MercyOne Des Moines-PHC Consortium Program

Program Identity & Fit

MercyOne Des Moines/PHC Consortium is a faith-rooted, community-based psychiatry program (four residents per year) built around comprehensive, continuous, coordinated care across inpatient, outpatient, and community settings rather than subspecialty prestige. Training is broad-based, spanning inpatient and consult psychiatry, neurology, emergency psychiatry, geropsychiatry, child/adolescent, substance abuse, and a longitudinal PGY3 resident continuity clinic, with additional exposure to TMS therapy and an integrative medicine curriculum. Research is present only as a defined four-week PGY2 block and elective options, indicating scholarly work is structured in but not central to the program's identity. The program's Catholic mission heritage and emphasis on community health, coordination of care, and multidisciplinary practice suggest it values residents oriented toward general, whole-person psychiatric practice in underserved or community settings rather than narrow academic subspecialization.