Year Two Didactics
Case-Based Team Learning (90 minutes, 50 weeks)
Essential topics in psychiatry, including neurobiology, diagnosis, phenomenology and psychopathology, epidemiology, psychiatric diagnosis, psychopharmacology and therapeutics of major psychiatric disorders. In Team Learning, unlike PBL, each team member is expected to learn the basic content from assigned readings prior to class and come prepared for application of that knowledge in the group exercise. The PGY-1s and 2s are divided into three year-long teams that tackle the group exercise and then receive feedback on their solutions from the module's expert faculty discussant who leads the large group discussion. Accountability for learning is provided by frequent testing and peer expectations for all to arrive prepared and participate actively. This learning format is designed to eliminate passive learning, increase effective team problem-solving skills, and promote habitual study during residency.
Psychotherapy Survey Course (26 weeks)
The basic concepts of modern psychotherapy are related to a broad spectrum of contemporary therapeutic techniques to help PGY 2 residents become grounded in theory, become informed listeners, and learn to make therapeutic interventions. Particular emphasis is will be placed on matching clinical problems to appropriate therapeutic modalities.
Practical Psychotherapy (26 weeks)
Provides a theoretical and practical context for the understanding of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Residents read from the works of Harry Stack Sullivan and Hilda Bruch and discuss current cases towards the goal of integrating descriptive, biological, and psychodynamic approaches to the treatment of mental disorders.
Consultation/Liaison Seminar (8 weeks)
Evidence-based medicine case conference with case presentation and literature critique
Chairman's Rounds (50 weeks)
Weekly review of two Critically Appraised Topics in psychiatry presented by PGY-1's and 2's, with large group discussion and commentary by the Department Chair, Ranga Krishnan.
Evidence-Based Medicine Review Course (90 minutes, 14 weeks)
Hands-on review and skills practice in evidence-based medicine, using the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice as the main text. Small groups tackle worksheets on specific EBM skills (e.g. confidence intervals, survival curves, NNT, publication bias, Forest plots, etc…) followed by large group discussion. Topics are linked to articles related to the weekly Grand Rounds subject whenever possible.
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