Shenouda Abdelshahid Wahba

This period included five months of training in the Addiction Unit, providing exposure to inpatient care, outpatient services, and recovery clinics. It also included three months of training in general psychiatry and old age psychiatry, encompassing inpatient and outpatient care, geriatric psychiatry clinics, and liaison consultations for other hospital departments.

This experience strengthened my expertise in inpatient clinical practice and the management of psychiatric emergencies, including substance intoxication, behavioral problems in adolescents, personality disorders, and acute agitation.

This period provided extensive clinical exposure, including:

• Child Psychiatry: Three months of training in child psychiatry clinics, including participation in three outpatient clinics per week and twice-weekly grand rounds.
• General Psychiatry: Six months of training with responsibilities including two outpatient clinics per week, at least 24 hours per week in the emergency room, inpatient shifts of at least 24 hours per week, and primary responsibility for 4–7 inpatients. Weekly participation in one to two grand rounds.
• Addiction Psychiatry: Six months of training in addiction psychiatry, including four outpatient clinics per week, at least 24 hours per week in the emergency room, inpatient shifts of at least 24 hours per week, and primary responsibility for 6–8 inpatients. Weekly participation in one to two grand rounds.
• Neurology: Six months of training in the Neurology Department, with exposure to inpatient care (at least 48 hours per week), emergency neurology (at least 24 hours per week), and two general neurology outpatient clinics per week."

This period was part of my residency, during which I was fortunate to gain 13 months of exposure to military and forensic psychiatry—areas that are rarely encountered—significantly deepening my knowledge and expertise.

This period was particularly unique due to extensive exposure to old age medicine, managing approximately 30–35 inpatients per shift, most of whom suffered from disabling neurological, psychiatric, cardiovascular, and other chronic conditions.

This period coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, during which most of my training was in the ER and ICU caring for COVID patients, alongside exposure to other specialties including:

• 2 months in Pediatrics
• 2 months in Obstetrics and Gynecology
• 2 months fully dedicated to the Emergency Room

his period included two months of training in Internal Medicine (inpatient and emergency settings), two months in General Surgery (inpatient and emergency), one month in the Orthopedic Department (emergency and inpatient), and one month in the Toxicology Department (emergency care).