My understanding is that most psych residencies are 4 years and the "prelim" is built into the residency - otherwise some programs will accept you as a PGY2 into a program - some programs will accept a transitional, medicine or surg year as the PGY1 (you need to have like 4 months of general patient care of which only one month can be EM - I think those are the requirements - you should check out psych residency requirements). Hope this helps. Are you trying to get into a psych program after having done another residency?
No, you do not have to do a prelim year. Most schools only require that you dedicate only 6 months of your intern year to primary care. Typically it includes 2-4 months of inpatient Medicine/Peds/ER and 1-2 months of OUTPATIENT Medicine/OB as well as a month of Inpatient or Consult Neurology. Pretty cool, huh? It varies by program as to how much you do of each speciatly but 90% of the programs I looked at when applying for residency only required 6 months of non-psych work.
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