Psychiatry Residency Program

Mission Statement

The HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital Psychiatry Residency program's mission is to develop the next generation of physicians and physician leaders.

As a part of HCA Healthcare, we are driven by a single mission: Above all else, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life.

This program is designed to offer residents a rewarding, educational environment where residents are provided individualized learning opportunities by faculty and staff who support and sustain one another throughout quality care delivery. Our faculty are committed to ensuring the resident's clinical experience and educational needs are fulfilled while expanding residents’ perspectives to be inclusive of cultures, values and ideals.

Program Overview

The HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital Psychiatry Program is a four-year program designed to provide remarkably diverse clinical exposure, including patients from rural, small town, suburban and urban core city environments.

HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital also serves veterans and the military environment due to its proximity to the Naval Air Station Jacksonville (NAS JAX) airbase in Jacksonville, Florida. We also serve regional patients from Georgia and the Carolinas.

The range of psychiatric disorders our residents see is equally diverse: prodromal and first-episode psychoses, chronic/acute schizophrenia, affective disorders (especially mania, BPII depression, and unipolar depressive disorders), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and comorbid alcohol and substance use disorders in patients from varied backgrounds, ages 18 to over 100 years old.

Multiple private and public settings in the Jacksonville area serve as inpatient and outpatient rotation sites, including geriatric psychiatry, forensics, community, addictions and child psychiatry.

Curriculum

Our expertly crafted programs are designed to provide residents and fellow physicians with all the experiences and training necessary for professional success.

See Program Schedule

Program details

Conference schedule

Didactics are designed to meet the needs of residents interested in providing evidence-based care that is personalized for the patient and informed by the biopsychosocial model, using combined treatment modalities including psychotherapy, psychotropic medications and social and systems interventions.

Required research projects and presentations round out the educational experience with residents encouraged to present at both internal research day activities as well as regional and state-wide psychiatric meetings, the American Psychiatric Association or national specialty meetings as dictated by the needs and interests of the resident.

Institutional review board or quality committee submissions and publications are closely mentored. Individual and group supervision is provided by multiple members of our diverse and talented faculty.

Call schedule

PGY1: Short call once per week, 5:00pm — 9:00pm
Weekend call (Saturday or Sunday) once a month, 8:00am — 3:00pm

PGY2: Short call once a week, 5:00pm — 9:00pm
Weekend call (Saturday or Sunday) once a month, 8:00am — 3:00pm

PGY3: Short call once a week, 5:00pm — 9:00pm

PGY4: No call

Didactics

Our didactics program has a combined option for all residents as well as didactics tailored by residency level.

All Residents: Tuesdays 1:00pm — 5:00 pm

• PRITE review, once per week for eight weeks (eight sessions)
• Grand rounds, twice per month for 12 months (22 sessions)
• Morbidity and mortality, once per month (12 sessions)
• PD/APD meeting with residents, once per month (12 sessions)
• Journal club, once per month (12 sessions)

PGY1: Thursdays 1:00pm — 5:00 pm

• Journal club, once per month (12 sessions)
• Introduction to legal and ethical concepts, twice per month (22 sessions)
• Neuromodulation, once per month for six months (6 sessions)
• Introduction to research, once per month for six months (6 sessions)
• Group supervision, once per week (52 sessions)
• Reproductive psychiatry, one per month for six months (6 sessions)

PGY2: Thursdays from 1:00pm to 5:00pm

• Advanced psychopharmacology, twice per month (21 sessions)
• Psychotherapy II, once per week (48 sessions)
• Emergency, once per month for two months (eight sessions)
• Psychosomatic, once monthly for eight months (eight sessions)
• Addiction, once per week for two and a half months (10 sessions)
• Geriatrics, once per week for two months (eight sessions)
• Child/adolescents, once per week for three months (12 sessions)
• Group supervision, once per week (52 sessions)
• Reproductive psychiatry, one per month for six months (six sessions)

PGY3 and PGY4: Fridays from 9:00am — 1:00pm

• Journal club, once per month (12 sessions)
• Advanced psychotherapy, once per week (48 sessions)
• Advanced resident mentoring, once per week for three months (12 sessions)
• Psychiatry practice, once per month for eight months (eight sessions)
• Culture and diversity in mental health, once per month for six month (six sessions)
• Integrative practices in mental health, once per month for eight months (eight sessions)
• Board review, once per month (12 sessions)

Salary and benefits information

As valued hospital employees, our training programs offer competitive resident benefits and ensure coverage for residents and their families across a multitude of life circumstances.

Please do not hesitate to ask any more detailed questions to your residency program director, residency program administrator, or our hospital director of human resources.

New residents and fellows receive up to $1000 for orientation (if it takes place before the official employment date).

The above amounts are subject to taxation.

Benefits

The hospital provides a comprehensive list of personal benefit package options. The most current plan, enrollment and renewal information may be found on the hospital human resources benefit site. Benefits include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Medical benefits, dental and vision
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Life insurance
• Up to six-weeks of continuous leave of absence during residency at 100% of base rate of pay. This paid leave is for a one-time event only.
• Flexible spending accounts
• CorePlus voluntary benefits
• HCA 401(k)
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Employee stock purchase plan
• The hospital will provide worker's compensation insurance consistent with the hospital's benefits program.
• Professional memberships
• Conference and travel expense
• Cell phone
• Laptop
• Other board prep and Educational expense

Vacation, sick or holiday

Each resident receives 20 days of paid time off (PTO) for vacation, sick, holiday or other time away from work. Vacation requests must occur prior to the beginning of each academic year. The PTO bank of hours does not carry over to the next academic year and residents will not be paid for unused time. Each academic year begins on July 1st and ends on June 30th.