I think searching for a chill residency is actually a really great idea and I fully support it. Psychiatry residency should not be a slog. Now this was 13 years ago, but out on the trail I saw a lot of residencies that used IN HOUSE residents as a sort of night float for psych patients. This is not how attendings practice and it's not how most (if any) non-academic hospitals will function post graduation. This is very financially helpful to the hospital, but I do not believe you learn best at 3 AM. Instead, you should be learning how to take home call and manage issues, particularly nurses, over the phone, which is what you'll be doing for most of your career. I also bizarrely saw psych interns doing 2 months of MICU rotations. This is, again, financially helpful to the hospital, but not educationally valuable. Heck, I even saw residents doing phlebotomy. There is not at all a direct correlation between more work and more education. A chill residency has everyone from LVNs to LCSWs to NPs working at the top of their license so that not everything ends up being done by the residents just because they require the least organization and are cheapest. Ideally, it would show a resident how a hospital or practice should be run so that they know what to be looking for in a first job.