Educational Goals & Objectives
The PGY-I year is a broad-based clinical year designed to help the future psychiatrist to develop an identity as a physician and to develop solid clinical skills in medicine, neurology, and psychiatry.
- The PGY-I resident will develop astute biopsychosocial assessment capabilities, clinical management skills, and a compassionate approach to all patients across all care settings and physician specialties.
- S/he will begin to become familiar with the clinical presentations of a wide variety of psychiatric disorders and their treatment, primarily under close supervision in the inpatient setting.
- S/he will develop beginning skills in pharmacotherapeutics and psychosocial interventions for these disorders.
- S/he will understand the basic neurobiologic and social scientific bases for mental health assessment and treatment.
- S/he will begin to lay the foundation for lifelong learning skills, both in clinical rotations and didactics.
ROTATION MAP
DIDACTICS
Major Courses:
- Summer Course: Introduction to Inpatient Psychiatry & Ethics
- Psychopathology I
- Introduction to Interviewing and Psychiatric Diagnosis
- Substance Use Disorders
- Diversity, Culture, and Spirituality
- The Medical-Psychiatric Interface
- Inpatient Case Conference
All PGY Conferences:
Weekly:
Monthly:
- Grand Rounds
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Rounds
Annually:
- Harvard Research Day
- Visiting Professor Day (co-sponsored with Brigham & Woman's/Faulkner)
- Harvard Residents Day
- Mysell Lecture and Research Day
