PGY IV Year Overview
The goal of the
PGY IV year is to facilitate the transition to the roles of independent
clinician, teacher, administrator and scholar/researcher.
All PGY IV residents
continue their outpatient work with a selected group of long-term
adult and child patients. In addition, PGY IV residents serve as
psychopharmacology consultants for non-physician therapists working
in the clinic and spend 3 hours/week (for either 6 month period)
working or supervising in a community-base mental health program
of his/her choice.
In addition, for
six months, each PGY IV resident works in a leadership role on one
of the clinical services at the Payne Whitney Clinic (including
the inpatient Service, Emergency Room, C/L service or O.P.D.) Here,
with the supervision of the full time faculty, the resident is responsible
for day-to-day clinical decision-making, supervision of junior residents,
and the administration of the service. In cooperation with each
other, the PGY IV resident group works closely with the Director
of Clinical Services of Payne Whitney Clinic to assume the daily
operations of resident-staffed clinical services to the fullest
extent possible. In addition, while serving as Assistant Unit chiefs,
PGY IV residents play a pivotal role in the supervision and teaching
of medical students clerks and sub-interns. PGY IV residents also
participate in the teaching of several pre-clinical courses offered
to Weill-Cornell Medical Students.
During the other
6 months of the year, when not working as an Assistant Unit Chief,
each PGY IV resident works in an area of selected interest, always
involving scholarship and research. Residents may choose to participate
in any area of clinical work or research in the Department of Psychiatry
at Cornell or in any one of many institutions related to research
and biomedicine in New York City (and sometimes beyond.) Mentorship
will be proved for the design of this selective program.
In addition to
continuing in intensive supervision for clinical work, PGY IV residents
participate in a 3 hour/week didactic seminar program scheduled
during “protected” time. The PGY IV curriculum includes: forensic
psychiatry, community psychiatry, administrative and occupational
psychiatry, ethics and special issues, advanced psychodynamic psychotherapy
including brief dynamic psychotherapy. PGY IV residents continue
their participation in the e-group experience.
All PGY IV residents
are required to write a scholarly paper that will be presented in
a Senior Paper Colloquium for residents and faculty. The best of
these papers will be presented at Departmental Grand Rounds. Over
the years, residents have written papers on a wide variety of papers.
Many of these papers have led to publication. (see our website for
titles of the graduation papers from the last four years: www.nycornell.org/psychiatry/residency/index.html) |
