Specialties
General Psychiatry Didactics
PGY-1
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Course / Instructor |
Description |
Duration |
| Crash Course Chief resident |
Provides interns with a "crash course" in inpatient and emergency psychiatry, on-call issues and responsibilities, legal issues, and a frame-work for continued progress in psychiatric residency education by introducing the concept of supervision. | Two hours per week for 8 weeks |
| Legal Issues Cameron Quanbeck, M.D. |
This seminar addresses basic legal issues that arise in residency training and practice and facilitates appropriate decision-making (malpractice and other forms of liability, sexual boundaries in the therapist- patient relationship, law and the impaired physician). | One hour per week for 11 weeks |
| Psychosomatic Medicine Psychosomatic medicine faculty |
In consultation liaison psychiatry, faculty bring together the theory and practice of consultation to nonpsychiatrists in the general hospital. In this seminar, residents learn how to serve as a psychiatric expert for his/her medical colleagues. | One hour per week for 15 weeks |
| Basic Psychopharmacology Jaesu Han, M.D. |
This seminar provides an overview of the fundamentals of psychopharmacology including antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiolytics, and antidepressants. | One hour per week for 8 weeks |
| Empathic Interviewing Mark Servis, M.D. |
An introduction to basic psychiatric interviewing techniques with a focus on empathic, nonjudgmental interviewing. Videotapes of resident and faculty interviews are carefully reviewed. | One hour per week for 5 weeks |
| Neurology Shannon Suo, M.D. |
A review of common neurologic disorders relevant to psychiatrists. | One hour per week for 4 weeks |
| Introduction to Religion and Spirituality David Gellerman, M.D., Ph.D. |
This seminar addresses the roles of religion and spirituality in psychiatric practice, including research data on the impact of religious and spiritual beliefs and practices on health care, the role of these beliefs and practices in coping with serious illness and end-of-life care, working with pastoral services, and spiritual issues in substance use. | One hour per week for 2 weeks |
| Introduction to Culture and Psychiatry Alan Koike, M.D. |
Residents will increase their awareness of the differences between their own cultural background and that of others and how these factors impact their work; gain a greater appreciation of how medical school and residency training shape their identity and indoctrinate them into the culture of medicine; and gain a greater appreciation of how their psychiatric training influences their conceptualization of mental illness. | One hour per week for 3 weeks |
| Milieu/Systems Martin Leamon, M.D. Mark Servis, M.D. |
An introduction to the concepts of systems theory and milieu therapy and their application to inpatient psychiatric treatment. | One hour per week for 2 weeks |
| Group Supervision Psychosomatic medicine faculty and senior residents |
Case-based discussion of psychiatric issues in medical settings. | One hour per week for 3 weeks for 6 months |
| Journal Club Mark Servis, M.D. |
Reading and review of classic articles from the general psychiatry literature | One hour per week per month for 6 months |
| Jail Psychiatric Service Didactics Robin Lin, M.D. Cameron Quanbeck, M.D. |
Discussion of various topics such as psychotic disorders, mood disorders, psychiatric manifestations of neurological/medical issues, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, personality disorders, ethics issues, legal issues, somatoform disorders, eating disorders and sexual disorders. | One hour per week for 12 weeks |
PGY-2
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Course / Instructor |
Description |
Duration |
| Community Psychiatry Martin Leamon, M.D. |
An introduction to community psychiatry and various practices with evidence-based assertive community treatment, dual diagnosis treatment, illness management and recovery, medications management/algorithms, family psycho-education, supported employment. | Two hours per week for 2 weeks |
| Addiction Disorders Martin Leamon, M.D. |
This seminar focuses on the identification, diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorders, including a discussion of local resources. | One hour per week for 6 weeks |
| Psychopharmacology Charles Schaffer, M.D. |
The seminar covers basic, advanced and novel uses of psychotropics; their integration with other treatment modalities, drug mechanisms and pathophysiology and rationale for treatment choices. Other relevant topics include ECT, a review of basic pharmacology principles, legal aspects of psychopharmacology, interpretation of psychopharmacology research and drug-drug interactions. | One hour per week for 36 weeks |
| Affective Disorders Don Hilty, M.D. |
