Educational Goals & Objectives
The PGY-II year is designed to help the resident to establish a foundation of knowledge and skills in the diagnosis and treatment of a broad spectrum of mental illnesses.
- The PGY-II resident will deepen biopsychosocial assessment and treatment skills for psychiatric disorders across a wider variety of venues ranging from acute inpatient units in a private hospital to a state hospital forensic unit.
- S/he will broaden their clinical experience to include child and adolescent psychiatry and forensics.
- S/he will become familiar with the modality of partial hospitalization and its indications.
- S/he will begin to develop skills to address the complex issues that arise at medical-psychiatric interface, in terms of both clinical cases and inter-service liaison.
- S/he will begin to take on a teaching role, providing modeling and support for PGY-I residents.
- S/he will begin a graded introduction to outpatient treatment in the supervised Evening Continuity Clinic.
- S/he will begin to develop competence in reading research literature to inform her/his clinical practice. Residents with an interest in research career development will link with a mentor through the Resident Pathways to Research
ROTATION MAP
Major Courses:
- Summer Review Series: Inpatient Psychiatry & Psychopharmacology
- Psychopathology II
- Clinical Psychopharmacology
- Human Development
- Developmental Neuroscience & Clinical Psychiatry
- Geriatrics
- Research Methodology and Journal Club
- History of Psychiatry
- Inpatient Psychotherapy Case Conference
- Continuity Clinic Case Conference
- Human Sexuality
- Introduction to Neuropsychiatry
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
