The PGY-III year is designed to provide training in a broad range of modalities and is based at the UMDNJ-University Behavioral HealthCare Center in Piscataway. In order to take advantage of a variety of outpatient experiences, a coordinated program was developed specifically for resident training. This program has allowed us to tailor a core minimum caseload that assures a diversity of experience. Training in individual long-term analytically oriented psychotherapy, as well as family and group psychotherapy is offered. Brief therapies, including dynamic, cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, supportive and crisis therapies are reviewed in depth. In order to gain knowledge of various practice settings, residents work part-time at community-based outlying offices of University Behavioral HealthCare in nearby New Brunswick, South Brunswick, and Edison. These offices are staffed with psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and mental health specialists, and offer a full range of general outpatient services to individuals of all ages. The units provide consultation and education services to agencies within their catchment areas. The Continuing Care Program of University Behavioral HealthCare for patients with chronic psychiatric diseases is organized as an integral part of the services provided by these outpatient units. Residents also participate in a managed care program developed by UBHC. The Managed Care program provides primarily brief intervention to a population that has contracted for all their mental health services.

Residents may also be assigned to the Rutgers Student Health Services, where they are closely supervised in the assessment and treatment of diverse psychiatric illnesses common to the undergraduate and graduate student population.

Third year residents take supervisory call at UBHC approximately two times per month and are exempt from call on weekends and holidays.