This seminar provides a comprehensive review of affective disorders and biological and/or psychological treatment interventions. | One hour per week for 8 weeks |
| Anxiety Disorders Richard Maddock, M.D. |
This seminar provides a review of anxiety disorders to aid the clinician in diagnosing the illness, integrating psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy in the treatment plans, and conceptualizing outpatient treatment in a managed care environment. | One hour per week for 6 weeks |
| Neuropsychiatry James Bourgeois, M.D. |
This seminar covers the neuropsychiatry examination, presentation and risk of psychiatric illness in several neurological conditions, and psychopharmacological issues in neurologically impaired patients. | One hour per week for 6 weeks |
| Cultural Psychiatry Russell Lim, M.D. |
This course continues the curriculum begun on cultural psychiatry begun in year one, focusing on a new way of formulating cases provided by DSM-IV-TR to supplement the biopsychosocial model. Residents will become more familiar with cultures that they will encounter in their practice. | One hour per week for 10 weeks |
| Group Therapy Paul Cox, M.D. |
This seminar prepares residents to start and co-lead medication/support groups and interpersonal/psychodynamic groups. | One hour per week for 6 weeks |
| Religion and Spirituality David Gellerman, M.D., Ph.D. |
The main objective of this seminar is to explore and discuss the roles of religion and spirituality in psychiatric practice relevant to inpatient and community psychiatry. | One hour per week for 6 weeks |
| Ethics Jeff Gerstein, M.D. |
This seminar covers ethical issues relevant to the inpatient and community mental health settings of the PGY-2. | One hour per week for 5 weeks |
| Research Methods Sally Ozonoff, Ph.D. |
This seminar introduces residents to basic principles of research including experimental design, critically appraising the relevant literature, and data gathering and analysis. | One hour per week for 6 weeks |
| Psychological Testing Shelby Hyvonen, Psy.D. |
This seminar introduces the clinician to psychometric testing and equips residents to understand the difference between the various tests, when to seek psychological assessment, and how to understand the results. | One hour per week for 5 weeks |
| Teaching Medical Students Don Hilty, M.D. |
An introduction to basic pedagogical theory and fundamentals of effective teaching of medical students are reviewed. . | One hour per week for 2 weeks |
| Telepsychiatry Donald Hilty, M.D. |
An introduction to the principles of effective telepsychiatry with hands-on telepsychiatry training is provided. | One to two hours per week for 2 weeks (5 hours) |
| Inpatient Case Conference Martin Leamon, M.D. |
In the presence of the residents, either a faculty member or a resident interviews a hospitalized patient and then discusses the case in detail. Attention is given to interview style, diagnostic problems and treatment recommendations. | One hour per week for 10 months |
| APSS Clinic/CalWORKS Case Conference Alan Koike, M.D. |
A faculty member and a CalWORKS mental health clinician present a shared case in the presence of others, including the resident rotating at the APSS Clinic. They then discuss the case in detail, paying attention to diagnostic problems, systems issues and treatment recommendations. | One hour per month for 3 months |
PGY-3
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Course / Instructor |
Description |
Duration |
| Personality Disorders Martin Leamon, M.D. |
This seminar provides a review of personality disorders to aid the clinician in understanding, diagnosing and making treatment plans. The history of psychiatry in understanding personality disorders is reviewed. | One hour per week for 8 weeks |
| Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Kent Hart, M.D. |
Residents will learn basic concepts of exploratory psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Topics covered include applying basic concepts to various diagnoses, reviewing the symptom complex of Axis I & II symptoms in the treatment setting, learning the skills to apply the concepts to their own individual cases and developing professional attitudes of empathy, limit-setting, and open-mindedness. | One hour per week for 8 weeks |
| Geriatric Psychiatry Lloyd Benjamin, M.D. Andreea Seritan, M.D. |
Basics of epidemiology of the elderly and corresponding common psychiatric illnesses, with particular emphasis on affective and dementing disorders. Various treatment modalities are also discussed in depth, including pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy and family therapy. | One hour per week for 6 weeks |
| Child Psychiatry Child psychiatry faculty |
