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Psychiatry Residency Training Program: Curriculum

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Today’s psychiatrists master a breadth of knowledge that is unparalleled in medical subspecialties.  To help residents organize and retain what they learn, we devote an entire day per week to didactic training and continue to seek innovative teaching and learning techniques.  We favor learning in small interactive groups and often use a roundtable tutorial format.  Residents are expected to complete reading and presentation assignments in order to get the most out of these sessions. PGY 2 and PGY 3 residents receive a two-year sequence of classes together, in addition to seminars and conferences organized within the various clinical rotations.  The following is a list of typical topics covered during the four years of training (subject to change): PGY1 Diagnostic interviewing Inpatient case conference Inpatient psychopathology Inpatient psychopharmacology Introduction to psychopharmacology Internal medicine conferences Neurology conferences Neuroradiology and neuropathology conferences Principles of inpatient psychiatry PGY2 and PGY3 Biologic Module ECT, TMS, VNS Emergency and C/L Psychiatry Evidence-based medicine Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychological testing Neuroscience Psychological testing Psychopathology Axis I Psychopharmacology Psychopharmacology case conference Psychotherapy with psychopharmacology Sleep, eating and sexual disorders Psychologic Module Brief psychotherapy Brief psychotherapy case conference Child development Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) CBT case conference Intro to psychodynamic theory Intro to psychotherapy Jungian psychotherapy Psychodynamic psychotherapy Psychotherapy case conference Psychopathology Axis II Social Systems Module Child and adolescent psychiatry Culture/ethnicity and spirituality Drug and alcohol abuse Ethics Family and couples therapy Forensic psychiatry Geropsychiatry Group psychotherapy History of psychiatry Leadership, management and teaching in psychiatry Medicolegal issues Organizational behavior and public psychiatry Women's mental health PGY4 Career development Research Senior resident project and Grand Rounds presentation Senior selectives Any classes missed in PGY2 or 3 are made up in PGY4 All PGYs Integrated Case Conference (except PGY1's) Journal club (except PGY1s) Practice-based learning and improvment (except PGY1s) Process group Psychiatric Grand Rounds Systems-based practice (except PGY1s)   As we strive to make our didactic classes informative and engaging, we regularly modify our curriculum in response to residents' evaluations and changing educational needs. We expect that residents will actively pursue their own learning by reading on their own as well. Residents are encouraged to help design courses and are given opportunities to teach, give Grand Rounds presentatations, etc.