ACADEMICS
Didactics
Residents are excused
from their clinical duties on Wednesday afternoons to attend didactics. Residents
meet in the department for lunch from 12-1 PM and are scheduled for didactics
from 1-5 PM. Didactics are interactive and involve multiple formats including
case-based conferences, videotaped interviews, psychotherapy material, literature
and film discussions and telemedicine courses. Didactics are organized to expose
residents to all areas of psychiatry over the course of residency. Residents are
involved in planning the schedule and senior residents may elect to teach selected
topics.
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.
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
prisons 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.
