PGY-I Educational Program 2008-9
Didactic Curriculum
Psychiatric Interviewing (Kanwal)
Tuesday, 8:00 - 9:15 AM
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)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)
4 North: ECT training
3 South: Case Conferences, lectures, supervision
Introduction to passing the boards
Introduction to legal issues in psychiatry
Introduction to neuropsychiatry
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; introduction to neuropsychiatry
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 and/or Training Director: (monthly)
Interns' Meeting with Chief Residents and/or Training Director: (monthly)