Triple Board Residency FAQs

The Triple Board Residency offers a variety of opportunities for residents to connect with attending physicians, researchers and other residents within the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics.

Mentoring opportunities include a mentorship program to pair residents with mentors, semi-annual reviews with the program directors, and more.

Bonding opportunities include monthly triple board meetings, the annual triple board retreat, annual pediatrics retreat, annual psychiatry retreat, child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship retreat and an interdisciplinary house-staff forum.

EPIC at Eskenazi Health, Cerner at IU Health facilities (with Epic coming in 2027) and CPRS currently at Roudebush VA Medical Center.

There are myriad options from the Riley Hospital for Children-associated outpatient pediatric clinics, which care for many medically complex children, the county health system, which serves a culturally diverse population including a larger immigrant population, private pediatric practices, pediatric subspecialty clinics and international health care exposure.

Yes! PGY-3 residents participate in weekly psychodynamic psychotherapy didactics and receive exposure to a variety of psychotherapy modalities and patient populations.

Residents complete a three-month cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) rotation working with adult patients in the Functional Neurologic Symptoms Clinic. During the third year, residents also provide one year of psychodynamic psychotherapy to at least one adult patient.

Additional psychotherapy opportunities are available based on residents’ interests. Residents may gain experience in play therapy at the NeuroDiagnostic Institute (NDI), which provides a level of care comparable to state hospitalization for children. Elective and additional experiences include motivational interviewing (MI) and CBT in the context of substance use treatment within child and adolescent psychiatry clinics, as well as parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) and family therapy in the Disruptive Behavior Disorder Clinic. Depending on their areas of interest, residents may also have opportunities to take on trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT) cases.

Upper level residents and year above check-in intentionally before major transitions (PGY2- to adult psych side; PGY3 to outpatient adult psych side; PGY4 back to pediatrics; and PGY5 for transition to CAP and chief year). 

PGY-1 and PGY-2 residents receive three weeks plus five days at Christmas or New Year's Day and three days for education/conferencel.

PGY-3 to PGY-5 residents receive four weeks of vacation plus five days for education/conference.

Time off also includes three sick days/year, two wellness half-days while on pediatrics and six weeks of maternity/paternity leave without required make-up time. Up to six additional weeks may be taken without pay and require make-up time.

IU School of Medicine offers one of the best benefits packages in the country, including those for residents, fellows, their spouses and families.

Residents receive a competitive salary compared with other residency programs nationwide. Health and dental insurance are provided with no monthly premiums for residents and fellows, their spouses and their families. Residents also receive life, disability and medical malpractice insurance at no cost.

Additional benefits include free shuttle transportation between hospitals, free parking at all hospital locations and meal money for on-call nights. White coats and access to scrubs are also provided.

Residents, fellows, their spouses and dependent children are eligible for the Indiana University Tuition Benefit. Residents also receive free access to more than 200 software programs and training courses, including applications such as Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Office, as well as electronic access to commonly used textbooks and resources such as Zitelli, Nelson and the Red Book.

Psychiatry education funds of $350 are provided annually for PGY-1 through PGY-3 residents, increasing to $700 annually for PGY-4 and PGY-5 residents. Residents may also receive up to $1,500 in financial support for conference presentation expenses twice per year. 

Riley Hospital for Children is one of the nation's leading pediatric hospitals and offers all major subspecialties and a variety of interesting therapy options, including child life, art, music therapy and therapy dogs.

Riley Children's Health sees patients across the entire state and some surrounding states.

As the largest allopathic medical school in the country, ample opportunities are available for teaching medical students/supervising. There are opportunities to give lectures to medical students formally as part of their psychiatry clerkship or informally with those rotating on service.

Triple board residents have four days of pediatric conferences and a half-day of psychiatry didactics, with lunch provided each day. Residents will also have access to pediatric, psychiatry and neurology grand rounds.

Multiple research opportunities are available for our residents, from basic science to QI to clinical projects in both pediatrics and psychiatry. Our faculty are eager for you to join their projects or support you in developing your own. Research is not mandatory, but is available to interested residents. You may also set aside research time at various points in training, coordinated on an individual basis.

The Psychiatry Residency program offers a research track which includes regular meetings, mentorship and journal clubs. 

Triple board residents are also encouraged to apply to the Morris Green Physician Scientist Development Program through the Department of Pediatrics. The program was created to identify and support pediatric residents and fellows who want to develop careers as pediatric researchers, physician scientists and future academic leaders. The program supports physician scientists-in-training with an annual $3,000 stipend, and mentorship and seminars that exceed the training and resources provided in a typical residency and fellowship program.    

Our program is receptive to resident feedback and advocates for their education and well-being. Two examples of recent changes following resident feedback include psychiatry call structure changes — PGY3 call changed to short-call structure — and psychiatry didactics — residents now have exposure to the same psychiatry training as categorical colleagues.

Free lunches are provided four to five days per week on the pediatrics side. We provide Gold-Card cash for on-call meals with hospital options. On psychiatry rotations, Gold-Card/Eskenazi-Card money for meals is also available.