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-Spring Curriculum
Introduction to Biological Psychiatry and Fundamentals of Neuropsychiatry (Friedman, Walton, et al)
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.
Research Literacy and Evidence Assessment (Freidman, Lee, 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 (Michels, Zonana, Lomonaco, Anthony, Martino, Dziedzic, Feldman)
Disease concept in psychiatry, phenomenology and nosology, psychopathology, concepts in epidemiology. 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(Auchincloss, Sombrotto)
Introduction to psychotherapy including the invention of the "talking cure," boundaries and boundary violations, non-specific factors in psychotherapy, goals for psychotherapy in acute settings, treatment alliance
Introduction to the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind, Case Formulation (Auchincloss, Makari)
Introduction to the psychoanalytic model of the mind. Case formulation. Case write-up and presentation.
Introduction to Cross Cultural Psychiatry (Zonana, Drake, Yuen)
Cultural issues in psychiatry, cultural formulation
Introduction to History of Psychiatry (Makari)
Site Based Curriculum
Payne Whitney-Manhattan
M and M Conference
Disorder of the Quarter Program
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
Disorder of the Quarter Program
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