For All Residents
In addition to the clinical and education programs described for each PG year, all Weill Cornell residents participate in weekly psychiatric grand rounds at both Payne Whitney and the Westchester Division and departmental Morbidity and Mortality (M and M) case conferences. They are also invited to participate in the residentsŐ elective didactic seminar program, the careers in psychiatry seminar program, the residents' council and the residents' journal club. Residents are encouraged to participate as members on any of many departmental and hospital committees.
All residents are also invited to participate in numerous educational activities held throughout the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and its neighboring institutions. These activities include: the Richardson History of Psychiatry seminars, Sackler Institute (developmental cognitive neuroscience) study group, family therapy case conference, sleep-wake disorders case conference, human sexuality program case conference, HIV journal club, substance abuse rounds, spirituality discussion group, cross-cultural study group, neuropsychiatric case conference, forensic psychiatry case conference, personality disorders service research meeting (with Otto F. Kernberg), the biostatistics education program at Weill Cornell Medical College, Rockefeller University seminar for developmental neurobiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Behavioral Sciences grand rounds, the scientific meetings of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (Columbia), and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and many, many others throughout the medical center and the city.
Residents are encouraged to join and participate in activities of the American Psychiatric Association as well as the American Psychiatric Association New York District Branch.
Residents are also encouraged (and often funded) to participate in the Annual Meetings of the American Psychiatric Association, the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the American Society for Clinical Psychopharmacology, the annual meetings of the New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit of NIMH, the American Psychoanalytic Association, The American Academy of Child Psychiatry, American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, and many other national organizations. Weill Cornell residents present scholarly and clinical work in many of these national meetings each year.
Residents are nominated by the Department for the many honorary national fellowships offered by the American Psychiatric Association, the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, the U.S College of Mental Health, the American College of Psychiatry, the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training, the American Psychoanalytic Association, American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, and many others. Weill Cornell residents have an extraordinary record of winning these fellowships.