PGY II Educational Program:
Didactic Curriculum:
Summer Curriculum: (Auchincloss, PGY IV’s, faculty)
Orientation to the year: clinical and educational program, rights
and responsibilities Orientation to the structure of the department,
the hospital, the health care system. Topics in acute hospital
psychiatry: procedures, medical records, ethics, monitoring fatigue,
patient risk assessment and management, acute psychopharmacology,
being on-call, etc. Orientation to C/L and E/R psychiatry.
Fall Curriculum:
Introduction to Biological Psychiatry and Fundamentals of Neuropsychiatry:
(Friedman/Silbersweig) The basics of clinical psychopharmacology.
The neurobiological basis of psychopharmacology. Behavioral neuroanatomy,
neuropsychiatric differential diagnosis and work-up, neuropsychiatric
mental status exam, history of neuropsychiatry, neuropsychiatric
emergencies, psychiatric aspects of neurological disorders including
stroke, tumor, MS, movement disorders, head trauma, infection and
epilepsy, etc., dementias, delirium/ mental status change.
Getting started in Research:
Research Literacy and Evidence Assessment (Leon, Fyer)
Learning to assess research data as presented in the psychiatric
literature through careful review of selected journal articles.
Getting started in research, including hypothesis generation, finding
a mentor, IRB procedures, how to use residency to prepare for a
research fellowship, etc. Residents will work as a group to begin
to plan projects for the 3 and 4 year. Initially the criteria for
each element of a scientific manuscript will be considered. Clinical
psychiatric research manuscripts will then be critically reviewed.
Fundamentals of Psychopathology (R. Michels, A. Lomonaco, K. Michels,
G. Makari, D. Anthony, Sobel)
Disease concept in psychiatry, phenomenology and nosology, the
history of psychopathology, concepts in epidemiology, cross-cultural
issues. Phenomenology, nosology, epidemiology, genetics, assessment
techniques, psychopathology and neuropathology of major psychiatric
disorders including schizophrenia and related disorders, affective
disorders, substance abuse and personality disorders.
Introduction to Psychotherapy, Introduction to the Psychoanalytic
Model of the Mind, Case Formulation: (Auchincloss, Makari, E. Marcus
and M. Viederman
Introduction to psychotherapy including boundaries and boundary
violations, goals for psychotherapy in acute settings. Introduction
to psychodynamic psychotherapy; how to begin a case. Introduction
to the psychoanalytic model of the mind. Case formulation. Case
write-up and presentation.
Site Based Curriculum:
Payne Whitney-Manhattan
Professors’ Rounds, specialty rounds, substance abuse rounds,
neuropsychiatry rounds, and other inpatient case conferences (weekly)
Consultation Liaison: Case Conference (weekly), Cancer rounds,
case-writing group rounds with Dr. Viederman
Grand Rounds: (weekly September-June)
Elective Program: Fridays 1 – 2 pm – Dates/Topics TBA
Payne Whitney-Westchester
Case Conferences (weekly)
Borderline personality disorder evaluation service (Kernberg, etc.)
13 weeks
Grand Rounds (weekly: September - June)
Other departmental seminars and lectures
Supervision (Off-unit, long-term psychotherapy)
E-group:
Tuesdays: September-June (E. Gould)
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