon Appetit,”) and hosts annual film festivals, ironman races, multiple lighthouses, an opera house, and several museums. More information about Traverse City can be found here: Traverse City Hotels, Events, Restaurants & Things to Do
Through a partnership with Munson Healthcare in Traverse City, Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services offers two accredited positions for the rural track residency annually. Residents in this program will complete their first two years of residency in Grand Rapids, with the exception of one rotation during PGY1 and PGY2 that will be in Traverse City. In PGY1, residents will complete a four-week rotation in the Family Practice Clinic at Munson Healthcare in Traverse City, and in PGY2, will complete a four-week rotation in the Adult Inpatient Psychiatry unit at Munson Healthcare in Traverse City. For each of these rotations, residents are allocated up to $2,000 as a housing reimbursement allowance. At the end of PGY2, residents are allotted additional time off, and will move to Traverse City for the subsequent two years of their general adult residency training. Residents are offered reimbursement of up to $1,500 for moving expenses. Residents will complete a full year of outpatient clinic work in PGY3, with time spent at Pine Rest’ Traverse City Clinic, at Munson Outpatient Behavioral Health, and at Northern Lakes Community Mental Health in Traverse City and Cadillac. PGY4 will be composed of rotations at Munson Healthcare’s Psychiatry Consult/Liaison Service, Neurology Service, and Adult Inpatient Psychiatry Service as well as six elective rotations.
Interested participants should review and understand the conditions of the Addendum to Residency Agreement.
References: michigandocs.org; Munson Healthcare; Rural Psychiatry Track | Michigan State University (msu.edu); MIDOCs Program (msu.edu)
RURAL TRACK Residency Program Overview
PGY1
Primary Care | 16 weeks
The primary care rotation experience includes inpatient medicine and pediatrics rotations at Pine Rest Grand Rapids, as well as a rotation at the Family Medicine Clinic at Munson Healthcare in Traverse City.
Neurology | 4 weeks
A neurology inpatient rotation at a local acute care hospital and an outpatient neurology experience are included. Residents will learn to perform consultations and follow up care under the supervision of neurologists.
Adult Inpatient Psychiatry| 24 weeks
This rotation provides residents the opportunity to learn to evaluate and treat patients with diverse diagnoses including major mental illness, co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, and those who require further diagnostic evaluation. Residents will complete this experience on various adult units.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 4 weeks
Residents will rotate in our adolescent partial hospitalization program where they will get to support adolescents with varying diagnoses in an intensive day treatment program. This setting allows residents to work alongside the treatment team, adolescents, and their caregivers to apply treatment skills when teens transition home in the evenings.
Older Adult Psychiatry | 4 weeks
Residents will assess and treat patients on a 26-bed inpatient older adult unit. This unit includes a 10-bed close observation area.
Elective | 4 weeks
Residents can select from a variety of rotations related to their specific area of interest to get additional exposure early on in their training. Elective opportunities include pain medicine, perinatal mood disorders, child and adolescent psychiatry, outpatient pediatrics, and integrative medicine.
PGY2
Adult Inpatient Psychiatry | 4 weeks
This rotation provides residents the opportunity to learn to evaluate and treat patients with diverse diagnoses including major mental illness, co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, and those who require further diagnostic evaluation. Residents will complete this experience on the Adult Inpatient Psychiatry Unit at Munson Healthcare in Traverse City.
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | 4 weeks
Pine Rest’s 36-bed inpatient child and adolescent unit treats patients ages 3 through 17. This rotation allows for opportunities to work alongside the child and adolescent fellows.
Consult-Liaison Psychiatry | 8 weeks
Residents will learn how to provide consultation and liaison services at acute care hospitals in the community. Consulting with the referring physician and conducting evaluations of patients in acute care settings will occur under the supervision of faculty psychiatrists.
Addiction Psychiatry | 8 weeks
The addiction rotation provides education in a wide variety of settings. This includes assessment and care of patients in an outpatient addiction clinic and detoxification services. Residents will also have exposure to a 12-bed short-term residential unit for those who no longer need detoxification services but could benefit from a continued stay in a residential setting, for example.
Psychological Consultation | 4 weeks
During this rotation, residents are exposed to a variety of psychological assessments and testing including ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, learning disabilities, neuropsychological testing, and forensic evaluations. They learn what tests to order and when as well as gain an understanding of how they are administered and interpreted.
Older Adult Psychiatry | 4 weeks
Residents will assess and treat patients on a 26-bed inpatient geriatric unit. This unit includes a 10-bed close observation unit.
Emergency Psychiatry | 4 weeks
This important rotation teaches residents to quicky form a therapeutic alliance with patients and families in crisis. This is followed by assessing immediate safety factors for the patient, the resident, and the staff and take appropriate steps to conduct a medical and psychiatric evaluation. Residents learn emergency psychopharmacology and psychotherapeutic techniques, along with appropriate level of treatment for patients before the patient leaves the evaluation.
Perinatal Mood Disorders | 4 weeks
Residents have the unique opportunity to work at our Mother Baby Partial Hospitalization Program, which is a day treatment program dedicated to pregnant and postpartum women. Residents will learn how to assess and treat primarily mood and anxiety disorders in this special population.
ECT/TMS | 4 weeks
Residents will have the opportunity to complete consults for and neuromodulation treatments for patients in both the ECT and TMS clinics at Pine Rest.
