Columbia St. Mary's

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MCW Family Medicine/Psychiatry Residency Program
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

1121 E. North Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53212

Administrative: #414-267-6502
Administrative Hours of Operation: Monday through Friday 8:00 to 4:30 p.m. 

INTRODUCTION

The Medical College of Wisconsin's Family Medicine/Psychiatry Residency Program is an integrated five-year residency leading to board eligibility in both specialities. The program enjoys strong support from the college departments of Family and Community Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of the Family Medicine/Psychiatry Residency Program is to train physicians with broad competencies and skills in the specialities of family medicine and psychiatry.

TRAINING

Continuity of care and developing in-depth knowledge of patients is the cornerstone of the program. The integration of skills from both specialties is stressed throughout the curriculum.

Family Medicine Continuity Care: During the first three years, residents spend one-half day per week at the Columbia-St. Mary's Family Health Center. This increases to two to three half-days in the fourth and fifth years.

Psychiatric Continuity Care: Psychotherapy training is begun in the third year of the program, with a primary focus of outpatient psychiatry and psychotherapy. Psychotherapy continuity clinic continues one-half day per week in the fourth and fifth years.

TRAINING FACILITIES

Family medicine training occurs at the Columbia St. Mary’s Family Medicine Residency Program. Serving over 10,000 patients annually, it is a community hospital-based program with selected rotations at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. Columbia-St. Mary’s serves a diverse urban patient population on Milwaukee’s east side, providing a full array of health and socio-economic issues. It is a family- practice-friendly environment with a stable core of family physicians and specialists dedicated to training family practice residents. The program is both allopathic and osteopathic certified, with AOA approval through Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.

The psychiatry training is based at the Medical College of Wisconsin, in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine. The department has many educational resources, with particular strengths in psychotherapy training and psychopharmacology. Clinical sites provide a broad range of patient care experiences and include the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center, and the Columbia Psychotherapy Center/Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Institute.

CAREER OPTIONS

Physicians with this unique training will be in a strategic position to function in a number of capacities in family medicine, psychiatry, or in combined roles. Possible career options include:

• functioning as both a primary care physician and psychiatric consultant in group practice settings;
• consultation-liason psychiatry; treating the chronically mentally ill;
• working in rural or underserved areas, geriatrics, addiction medicine, and academic positions.

PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Program director Randy Ward, MD, is residency trained in family medicine through MacNeal Hospital and psychiatry through Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. Board-certified in both specialties, he has appointments and active teaching roles in both departments. He practices the full spectrum of family medicine including obstetrics, and has extensive experience in psychiatric practice in medical settings. Special interests include psychiatric disorders in primary care and in pregnancy, personality and somatization disorders and delirium and dementia.

CURRICULUM

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Last updated: 08/18/2005