Educational Program Overview
Our Educational Program has been developed based on the training objectives-based model of curriculum development, which applies a language of professional competencies as its essential design. The curriculum has been organized into statements of goals and objectives for rotations where the term goal refers to the purpose and plans of the rotation. The term objective describes what residents will be capable of doing at the end of the learning experiences.
The curriculum must contain the following educational components:
Overall Educational Goals and Objectives for the program are distributed to residents and faculty annually.
Competency-based Goals and Objectives for each assignment at each educational level
Regularly Scheduled Didactic Sessions, and Didactic Longitudinal Curriculum
Delineation of resident responsibilities for patient care, progressive responsibility for patient management, and supervision of residents over the continuum of the program.
Educational Program Structure
Rotation Curriculum
See our Rotations Diagram.
Longitudinal Curriculum
In addition to each resident’s continuity clinic sessions in the Psychiatry Outpatient Center, PHP and other ambulatory settings, certain elements of medical education lend themselves more to a longitudinal format, rather than a block experience.
Among the experiences taught in a longitudinal manner are:
Didactic Conferences:
In-house calls and at home calls
Elective time and research opportunities
Didactic Activities
Daily Morning Report
Morning Rounds
Grand Rounds
Monday’s Psychiatry Program Didactic Activities
Additional protected didactic time during outside rotations if needed
Monthly Journal Club
Monthly Board Review Conferences
Interdisciplinary Conferences
Pharmacology update Conferences
M&M Conference, tumor Board
House Calls Service
Practice management seminars
Specialist lectures: Guest lecturers present topics in their specialty
Residency research support
Resident support groups, individual supervision
Ethics conference
Residents will be exposed to a child and adolescent psychiatry experience of 2 months during PGY-2 at Miami Children’s Hospital under the direction of certified child and adolescent psychiatrists. Dr. Americo Padilla, MD, Dr. Jorge Hernandez, MD and Dr. Elda Lopez, MD are board certified in this specialty and has years of experience in this field. The resident will have responsibility for the evaluation and management of both children and adolescents with a range of psychiatric disorders.
Consultation-liaison experience
A consultation-liaison experience shall be provided. There shall be experience involving patients on medical-surgical services during the weekday, and some of this experience will be outpatient based.
Emergency psychiatry
Emergency Psychiatry Services will be available in our program. Residents shall, under the direction of qualified faculty, participate in the evaluation, triage and management of patients presenting to the psychiatric emergency service. This experience must include training in the management of and contact with patients who are suicidal and who present the threat of physical violence. During the rotation, residents shall have training in forensic issues of relevance to emergency psychiatry.
Geriatric Psychiatry
Residents will receive instruction, evaluation, supervision and training in geriatric psychiatry. they will be exposed to a wide spectrum of patients with a vast variety and volume of psychiatric disorders, in which residents have primary responsibility for diagnosis and treatment.
Substance Abuse
We designed educational experiences with patients with substance abuse problems. Residents must have experience with detoxification and management as well as an understanding of community resources.
We designed educational experiences with patients with substance abuse problems. Residents must have experience with detoxification and management as well as an understanding of community resources.
Forensic Psychiatry
Residents shall have an experience dealing with patients with forensic psychiatric issues through a rotation in PGY-3 and through the longitudinal curriculum. Civil commitment during on-call responsibilities will not be considered a sufficient experience to fulfill this requirement.
Residents shall have an experience dealing with patients with forensic psychiatric issues through a rotation in PGY-3 and through the longitudinal curriculum. Civil commitment during on-call responsibilities will not be considered a sufficient experience to fulfill this requirement.
The curriculum has included experience with couples, families and groups.
Residents shall be in some settings where psychological and neuropsychological testing is used. The experience shall be with their patients and there must be opportunities for residents to gain a basic understanding of common psychological and neuropsychological tests.
Practice Management
Clinical training includes interaction with managed care organizations, medical ethics and practice management.
Clinical training includes interaction with managed care organizations, medical ethics and practice management.
Residents shall interact with other mental health professionals.
The residents will have interaction with psychologists, social workers, and psychiatric nurses.