This seminar is a survey course of child development, PDD and ADHD using a didactic and case conference format to teach residents the most important elements of child and adolescent psychiatry via critical review of research papers and case discussion. Residents also present on one topic briefly surveying the current literature. | One hour per week didactic plus 1.5 hours per month case conference for 6 months |
| Child Group Supervision John Brown, Ph.D. |
Through discussion of ongoing child treatment cases, residents will gain a conceptual understanding of treatment issues and the implementation of strategies to address them. | One hour three weeks per month for 6 months |
| Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy Brent Ferm, Ph.D. |
This seminar covers basic, short-term psychodynamic theory through the viewing of videotaped sessions of residents. | 1.5 hours per week for 11 months |
| Psychotherapy and Cultural Experience Russell Lim, M.D. |
This seminar addresses both didactic and personal experiences of faculty in the department and how culture affects their lives, their process of acculturation, and their work with patients. Other topics include concepts of cultural resistances, ethnic transference and counter transference, and boundary issues. | One hour per week for 7 weeks |
| Self Psychology James Bourgeois, M.D. |
Residents use their own psychotherapy case material and apply the self-psychology model to the psychodynamic treatment of personality disorders. | One hour every other week for 12 weeks |
| Structure of the Mind Chris Larsen, M.D. |
This seminar covers theories of how the brain is organized and theoretical and clinical material on the unconscious, repression, schemas and personality structure. | One hour per week for 9 weeks |
| Ethics Gary Cavanaugh, M.D. |
This seminar reviews the ethical and moral dilemmas of the practicing physician relevant to outpatient practice, with a focus on the managed care environment. | One hour per week for 6 weeks |
| Spirituality and Religion David Gellerman, M.D., Ph.D. Mark Servis, M.D. |
In this seminar, residents explore and discuss the roles of religion and spirituality in psychiatric practice, focusing specifically on the spiritual issues that may become apparent during psychotherapy. | One hour per week for 3 weeks |
| Outpatient Psychiatry Case Conference Lloyd Benjamin, M.D. |
Residents conduct interviews with patients in the presence of other residents and the medical director. They then lead a discussion reflecting a very detailed mental status exam, differential diagnosis and psychodynamic formulation about the patient. The thrust of the conference is on psychodynamic formulation. | 1.5 hours per week for 12 months |
PGY-4
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Course / Instructor |
Description |
Duration |
| Gestalt Therapy Peter Cole, L.C.S.W. |
This seminar reviews Gestalt theory and clinical applications. | One hour per week for 5 weeks |
| Neuroscience and Psychiatry David Gellerman, M.D., Ph.D. |
This seminar reviews basic anatomy, physiology, and molecular biology related to human experience and behavior; current neuroimaging techniques; and how the techniques and research in neurosciences inform our current understanding of psychiatric illnesses and treatment. | One hour per week for 8 weeks |
| Cultural Psychiatry Russell Lim, M.D. |
This advanced course expands upon the concepts introduced during the second year course and applies them in a practical way to individual cases. Each resident has an opportunity to present one of their psychotherapy cases involving an ethnic minority client to a knowledgeable cultural consultant. | One hour per week for 5 weeks |
| Administrative Psychiatry Robert Hales, M.D., M.B.A. |
The goals of this seminar are to summarize the changes that have occurred in the private sector that affect psychiatric practice; provide an overview of the evolving behavioral health system; define and describe important concepts related to organizational theory and leadership that pertain to psychiatric practice; discuss the role of the medical director in organized care delivery systems; explain what capitation is and how it works in clinical practice; and describe how psychiatry is practiced in the following organizations: private psychiatric hospitals, VA, state and county agencies, health maintenance organizations. | One hour per week for 9 weeks |
| Spirituality and Religion David Gellerman, M.D., Ph.D. Mark Servis, M.D. |
Further exploration and discussion of the roles of religion and spirituality in psychiatric practice. The PGY-4 curriculum discusses topics that are more advanced and academic, such as transpersonal psychiatry and new religious movements and cults. | One hour per week for 5 weeks |
| Jungian Oriented Psychotherapy Jess Groesbeck, M.D. |
This seminar covers the evolution of psychoanalytic psychology as developed by Carl Jung. | Two hours per week per week for 2 weeks |