PGY 2 Year
Summer Intensive classes – these classes are designed to help jump start the transition to the PGY2 year:
Summer Intensive – Urgent Psychiatry – Dr. Ryan Lawrence (2 sessions) – This course will review the basics of emergency psychiatry, including treatment of agitation and acute suicidality.
Summer Intensive – PGY2 Survival Guide – Chief residents (1 session) – This class will introduce residents to PGY2 night call.
Summer Intensive – Clinical Forensics – Drs. Elizabeth Ford and Stephanie Rolin (2 sessions) – This course will continue the teaching about clinical situations involving the interface between psychiatry and the legal system, including involuntary hospitalization. This will also include a field trip to Rikers Island with Dr. Ford.
Summer Intensive – Psychopharmacology – Dr. Patrick Hurley (3 sessions)Everything PGY2s need to know about psychiatric medications to get started on their rotations!
Child Development – Dr. Oliver Stroeh (8 sessions) – Normative child development is the focus of this three-month course. Physical and neurological growth, attachment, cognition, language acquisition and psychosocial maturation are discussed in the context of current and historical theories.
Clinical Experience – (weekly for 6 months)– This new learning experience will bring PGY1s and PGY2s to the clinical services to do observed patient interviews and presentations with PGY4s. There will also be a 4-session introduction to interviewing, presenting and formulation from Drs. Deborah Cabaniss and Pablo Goldberg.
Forensic Psychiatry – Dr. Paul Appelbaum and faculty (5 sessions) – The first in a series about Law and Psychiatry, this course will cover civil commitment, confidentiality, and informed consent.
Geriatric Psychiatry – Drs. Katy Brewster and Mark Nathanson (4 sessions) – This course will introduce residents to the evaluation and treatment of older adults with psychiatric disorders, as well as to the process of aging.
Health Equity and Social Justice– Drs. Jean-Marie Bradford (3 sessions) – the second course in this series, this year will focus on local systems that affect access to care and patient advocacy.
Integrated Case-Based Teaching Session– (7 sessions) – This monthly learning experience for all residents will bring experts from different fields together to discuss clinical situations.
Interventional Psychiatry – Dr. Jeffrey Zabinski (4 sessions) – This course will introduce PGY2s to ECT, TMS, and other techniques of interventional psychiatry.
Psychiatric Ethics – Drs. Ryan Lawrence and David Lowenthal (4 sessions) – The first in a series about psychiatric ethics, this course will discuss privacy and confidentiality, professional boundaries, research ethics, the impaired colleague, and ethical challenges in clinical practice.
Psychopathology and Treatment (P&T) – Drs. Evelyn Attia, Jeffrey Miller, Franklin Schneier, Yuval Neria, Jon Levenson, Gerald Hurowitz, and Thomas Smith (35 sessions) – One of the cornerstones of the PGY2 curriculum, this course will cover epidemiology, theories of etiology, seminal treatment studies, and current treatment strategies (pharmacologic and psychosocial) of affective disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, neuropsychiatry, trauma, and psychotic disorders.
Public Psychiatry 2 – Community Care for Severe Mental Illness – Dr. Stephanie LeMelle (4 sessions) – These are the first in a series of lectures that cover topics related to the care of people with severe mental illness in community settings. The course will center on the concept of recovery as it applies to housing, benefits, vocational rehabilitation, and systems of outpatient treatment.
Substance Use Disorders – Dr. Christina Brezing (5 sessions) – This course provides an overview of the major sustances of addiction, patterns of intoxication and withdrawal, and an introduction to treatment of substance use disorders provided in inpatient and emergency settings.
Supportive Psychotherapy – Drs. Emma Golkin (4 sessions) – This course will cover the basics of supportive psychotherapy, including indications and techniques for its use in inpatient and outpatient settings.
Teaching Medical Students – Dr. Janis Cutler (1 session) – Provides residents with an overview to teaching medical students psychiatry while rotating through the inpatient units.
Wellness – Dr. Renu Culas (10 sessions)– this experiential course, which all PGY1-4 residents will take together monthly, focuses on ways to maintain wellness as a resident, physician, and human being.