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- The Division of Inpatient Psychiatry operates 50 acute beds for seven specialty programs including geriatric psychiatry, medical psychiatry, mood disorders, schizophrenia, and crisis stabilization.
- State-of-the-art psychopharmacology and brain stimulation therapies are offered, including Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation therapy (TMS).
- More than 21,000 patients are served annually through these programs. The division serves as a core training site for M-II through M-IV medical students,psychiatry residents, nursing students and graduate/post graduate trainees in social work and pharmacy. About 50 M-III students rotate through the inpatient psychiatry units at VCU Medical Center.
- Faculty members provide over 2400 consultative emergency psychiatric services to the department of emergency medicine annually.
- Faculty members provide nearly 4500 visits in geriatric psychiatry services through nursing home visits and a community clinic on Parham Road. We work to aid the homeless population and the underserved at community mental health services through Richmond Behavior Health Authority clinics, Rubicon, Inc, and the Daily Planet Clinics.
- The division conducts research in biological psychiatry, psychopharmacology, brain imaging, geriatric psychiatry and animal assisted activities.
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Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Medicine, Dept of Psychiatry
Last Update: August, 2012 according to departmental policy
1200 East Broad Street, P.O. Box 980710, Richmond, VA 23298-0710
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