FOURTH POSTGRADUATE YEAR

Four months of consultation/liaison psychiatry is required in the fourth year. On the C/L service, residents learn to integrate their knowledge of biopsychosocial medicine by consulting and collaborating with their non-psychiatric physician colleagues in a general hospital. Experience is offered at a city/ county hospital, private general hospital, and an AIDS clinic, a comprehensive cancer treatment center and a breast center.   The remainder of the year involves a weekly Child and Adolescent Clinic and a broad range of clinical, administrative, teaching, and research electives. Among the more popular are forensic psychiatry, ACT team, chemical addictions, ECT, Day Treatment Center, geriatric psychiatry, preparation for private practice, various research opportunities, and an eating disorders unit. In addition to continuing psychotherapy cases during elective time.

Core didactics include a continuous case conference and a selective series of advanced psychiatry seminars, which is revised each year in consultation with the resident group. Having covered all of the requirements, the coordinator of this course provides the residents a list of "areas of faculty expertise you didn't know about," and the residents pick and choose. In addition, a series of seminars on preparation for various career paths a review of neurology, an overview of general psychiatry, and on cognitive neuroscience are included in the PGY-4 course. Residents participate in tutorials with the faculty and continue seven hours of supervised outpatient psychotherapy throughout the fourth year.