Core Curriculum
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The academic year is divided into 13, four-week-long blocks:
PGY-1
- Five Inpatient
- Four Primary Care (Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Geriatrics)
- One Consultation Liaison
- One Emergency Psychiatry
- One Night Float
- One Neurology
PGY-2
- Three Inpatient
- Two Child & Adolescent
- One Consultation Liaison Psychiatry
- One Addiction
- One Geriatric Psychiatry Consultation
- One Emergency Psychiatry
- One Night Float
- One Neurology
- One Elective
- One Community Inpatient Psychiatry
PGY-3
- 12.5 Outpatient Clinic
- 0.5 Night Float
PGY-4
- 6.5 Elective
- 1.25 Consultation Liaison
- 1.75 Community Psychiatry Consultation (Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center East Hospital)
- One Neurotherapeutics
- One Forensic Psychiatry
- One Inpatient
- One half-day-long, weekly outpatient clinic session
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The continuum of care from acute intoxication and withdrawal to long-term management; exploration of the ethical, social and political issues that may impact care of this population
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Includes participation in weekly question reviews and a senior-level course prior to graduation
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Covers mental healthcare financing, operations and other business aspects of a psychiatry practice, as well as personal finance and investment
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How to work with children, adolescents and families facing normal and abnormal development issues from diagnosis through treatment; emphasis on family systems and child abuse, interviewing techniques, history-taking and family therapy
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Explores critical elements of successful mental healthcare delivery in community settings, such as organization, administration and clinical care services
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Reviews the skills necessary for successful consultation with an emphasis on communication, patient care, systems-based practices and morbidity reduction
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Reviews the impact of world events and culture on modern psychiatry; includes practical applications to patient care.
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The history and importance of mental disorder classifications and diagnostic criteria for each condition.
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Assessment and intervention of patients experiencing psychiatric crisis, including declarations of suicide or homicide, catatonia, agitation, psychosis, substance-related emergencies and other emergencies
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A comprehensive overview of epidemiology, etiologies, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of psychiatric conditions.
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Develops awareness and understanding of the ethical issues inherent to psychiatry beginning with the American Psychiatric Association’s Code of Ethics; concentration on ethical and legal issues in patient care, such as autonomy, beneficence, capacity, confidentiality and consent.
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Strategies for searching relevant psychiatric evidence to answer straightforward and complex clinical questions and improve psychiatric decision-making
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An overview of this subspecialty, including review of landmark cases, civil commitment, competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, confidentiality and privilege, malingering and forensic reporting
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Reviews the cultural, social, economic, clinical and pharmacologic distinctions that can impact care in older adults; includes diagnosis, treatment and long-term management of neurocognitive disorders as well as the effects of chronic mental illness
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Analyzes the historical foundation of psychiatry and its relationship to the evolution of medicine and healthcare delivery
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Covers interventional psychiatry treatments including biofeedback, deep brain stimulation, electroconvulsive therapy, ketamine infusions, psilocybin, transcranial magnetic stimulation and other techniques of neuromodulation.
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Teaches better interview skills and how to improve the patient-physician relationship and professionalism; practical techniques for gathering information from patients with varying degrees of cooperation
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Regular assessment of each resident’s mastery of core competencies, including communication and interpersonal skills, professionalism, medical knowledge, patient care, practice-based learning and systems-based learning; activities include practice of clinical interview skills, medical knowledge exams, project presentations and attendance at quality improvement and scholarly events
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Gives a foundation of clinical neurology and neurobiological science, emphasizing core concepts and skills relevant to practicing psychiatrists
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Learn about the use, indications for and interpretation of various psychological testing instruments commonly applied to patients with behavioral health issues
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A review of the most recently administered PRITE, including discussion of critical learning points and individualized feedback
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Covers introductory, advanced and controversial topics in current literature with an emphasis on critical and evidence-based psychopharmacological decision-making; also explores the socioeconomic implications of treatment