Clinician-Educator Track

The Psychiatry Clinician-Educator Track provides interested residents an opportunity to further their educational aptitudes and individual academic goals. In biweekly seminar, we cover foundational adult learning theory, review different teaching styles for different learners and clinical environments, explore the many opportunities for educationally oriented academic projects, and enjoy the comradery of like-minded clinical educators. Outside of seminar, track participants are provided with individual mentorship on their teaching skills and evolving academic project. In this group of peers and faculty dedicated to education we aim to solidify our skills and consolidate our professional identities as psychiatric educators.

Community Psychiatry Track

The Mayo Clinic Psychiatry Residency partnered with our Community Psychiatry Division to develop a Community Psychiatry Track. Building on the psychiatric patient care foundation developed in the early training years in Rochester, residents in the Community Psychiatry Track will join the outpatient community-based practice at Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. This regional practice serves a large rural population struggling with access to behavioral health resources impacted by multifactorial social determinants of health. Residents will master the clinical skills to navigate a complex community system of care while learning leadership and interpersonal skills to be an effective team-based community psychiatrist.

Integrated Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Track

To support residents who have an interest in child and adolescent psychiatry, the Psychiatry Residency offers an integrated track that provides additional time in child psychiatry and pediatrics during the initial two years of adult training. The goal is to offer grounding in developmental psychiatry, enriched by additional clinical experience and a supplemental didactic seminar tailored to the long-term goal of practicing as child and adolescent psychiatrists.

Research and scholarly mentorship are an important component of this track. Knowing that interests can shift, however, this track is structured so that you’ll still have the flexibility to pursue other career goals and remain in the general adult program after the third year if desired.

Distinguishing features of the Integrated CAP track include:

• Experience in pediatrics and pediatric neurology in the intern year
• Mentoring in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry from the beginning of training
• Access to all CAP seminars and didactics for trainees in the integrated track
• Supervised outpatient experience with a small number of carefully selected children and adolescents from the first year of training
• Seamless transition into the CAP program at any point after the PGY-2 year while meeting all general psychiatry training requirements
• Compatibility with the Research Track - research in child and adolescent psychiatry is strongly encouraged and supported with mentoring and adequate elective time
• One attendance trip to the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)

Research Track

The Research Track provides the structure necessary for residents who are interested in clinical research to receive mentorship and early exposure. The goal is to systematically develop a knowledge base and research skills while also meeting the educational goals of general psychiatry training.

Program structure includes:

• Becoming familiar with the research protocols of the department and identifying a research mentor in your area of interest in the PGY-1 year
• Designing a research proposal with the assistance of your mentor and apply to the research track in PGY-2 (10% of time dedicated to research, or about one afternoon per week)
• 20% of your time will be dedicated to research in PGY-3 (about one day per week), and you'll also participate in graduate courses (including Epidemiology 1)
• 50-60% of your time is dedicated to research in PGY-4 (6-8 months) and you'll present the results of your research at a national meeting

Psychiatry Residency Reproductive and Sexual Health Area of Distinction

The Psychiatry Residency Reproductive and Sexual Health Area of Distinction was created in 2025. This is an opportunity for residents to gain specialty knowledge and increased clinical exposure in reproductive psychiatry and graduate with a recognized area of distinction.

Program Structure

PGY-3

• Complete currently required PGY3 Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Clinic (PMAC) rotation.
• At least one therapy patient where a focus of the work is related to reproductive psychiatry or sexual health concerns (i.e. infertility, parenting, pregnancy, postpartum).
• Complete proposal for scholarly project. This could serve as a grand rounds presentation, poster submission, or publication.
• Participate in the Mayo Clinic Perinatal Mental Health Workgroup meetings, approximately quarterly.  

PGY-4

• Continue PMAC rotation throughout PGY4 year.
• At least one therapy patient where a focus of the work is related to reproductive psychiatry or sexual health concerns (i.e. infertility, parenting, pregnancy, postpartum).
• Complete additional elective rotations in reproductive health including: Women’s Health, Men’s Health, and at least one day with lactation team. Additional electives in the Young Child Behavioral clinic, reproductive endocrinology (REI), and an away elective at a perinatal intensive outpatient program could also be considered.
• Complete and present/submit scholarly project.
• Participate in weekly National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry (NCRP) fellows’ didactic series.
• Participate in Mayo Clinic specific resident education on reproductive psychiatry. We provide a yearly didactic to the OBGYN residents.
• Participate in the Mayo Clinic Perinatal Mental Health Taskforce meetings, approximately quarterly.
• Participate in supervision (case management, career supervision that is already in place) with interested faculty.

Qualifications

To qualify for the Reproductive and Sexual Health Area of Distinction, one must be a resident in good standing. The resident should have strong interest in reproductive and sexual health.