Sample Didactic Topics

(Academic Year 2011 – 2012)

Seminars In Psychosomatic Medicine

Principles of evaluation:

• How to do a consult
• Cognitive assessment
• Neuropsychological exam
• Speech and language
• Psychotherapy in the general hospital

Psychiatric disorders in the medical setting:

• Delirium
• Agitation I
• Agitation II
• Depression in the medically ill 1
• Depression in the medically ill 2
• Dementia: diagnosis and subtypes
• Dementia: treatment
• Catatonia
• Somatoform disorders
• Alcohol dependence
• Alcohol and drug withdrawal
• Hospital Withdrawal protocols
• Smoking cessation
• Borderline personality disorder
• Sleep medicine

Clinical settings of psychosomatic medicine:

• Cardiovascular Issues in Psychiatry
• Transplant psychiatry 1
• Transplant psychiatry 2
• Neurology 1: Seizure Disorders
• Neurology 2: Neuropsychiatry of basal ganglia and cerebellum
• Conversion disorder and non-epileptic seizures
• HIV Psychiatry
• Geropsychiatry
• Palliative Care
• Vocal Cord dysfunction
• Metabolic considerations in psychotropic use
• Medical co-morbidity in severe mental illness

Systems issues in psychosomatic medicine:

• The role of the physician
• Career choices in psychosomatic medicine
• Non-academic career choices in psychosomatic medicine
• Multi-disciplinary team function 1: the demanding patient
• Multi-disciplinary team function 2: the disruptive patient
• Referrals: community mental health system organization
• Referrals: matching to community addiction treatment resources
• Procedure (CPT) coding
• Diagnostic (ICD-9) coding
• Patient- and family-centered care

Research Seminar Series

• Research: Basics 1
• Research: Basics 2
• Research: Basics 3
• Research: Publication 1
• Research: Publication 2
• Research: Funding 1
• Research: Funding 2
• Research: Randomized Controlled Trials 1
• Research: Randomized Controlled Trials 2
• Research: Randomized Controlled Trials 3
• Research: Randomized Controlled Trials 4
• Research: Randomized Controlled Trials 5
• Research: Designing a Trial-The Sitter Project 1
• Research: Designing a Trial-The Sitter Project 2
• Research: Designing a Trial-The Sitter Project 3
• Research: Designing a Trial-The Sitter Project 4
• Research: Cohort Studies 1
• Research: Cohort Studies 2
• Research: Case-Control studies
• Research: Meta Analysis 1
• Research: Meta Analysis 2

Chapter Reviews

• Chapter review: Renal
• Chapter review: HIV
• Chapter review: Substance Abuse
• Chapter review: Dementia
• Chapter review: Surgery
• Chapter review: Somatoform and factitous disorders
• Chapter review: Delirium
• Chapter review: Neurology
• Chapter review: Oncology
• Chapter review: Pain Medicine