Post Transitional Year One (PTY 1)

PTY 1 Upcoming Class Schedule

Didactic Seminars covered

• DSM IV Diagnosis
• Emergency Psychiatry
• Evidence-Based Psychiatry
• Hospital Psychiatry
• Journal Club
• Psychiatric Interviewing
• Psychopathology and Treatment of Mental Disorders
• Psychopharmacology I
• Addiction Psychiatry
• Geriatric Psychiatry
• The Profession of Psychiatry
• Neurobiology
• Psychodynamic Principles
• Psychological Testing
• Psychopathology and Treatment of Mental Disorders
• Severe and Persistent Mental Illness

Supervision

Each resident is receives a minimum of 2 hours of individual, on-site supervision at each clinical rotation during the first Post Transitional Year.

Orientation and Teaching Call

To ease the transition into the first year, senior residents and faculty members conduct an orientation in January to introduce new residents to the details of the residency program. Topics include a review of the educational objectives of the program, clinical sites, and pertinent administrative procedures. Several other activities are planned to help residents begin their postgraduate education. The new residents' first eight calls are designated “teaching calls” in which a senior resident is “in-house” with the new first-year resident to provide immediate supervision and consultation. In addition, the First-Year Residents Group provides a venue to discuss issues pertinent to starting the residency that is led by the chief resident and meets weekly during the first six months of the inpatient rotations.