The setting
Our outpatient clinic is located at the city center and receives around 80-100 outpatient visits a day. Most of these patients are seen at the general psychiatry outpatient clinic by 7 or 8 third and fourth-year psychiatry residents, with oversight by the faculty consultants in charge. Reasons for use of outpatient services are multiple. In addition to new admissions and follow-up visits, there are those sent from courts or from prisons to be assessed for a forensic report, those who come for a medication refill only, and those who come for testing, including blood tests, projective and neurocognitive tests. There are also several specialty outpatient services, such as geriatric psychiatry, gender dysphoria clinic, drug dependence clinic, and forensic psychiatry admissions, all of which operate on certain days of the week.