Correctional Psychiatry | 4 weeks
Night Float | 4 weeks
During this rotation, residents work closely with social workers and nurses to review relevant history and laboratory and diagnostic studies to determine appropriateness for admission to the hospital, both from a psychiatric and medical standpoint. Residents gain exposure to and increased familiarity with risk assessment and safety planning as well as physical restraints and seclusions as they manage urgent safety concerns on the units. Residents work Sunday night through Friday morning during the 4-week rotation.
PGY3
Outpatient Psychiatry/Community Psychiatry | 52 weeks
The outpatient clinic year provides supervised experience in the assessment, pharmacotherapy, and psychotherapy of adults and children in an outpatient setting. Supervision is provided by faculty psychiatrists who have experience in a variety of modalities in addition to a doctoral level psychologist dedicated to psychotherapy training. This is completed at the Pine Rest Traverse City Clinic, at Munson Healthcare Outpatient Behavioral Health, and at Northern Lakes Community Mental Health
The outpatient experience begins with a half-day per week for PGY2s leading up to the year-long rotation (start in PGY3 year) and followed up with a half-day per week through the remainder of residency.
PGY4
Consult/Liaison Psychiatry | 12 weeks
Residents will learn how to provide consultation and liaison services at Munson Healthcare. Consulting with the referring physician and conducting evaluations of patients in acute care settings will occur under the supervision of faculty psychiatrists.
Neurology | 4 weeks
A neurology inpatient rotation at a Munson Healthcare. Residents will learn to perform consultations and follow up care under the supervision of neurologists.
Adult Inpatient Psychiatry | 12 weeks
This rotation provides residents the opportunity to learn to evaluate and treat patients with diverse diagnoses including major mental illness, co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, and those who require further diagnostic evaluation. Residents will complete this experience on the Adult Inpatient Psychiatry Unit at Munson Healthcare in Traverse City.
Elective | 24 weeks
Residents can choose from a variety of rotations at Pine Rest or within the Traverse City community to further their education in a particular area of interest. Examples of elective opportunities include consult/liaison psychiatry, school consults, adult/child/older adult inpatient psychiatry, and movement disorders.
Residents participate in weekly didactics covering various topics throughout the course of the training program. Didactics are in-person in years PGY1 and PGY2, and completed remotely in PGY3 and PGY4.
PGY1
Addiction Psychiatry
Anxiety Disorders
Forensic Psychiatry
Internal Medicine
Interviewing Techniques, Mental Status Exam, and Psychiatric Formulation
Introductory Psychopharmacology
Mood Disorders and Suicidality
Clinical Neurology, Neuroanatomy, Neuroscience
Pediatrics
Physician Development and Resilience
Professionalism and Ethics
Psychodynamic Principles
Psychological Assessment
Psychotic Disorders
Transcultural Psychiatry, including Religion, Spirituality, and Worldview
Research Methods and Statistics
Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
PGY2
Basic Principles of Psychotherapy, including acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, family and marital therapy, group therapy, interpersonal therapy, motivational interviewing, psychodynamic therapy, supportive therapy
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Developmental Models
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Forensic Psychiatry
Geriatric Psychiatry
History of Psychiatry
Neuromodulation (ECT/TMS)
Neuroscience, including Brain Imaging
Women’s Health
PGY3
Advanced Psychiatric Diagnosis
Advanced Principles of Psychotherapy
Advanced Psychopharmacology
Adverse Drug Reactions
Administrative Psychiatry
Career and Professional Development
Clinical Neurology, Neuroscience
Reviewing and Conducting Research
Suboxone Training and Certification
PGY4
Administrative Psychiatry
Career and Professional Development
Collaborative Care
Complementary and Alternative Medications
Forensic Psychiatry
LGBTQ+
Clinical Neurology, Neuroscience
Physicians as Leaders
Transition to Practice
All PGYs
Case Conference
Grand Rounds
Journal Club
Morbidity and Mortality
PRITE Review
A stipend is provided at each PG level in the following amount:
PGY1: $59,843
PGY2: $61,709
PGY3: $63,657
PGY4: $65,892
Benefits are as follows:
Eighteen (18) PTO days are allowed for residents at each level. An additional five (5) days of PTO are provided to each resident either during the week of Christmas or the week of New Years, as assigned by the program.
Twenty (20) wellness hours are provided for all residents each academic year.
Conference Time is allowed for PGY2 residents and above, for one conference per year, up to one week or five (5) CME days.
Conference/Academic/Book Allowance is provided to residents up to $2,000 per year.
In PGY1 and PGY2, residents are provided up to $2,000 is housing expense reimbursement for their rotation in Traverse City.
Between PGY2 and PGY3, residents are provided up to $1,500 in moving expense reimbursement for their move to Traverse City.
Between PGY2 and PGY3, residents are provided an additional 3 days immediately prior to the start of Block 1 of PGY3 years to provide time to move in. This can be combined with PTO within PTO policy guidelines.
Employee Assistance Program at Pine Rest offers confidential individual or family counseling, grief and substance abuse support, financial advising, and other services.
Free parking is provided on Pine Rest grounds.
Food service is available in the cafeteria and in the Resident Lounge. In PGY3 and PGY4, residents are provided a meal card loaded with $2,000 to be used at the Munson Cafeteria.
Pine Rest provides a pager and an iPad to residents.
Pine Rest provides two lab coats at the beginning of the program to residents.
Pine Rest provides Professional Liability Insurance with tail coverage.
Pine Rest provides athletic club membership discounts at the YMCA and MVP sports clubs.
See additional health, dental, vision, retirement, life insurance, and other benefits here.
This is only intended to be a general overview of the current benefits programs at Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services/Michigan State University Psychiatry Residency, and it is subject to change.
Updated August 2022.
