My final, PGY-IV year of Psychiatry Residency Training through Harvard

My final year of psychiatry residency training program is definitely a unique experience, in the areas of professional and academic development, but also in personal growth.



Below is a spotlight of some of the academic endeavors that I am involved with; I still have clinical duties, too.

1.“Summer Series” psychopharm course from 7/2 – 8/27, on
Wednesdays,whereby I give lectures on the essentials of
psychopharmacology (mechanism of action,receptor profiles,
drug-drug interactions, etc).

2.Knowledge Base Review (PRITE) course from 7/2 – 8/27, on Wednesdays,whereby I give a lecture on various
sub-specialties/fields in Psychiatry,and this is followed
by a game-show style question & answer
session with resident team competition.

3.Inpatient Psychiatry Didactic curriculum from 7/2/2008 –
6/10/2009 on Monday and Tuesdays for PGY-Is and IIs. To include
hand-outs, PowerPoint presentations, interview role-playing.
Course covers DSM-IV-TR diagnoses,Interviewing Skills, unique
Case presentations, and Surviving tough On-Calls.

4.“Residents As Teachers” course from 9/10/2008 – 6/10/2009 on
Wednesdays for PGY-IVs, whereby I provide a lecture on how we, as
psychiatry residents, can become "Clinician Teachers" for our
medical students and junior residents. It's a "Train-the-Trainer"
curriculum, and we will have guest discussants, too.

5. Will also be involved in the Fall 2008 with the teaching of
the Harvard Medical students. They come to the VA to learn how
to interview patients with specific illnesses. A didactic is
correlated with the clinical condition.

6. I cover our Brockton VA Triage a few Fridays each month:
evaluating walk-in veterans for mental health concerns. It is
like an Urgent Care experience.