Department of Psychiatry

ACADEMICS

Didactics
Formal didactics occur on Wednesday afternoons with several other faculty and resident-led seminars throughout the week.  Follow the links below to learn about resident conferences:

• Monday didactic conferences
• Wednesday didactic conferences
• Thursday didactic conferences
• Friday didactic conferences

Grand Rounds and Peer Review
The Grand Rounds schedule includes guest speakers providing the latest information on a wide range of topics. These lectures, held from 1-2 PM on Wednesdays, alternate with Resident Peer Reviews in which PGY-II residents select a patient case for presentation with a faculty discussant. Evidence-based approaches to the clinical problem being presented are discussed with ample time for audience participation.  See the links above for the schedules.

Journal Club, Literature Seminars and Movie Days
Journal Club and Literature Seminars are held monthly as part of the regular didactics series on Wednesday afternoons. A variety of journal articles are discussed with attention to research methodology and critical reading of the paper. Periodically, there are movie days in which residents view and discuss movies with significant mental health themes.

Medical Student Teaching
Medical students are an integral part of departmental activities. Residents actively teach students during clinical rotations, in small group seminars and in large lecture classes. Residents are involved in small group learning activities throughout the formal medical school curriculum.

Telemedicine
A variety of telemedicine activities take place in our department. These include outreach to patients in rural areas and in the juvenile justice system through telemedicine clinics, broadcasting of grand rounds and peer review to community mental health centers throughout the state and resident courses taught by expert teachers at distant sites. Our program received the Award for Creativity in Psychiatric Education from the American College of Psychiatrists in 2002 for our excellence in telemedicine education. Many training conferences for residents and faculty of the department have been available via telemedicine.