The Department offers a 12-month. ACGME-accredited program in geriatric psychiatry. The goal of this program is to produce specialists in the delivery of psychiatric medical care to older adults suffering from psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disorders.

The residency offers clinical rotations in the following settings:

• Inpatient geropsychiatry specialty unit
• Outpatient geriatric psychiatry specialty clinic
  • Pharmacological management
  • Individual and family pschotherapy
• Long-term care setting at Leiberman Geriatric Center
• Consultation in the community via home visits through the Council for Jewish Elderly
• Northwestern's Alzheimer's Disease Center
• Geriatric medicine specialty clinic
• Electives

Geriatric psychiatry residents are given the opportunity to provide both primary and consultative care in the inpatient and outpatient settings. The program offers training in the biological and psychosocial aspects of both normal aging and of the pathology of primary psychiatric disturbances beginning in or continuing into older age, as well as training in the psychiatric impact of acute and chronic physical illnesses.

For more information about the geriatric residency program contact:

Mia Collins
mccollin@nmh.org
(312) 926-8058