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Rotation Sites

UK Hospital University of Kentucky Hospital
University of Kentucky Hospital is a 400-bed hospital with a 17-bed medical/psychiatric unit where residents rotate in their first and second years of psychiatry and as senior residents for an elective in a junior attending mode.

UK Outpatient Clinic
The University of Kentucky Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic is located approximately four miles from the main campus in a spacious, attractive facility with large meeting rooms, group rooms, a play therapy room, and library. Approximately 100 patients per day are seen at this facility in a variety of special clinics including Child Team Clinics, Forensic Clinics, Adult Team Clinic, and Psychopharmacology Clinic. State of the art telemedicine equipment links the clinic with main campus and a variety of distant sites for clinical, administrative and educational purposes. Also located in the building are the Department of Psychiatry Research program offices and the Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment Service (CATS program) - an assessment and intervention program for neglected and abused children funded by the state and co-administered by the Department of Psychiatry and the College of Social Work.

VA Medical Center Veterans Affairs Medical Center
The Veterans Affairs Hospital is a 333-bed acute care facility adjacent to the University of Kentucky Hospital that contains a 19-bed acute care psychiatry unit. The VA also includes a facility five miles away that provides outpatient services for substance abuse, posttraumatic stress disorder and a wide variety of general psychiatric illness.

Kentucky Clinic University Health Service
Some residents rotate to the University Student Mental Health Clinic, an outpatient service providing services to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Kentucky.

Consult/Liaison Service
The University Hospital and the VAMC each provide consultative services to their respective facilities. In addition, the University Consult/Liaison (C/L) Service provides daytime service to the Emergency Department at the University of Kentucky Hospital.

Eastern State Hospital
Eastern State Hospital is the oldest continuously operating state hospital in the United States. This 250-bed psychiatric facility provides inpatient services to multiple counties in Central Kentucky.

Bluegrass Community Mental Health Centers
Residents rotate in their PGY-III and IV years to the Bluegrass Community Mental Health Centers, a network of community mental health outpatient facilities that provide services to the 17-county area surrounding Lexington.

Other affiliated sites: Kentucky School for the Deaf, Harris Center for Psychology Services, Shepherd’s House, Oakwood, and Ridge Hospital.

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