Centralized Didactic Curriculum and Grand Rounds

Residents are assigned to various clinical sites for their rotations and site based didactics, but they come together on a weekly basis for centralized didactics and Grand Rounds.

The centralized didactic curriculum has undergone significant change in recent years. The focus has been on creating a centralized curriculum that actively engages the residents with material pertinent to their year of training and covers the broad spectrum of core knowledge that they need to become excellent psychiatrists. The use of adult learning principles, such as active involvement from the residents in the learning process and presenting material at the time when the residents are engaged in the issue, have been emphasized in the revised curriculum. Since learning is a collaborative process, resident suggestions about topics to add are always welcome and their active participation in the classroom is routinely expected.

The charts below depict the schedule of courses in the centralized didactic curriculum and other centralized educational activities:

Jul	"Psychiatry 101"*	Biopsychosocial Formulation*	Substance Use Disorders Seminar*	Inpatient Interviewing*	PGY1 Roundtable	Resident Grand Rounds
Aug
Sep						Master Clinician Interviews**
Oct	Residents attend Medicine and Neurology Didactics while rotating in those departments.					Department Grand Rounds
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun

* These courses take place during the three months when the resident rotates on the inpatient unit at the VA. Psychiatry 101 includes Acute Psychiatry, Therapeutic Communication, Evidence Based Mental Health and other topics.
** In this series, faculty members demonstrate their interviewing skills with a live patient.

Jul	On Call Psychiatry	Being a Yale Resident	Intro to Pharmacology			Resident Grand Rounds
Aug
Sep	Brain Camp					Master Clinician Interviews**
	Mind Camp
	Social Psychiatry Camp		Integrative Psychiatry
Oct	Malcolm Bowers Case Conference Series	"Perspectives" on Psychiatry	Scientific Foundations		Core Skills*	Department Grand Rounds
Nov
Dec
Jan			Research Literacy	Organizational Behavior
Feb
Mar
Apr		Psychodynamic Psychotherapy	Forensic Psychiatry
May
Jun			Child Psychiatry

* In this weekly class, each resident is matched with a classmate and a faculty member to practice interviewing and presentation skills using a live patient.
** In this series, faculty members demonstrate their interviewing skills with a live patient.

Jul	Advanced Psycho- pharmacology	Cognitive Behavioral Therapy	Physical Health and Psychiatry	Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (at the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute)		Resident Grand Rounds
Aug
Sep						Master Clinician Interviews**
Oct						Department Grand Rounds
Nov	Substance Abuse/Core Addiction
Dec		Couples Therapy
Jan	Translational Neuroscience	Group Therapy	Practice Based Learning and Improvement*
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun

* This course is site based. Timing will vary depending on the resident's assigned site.
** In this series, faculty members demonstrate their interviewing skills with a live patient.

Jul	Career Planning 101 (Finding a Job, CV and Cover Letters, Negotiation, Networking)				Resident Grand Rounds
Aug
Sep					Expert Clinician Interviews**
Oct
Nov	Leadership Series				Department Grand Rounds
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar			Special Topics in Psychiatry
Apr
May
Jun

** In this series, faculty members demonstrate their interviewing skills with a live patient.