Didactic Activities
What to Expect
Learning happens multimodally through bedside teaching, seminars, conferences, team projects, scholarly activity, and individual faculty supervision. From the start, residents have the opportunity to mentor and supervise third- and fourth-year medical students, helping build their acumen as clinician-educators. As appropriate to the clinical setting, residents also receive caseload supervision, expert psychotherapy supervision, and child psychiatry supervision. In the outpatient clinic, they work closely with faculty preceptors who hold “educational huddles” twice a day to enhance learning from the clinical material. The curriculum is refined yearly, in alignment with rotation goals and resident and faculty feedback.
PGY1
- Essential Psychiatry
- Topics in Emergency Psychiatry
- Landmark Studies in Psychiatry
- Acute Services/Introduction to Psychopharmacology
- Interviewing
- Inpatient Case Conference
- Group Therapy (introduction to coping skills and CBT/DBT interventions)
- Medicine and Neurology didactics
PGY2
- Child Psychiatry
- Introduction to Psychotherapy
- Fundamentals of Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Geriatric Psychiatry
- Neuropsychiatry - Introduction and Differential Diagnosis
- Consult Liaison Psychiatry
- Addiction and Substance Abuse
- Group Therapy (introduction to coping skills and CBT/DBT interventions)
- Inpatient Case Conference
PGY3
- Women’s Mental Health
- Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Interventional Psychiatry
- Ethics
- Controversies in Psychiatry
- Collaborative Treatment
- Ambulatory Psychopharmacology
- Outpatient Case Conference
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Brief Psychotherapeutic Treatments
- Advanced Topics in Outpatient Psychiatry
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Deliberate Practice
PGY4
- Advanced Practical Psychopharmacology
- Advanced Topics in Outpatient Psychiatry
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Psychotherapy Continuous Case Conference
- Research and Design (Optional)
All Years
- Various Topics in Trainee, Local, and System Grand Rounds
- Journal Club
- Quality Improvement
- Morbidity and Mortality Conference
- Special Topics with Faculty
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