Public and Rural Health Track

The Public and Rural Psychiatry Track is designed to provide an added focus for residents who are passionate about mental healthcare delivery models and would like increased experiences in the public psychiatry sector. Residents who complete the track will be equipped to become leaders in community psychiatry and engaged in population-level mental healthcare. Residents will be introduced to a variety of models of care throughout their training. The goal of the track is to increase the number of psychiatrists prepared to meet the recruitment and retention needs of public agencies in Iowa.

Residents are assigned a mentor who has an interest in public and rural psychiatry to work with throughout their training. During the four years of psychiatry training, a variety of additional opportunities are available to track residents, including family medicine rotations in rural communities, opportunities to work with community agencies, participate in telepsychiatry to rural communities, engage in additional lectures and workshops focused on public and rural psychiatry, and work in a variety of psychiatry practices located in rural Iowa settings.