[MUSIC PLAYING] DANIEL GIH: We are excited to share our program with future applicants. The UNMC Psychiatry Residency Program offers broad clinical training and academic, community, and rural settings. Residents mainly train at Nebraska medicine, a large academic health network with most rotations nearby. 

The program supports small cohorts of four to six residents per class and provides access to multiple fellowships, including addiction medicine and forensic psychiatry. We have a dynamic faculty of about 40 psychiatrists who are mostly clinician educators. And the program is based in the historic Poynter Hall, located in the heart of our medical complex. Our training is also known for strong mentorship, professional growth opportunities, community involvement, and support for conference travel. 

HANNAH MANOJ: I felt like when I was looking for residency program, I specifically had an idea of what I wanted to do for the future, which is work in an academic setting and work with young adults and adolescents. And I wanted a program that would accommodate those things, even if it wasn't necessarily included in their program already. And I feel like UNMC has really been good at that. 

I feel like speaking with the faculty that I've worked with so far, they're very willing to accommodate that. And also just are very much interested in what I plan to do. And are very much already thinking ahead how to help me out in the future. 

CHRISTIAN POLLEMA: The faculty in our program are very supportive and value our education greatly. It really has been a privilege to feel as though supervision and support are just a call or text away. 

Our program really values national involvement and have had the opportunity to attend several conferences and participate as a fellow of the APA during residency. Leadership in our program are very supportive of these pursuits and not only accommodate time away from clinical responsibilities, but actually encourage it as a part of our professional development. 

TONY LE: Yeah, I think my co-residents have been honestly like the highlight of the Red Sea Program. I think even though we all come from really different walks of life, I think the program has been able to really bring a great community who work well with each other. I think my co-residents, I can call them both colleagues and friends. I can talk about difficult cases with them and also just have fun with them. 

But I think the upperclassmen are always there to guide us about things they've struggled with and how they think things can be better. So I think everybody's here to help each other out and be better. So they've all been great. 

MELISSA O'DELL: I'm a lifelong Nebraskan and Omahan, and when I think about where you go when you want to get the best of the best care, I think Nebraska medicine, UNMC. Is that biased? Probably, I also come from a family of UNMC physicians, so I'm sure that factored in. But that was my assumption that this is where you go when you really want top-notch training and top notch patient care. 

And for me personally, I love the city of Omaha, and I think it's a great place to raise a family. There's nowhere else I'd rather be with raising my children and living my life than Omaha. And it was a good fit for me from that standpoint, which I think is an underappreciated aspect of our program, is how great Omaha is as a place to live. 

DANIEL GIH: So how do we know our residents are successful? I think a lot of them have been well supported with mentorship. A lot of them have taken advantage of our grand rounds series to network with national and internationally known speakers. Also, our residents are performing quite well on their in-training exam scores. And maybe most importantly, I think they are being highly recruited as they near and finish training. 

Several of our graduates in our first two years have joined our faculty, which I think is a good sign of our culture here and our positive learning environment. Also, there have been several other residents who have gone to competitive residency programs and child and adolescent psychiatry, consult liaison psychiatry, and also sleep medicine. So I do think that the training overall here is quite good and that residents will be well supported in whatever career paths they choose for themselves. 

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