Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Department of Psychiatry

PGY I Educational Program


Didactic Curriculum:


Psychiatric Interviewing (Kanwal)
Tuesday, 8:00 - 9:15 AM
Starting June 28, 2005 throughout the year
@ Greenberg 11.230
The fundamentals of psychiatric interviewing including phenomenology, the mental status exam, psychiatric history taking, and case presentations. Diagnosis in psychiatry including the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Introduction to psychodynamic interviewing and assessment. Aspects of the doctor-patient relationship in psychiatry including the therapeutic alliance, boundaries and boundary violations, transference and countertransference. Special interviews for research and evaluation including the SCIDs, SADs, YBOCS, etc.

Perspectives in Psychiatry (Wirth)
Tuesday, 7:30-8:15 (dates TBA)
Introduction to the field of psychiatry and the fundamental perspectives used in the understanding and treatment of mental illness. The course will use The Perspectives in Psychiatry by Slavney and McHugh as a basic text

Clinical Issues in the Internship Year (Barnhill, Chief Residents)

Fridays, TBA

Site Based Curriculum:

Medicine and Neurology

Site based curriculum for each service
Center for Special Services: Psychiatric and Neurological Manifestations of HIV related illness (Nims), HIV Case Conference

Payne Whitney -Westchester

4 North: Case Conference (weekly)
4 North: Geriatric Lecture Series (Addonizio, Klimstra, et al)
Including topics such as: epidemiology, psychoendocrinology, depression and mania in the elderly, delerium and dementia, late onset schizophrenia, the medically ill patient, principles of geriatric psychopharmacology, common drug interactions, neuroleptics in the elderly, electrophysiology of geriatric disorders.
4 North: Geriatric Research Seminar (Alexopoulos et al)
3 South: Case Conferences, lectures, supervision
Grand Rounds and Grand Rounds lunch (weekly September-June)

Payne Whitney-Manhattan
11-North site based curriculum including fundamentals of evaluation, diagnosis, risk assessment, introduction to pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy, introduction to inpatient psychiatry E.R.-site based curriculum including introduction to E.R. psychiatry
Professors Rounds (weekly)
M and M conference 5X year
Grand Rounds (weekly September-June)

Interns' Meeting with Chief Residents: (monthly)

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PGY 1
·  Overview
·  Clinical Program
·  Educational Program
·  Program Requirements

PGY 2
·  Overview
·  Clinical Program
·  Educational Program
·  Curriculum (pdf)
·  Program Requirements

PGY 3
·  Overview
·  Clinical Program
·  Educational Program
·  Curriculum (pdf)
·  Program Requirements

PGY 4
·  Overview
·  Clinical Program
·  Curriculum (pdf)
·  Program Requirements
·  Chief Residency
·  Residents Graduation Papers

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Neurology-Psychiatry Combined Residency Program
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Geriatric Psychiatry Training Program: Weill Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry