PGY II

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
2
mos.		 Acute Inpatient Psychiatry
(VABHS, Brockton Campus) with ECT
1 mo. Short-Term Inpatient Unit (McLean Hospital)
1 mo. Community-Based Inpatient Psychiatry
(Corrigan Mental Health Center)
1 mo. Clinical Evaluation Center (McLean Hospital)
2 mos. Consult-Liaison Psychiatry (VABHS, West Roxbury Campus)
1 mo. Forensic Psychiatry (Taunton State Hospital)
1 mo. Partial Hospital Program (McLean SouthEast)
2 mos. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(Cambridge Health Alliance)
1 mo.  Night-Float Emergency Psychiatry (VABHS Boston, Brockton Campus)
Continuity Clinic: 4 hours per week (VABHS Boston, Brockton Campus)

 

 

Didactics

 

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:

  • Morning Report

 

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