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, Silbersweig)
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, J. Richardson, A. Lomonaco, G. Makari, D. Anthony, Martino, Singaracharlu)
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, M. Sacks, 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.
Introduction to Cross Cultural Psychiatry
Park et al. Cultural issues in psychiatry, cultural formulation
Introduction to History of Psychiatry
Makari et al
Site Based Curriculum
Payne Whitney-Manhattan
Professors' Rounds, specialty rounds, substance abuse 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 12 - 1 pm - Dates/Topics TBA
Payne Whitney-Westchester
Case Conferences (weekly)
Borderline personality disorder evaluation service (Kernberg, etc.)
Grand Rounds (weekly: September - June)
Other departmental seminars and lectures
Supervision (Off-unit, long-term psychotherapy)
E-group:
Tuesdays: September-June