A Day in the Life: PGY-4
Cuneyt Tegin, M.D.
As a fourth year, I am mostly able to shape my own rotations. Fourth years have 3-month electives which allow us to create a schedule that can satisfy our interests. I have spent a month of an elective rotation reading a psychopharmacology book. There are no calls (except 3 weeks consult coverage), which gives us huge number of free weekends.
As a fourth-year resident, part of our duty is working as a junior attending at the inpatient unit for 3-12 months, depending on what we prefer. While at the inpatient unit, we have treatment team at 9 a.m. which include nursing staff, social workers, residents, therapists and the attending. Our general adult psychiatry patients are treated by talented PGY-1 and PGY-2 residents and hard-working medical students, and we discuss treatment plans with them.
I work at The Survivors of Torture Recovery Center half a day per week. This is a special outpatient clinic which serve survivors of torture who are refugees from 20+ different countries. The other outpatient clinic opportunity that I have is my own weekly psychotherapy clinic. I also cover telepsychiatry clinic occasionally, when one of my colleagues is out of office.
In addition to seeing patients, I also work on clinical trials with Dr. Rif El-Mallakh that focus on psychopharmacology.
I attend our weekly didactics on Wednesday afternoons, Academic Hour on Thursdays, and I have two hours each week protected for individual psychotherapy supervision.
In my free time, I play kick ball, run, play baglama, go fishing, take care of my chickens 🐔, lovebirds, go on road trips to different parts of the country, and read.
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