PGY 4 Year
Advanced Psychopharmacology – Dr. Ben Srivastava (7 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. Erin Engle (3 sessions) – an introduction to this evidence-based treatment.
Differential Psychotherapeutics – Allison Grossman (5 sessions) – In this advanced course, cases are discussed by experts from the framework of different types of psychotherapy to explore different approaches to evaluation and treatment.
Forensic Psychiatry (7 sessions) /Ethics (4 sessions) – Drs. Ryan Lawrence, Paul Appelbaum and Faculty – 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 (5 sessions) – 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 – Drs. Diana Martinez, Jeff Zabinski, Natalie Gukasayan, and Adam Sands (5 sessions) – intensive, interactive training in ECT, TMS and Ketamine.
Office Practice – Dr. Seth Berger (2 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 (5 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.
Psychodynamic Psychiatry – Dr. Yael Holoshitz (8 sessions) –This advanced psychodynamic course will focus on applications of psychodynamic principles in general psychiatric settings, with the goal of helping PGY4 residents consolidate their psychodynamic thinking and consider its utility in their careers moving forward. The course will cover psychodynamics of medication prescribing, treatment refractory depression, psychotic disorders, and psychiatric recovery.
Teaching Medical Students – Dr. Janice Cutler(2 sessions) — For the second half of the academic year, all fourth-year residents serve as weekly preceptors, teaching small groups of medical students the task of interviewing psychiatric patients. These two sessions provide an overview and a check-in for the course.
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (4 sessions) – Drs. Richard Hersh and Benjamin McCommon – An introduction to advanced techniques for treating personality disorders.