PGY 4 Year

Addictions: Bench to Bedside – Drs. Evan Kyzar and Nasir Naqvi (8 sessions) – Advanced concepts and techniques in addictions.

Advanced Psychopharmacology – Dr. Michael Grunebaum (9 sessions) – This course reviews advanced topics in psychopharmacology such as managing treatment refractory illnesses and use of third- and fourth-line agents, as well as management of more complex illnesses without clear treatment guidelines such as rapid cycling bipolar disorder.

Advanced Psychotherapy – PGY4s will have a series of advanced psychotherapy courses:

-Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) – Dr. Jeffrey Cohen (4 sessions) – an introduction to this evidence-based treatment.

-Demonstration of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy – Dr. Lyle Rosnick (8 sessions) – A video-taped long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy is presented and discussed by the senior faculty member who conducted the treatment.

-Differential Psychotherapeutics – Dr. Yael Holoshitz and faculty (5 sessions) – In this advanced course, cases are discussed by experts from the framework of different types of psychotherapy in order to explore different approaches to evaluation and treatment.

-Motivational Interviewing – Dr. Kenneth Carpenter (3 sessions) – A more advanced return to this core treatment, with a focus on addictions.

-Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (4 sessions) – Drs. Richard Hersh and Benjamin McCommon – An introduction to advanced techniques for treating personality disorders.

Forensic Psychiatry (6 sessions) /Ethics (4 sessions) – Drs. David Lowenthal, Ryan Lawrence, Paul Appelbaum and Ken Hoge (8 sessions) – The last of this series, this course will cover correctional psychiatry, malpractice, disability, and the role of the expert, as well as topics in Psychiatric Ethics such as sexual misconduct with patients and colleagues, research ethics, and ethical problems in a variety of different clinical circumstances.

Health Equity and Social Justice 4 – Drs. Jean-Marie Bradford and Patrice Harris – The final course in our HESJ series focuses on structural issues that affect access to care and diversity in the fields of medicine and psychiatry

Interventional Psychiatry – Dr. Diana Martinez (2 sessions) – intensive, interactive training in ECT and TMS.

Neuroscience of Psychotherapy – Drs. Gaurav Patel and Deborah Cabaniss (4 sessions) – Co-taught by a psychoanalyst and a neuroscientist, this course explores theories about the way in which psychotherapy works from a neuroscience perspective.

Office Practice – Dr. Seth Berger (3 sessions) – This course provides practical information on starting one's practice. Topics include: finding an office, setting a fee, record keeping, as well as treatment issues that relate specifically to private practice and managed care settings.

Public Psychiatry 4: Leadership and Management in Systems of Care – Dr. Stephanie LeMelle (4 sessions) – This group of classes, the last in our public psychiatry series, will focus on fiscal and administrative systems and on the role of the psychiatrist in these systems.

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.