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GWU Psychiatry Residency Brochure
Psychiatrists face a dual challenge during the coming decade. Neuroscientists are progressively elucidating neurobiological processes that underlie each psychiatric disorder. These discoveries press a psychiatrist to understand brain mechanisms of illness within each patient. On the other hand, psychiatric disorders have proven to be brain disorders that are exquisitely sensitive to the emotional and communicational environments in which patients live. The emotional stressors, shifting relationships, and cultural diversity of patients' lives press a psychiatrist to become ever more facile in using dialogue and relationships therapeutically. The GWU psychiatry curriculum trains residents to meet capably each of these challenges.
The GWU psychiatry residency program prepares psychiatric residents to practice in the urban and international environments that characterize the Washington metropolitan area. GWU psychiatry residents learn clinical approaches that embrace the complexity of patients' lives in their family, community, and cultural contexts. They learn biological and psychosocial therapies within a broad and balanced biopsychosocial curriculum. They draw from multiple clinical perspectives and therapeutic traditions to tailor treatments that address creatively each patient's concerns.
The GWU psychiatry curriculum emphasizes six domains of excellence:
• Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry
• Cross-Cultural and International Psychiatry
• Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychiatry
• Mental Health Advocacy and Public Policy
• Broad Training in the Psychotherapies
• Integration of Pharmacological and Psychosocial Therapies
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine
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GWU residents are pictured with Dr. Jay Scully,
Medical Director of the APA.
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Treating psychiatric aspects of medical illnesses is central among the priorities of our curriculum. In treating medically-ill patients, residents learn how to move back and forth among physiological, psychological, and sociocultural understandings of patients' problems, tailoring therapies that most appropriately respond to their needs. Residents learn how to utilize psychotherapy to promote resilience through the mobilization of hope, purpose, and supportive family and community relationships for patients who must live under ongoing constraints of chronic medical disorders. These competencies enable our residents to collaborate effectively with other physicians in the medical community. Didactic seminars and clinical training in consultation-liaison psychiatry occur in multiple residency years and in different inpatient and outpatient settings, at both GWU Hospital and Inova Fairfax Hospital.
Each week the Medical Illness Clinic and Case Conference brings together the GWU-Inova Fairfax Psychosomatic Medicine Fellows, PGY-III residents, medical students, and Consultation-Liaison Service faculty for case-based discussions of medically-ill outpatients. Four full-time departmental faculty hold subspecialty certification in Psychosomatic Medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
The GWU Department of Neurology has maintained a close affiliation with the Department of Psychiatry. The two departments jointly conduct a periodic Psychiatry and Neurology Case Conference. PGY-III Psychiatry residents attend the weekly Epilepsy Conference, where patients are presented multidimensionally from neurological, neurosurgical, psychiatric, neuropsychological, and neuroradiological perspectives. Neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences seminars are taught in both PGY-II and PGY-III seminars.
Cross-Cultural and International Psychiatry
The Washington metropolitan area is one of the nation's most multi-ethnic regions, with as many as 180 countries and 100 languages represented in suburban Northern Virginia and Maryland and District of Columbia public schools. Complementing its diverse patient populations, the clinical and full-time faculty of the Department of Psychiatry include over a dozen teachers, scholars, and clinicians who are internationally recognized for their expertise in cross-cultural psychiatry.
The GWU Department of Psychiatry provides the psychiatric component of mental health services at the Center for Multicultural Human Services in Falls Church, Virginia, with its psychosocial counseling programs in 28 different languages and its Program for Survivors of Torture and Severe Trauma. GWU psychiatry residents study cross-cultural psychiatry during PGY-I, PGY-II, and PGY-III seminars, learn therapies for post-traumatic disorders, treat patients in clinics for immigrants and refugees, and conduct asylum evaluations for political refugees in the GWU Human Rights Clinic. GWU psychiatry residents work in a community mental health center at Gallaudet University with patients in the deaf and hard of hearing community.
GWU psychiatry residents have unique opportunities to participate in clinical research on the role of spirituality in mental health and recovery from medical and psychiatric illnesses. GWU psychiatry faculty have collaborated regularly with the George Washington University Institute on Spirituality and Health (GWISH) in educational programs that assist physicians seeking to respond to spiritual needs of patients in their provision of health care. The GWU psychiatry residency was a 2002 recipient of the John Templeton Spirituality and Medicine Award for psychiatry residencies, which supported development of a curriculum in spirituality and psychiatry. In 2006, the GWU psychiatry residency was one of four programs nationally selected for a three-year Psychiatry Residency Curricular Award by the John Templeton Foundation. This award is providing funding and support for resident research on spirituality and mental health. This resident research program is studying the role of spirituality in countering demoralization from chronic medical and psychiatric disorders, in recovery from political torture and severe trauma, and in reduction of suicide risk.
Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychiatry
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Drs. James Griffith (left) and Jeffrey Akman (center) meet with current and former GW psychiatry residents (L to R) Drs. Lydia Sit, Jacqueline Henschke, Sarah Birmingham and Lisa Catapano at the 2007 APA Annual Meeting in San Diego.
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Since its inception, the GWU Department of Psychiatry has been nationally recognized for its focus upon children and families. Child psychiatry faculty at Children's National Medical Center all hold joint faculty appointments in our GWU department. GWU psychiatry residents have more child and adolescent training than most residents in American programs, up to four months. Their child experience also occurs early in residency during the PGY-II year, presenting residents a realistic picture of career possibilities in child and adolescent psychiatry before they need to commit themselves in the PGY-III year.
Residents learn how to conduct psychiatric treatment from a family perspective, whether the concern is a relational problem or a psychiatric or medical disorder. The GWU Department of Psychiatry houses the national offices of the American Family Therapy Academy, the nation's major organization for academic family therapy teaching and research.
The Center for Family Research (CFR), under the leadership of David Reiss, M.D., has been for three decades an international center for research on family processes and family-centered therapeutics. Dr. Reiss, the Vivian Gill Distinguished Research Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and other CFR faculty currently serve as principal investigators for multiple NIH grants studying how mental disorders and other stressful life events impact families, and how family processes modulate the severity of mental illnesses. The CFR provides psychiatry residents with an opportunity to collaborate in one of the world's most highly regarded programs of psychosocial research.
Mental Health Advocacy and Public Policy
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Michael Barnett, MD (right), his wife Laura Otolski, and Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) are shown with a copy of the National Resilience Development Act of 2003, a bill aimed at building psychological resilience in response to terrorism. A member of the full-time GW psychiatry faculty, During his PGY-IV residency year, Dr. Barnett helped write the bill as an American Psychiatry Association Freedman fellow on Rep. Kennedy's staff. |
Located a few blocks from the White House and State Department, the physical proximity of GWU to the national government, public policy institutes, and headquarters of national professional and non-governmental organizations provides unique opportunities to develop a career at the interface of psychiatry and public policy. GWU psychiatry residents can pursue a joint Psychiatry Residency/MPH Degree in Mental Health Policy. The GWU School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) is the sole school of public health based in the nation's capital. Department of Psychiatry faculty members have developed ongoing collaborations with members of the nationally recognized Center for Health Services Research and Policy in the SPHHS in multiple areas, including projects to increase screening for peripartum depression and a major initiative to prevent childhood depression by identification of children at risk and a community program for psychoeducation and family-centered interventions.
All PGY-III psychiatry residents complete a three-week intensive Health Policy rotation that combines morning lectures on health policy topics with afternoon field trips to Washington sites where policies are made, ranging from Capitol Hill to the Institute of Medicine. For the 2006-07 academic year, 4 of our 7 PGY-II residents have entered the joint psychiatry residency/M.P.H. program.
Jerrold Post, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Political Psychology, offers interested psychiatry residents an opportunity to complete a Master's Degree in Political Psychology during residency under his mentorship.
Frederick Goodwin, M.D. directs the Center for Neuroscience, Behavior and Society. Dr. Goodwin, former Director of the National Institutes of Mental Health and Research Professor of Psychiatry, leads the Center's work in analyzing how neuroscience research is conducted and the implications of this research for the lives of ordinary citizens. Addressing ethical issues in the design, conduct, and interpretation of clinical drug trials by the pharmaceutical industry and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been an important initiative.
Broad Training in the Psychotherapies
Residents have traditionally chosen our program due to our commitment to psychotherapy training. While training in psychodynamic psychotherapy has been central to the identity of the GWU residency, GWU faculty have also made important contributions to teaching and research in couple and family therapy, group therapy, and brief individual psychotherapies. Outpatient psychiatry training coordinates didactic seminars, weekly supervisions, clinical case conferences, and monitored case loads representing multiple approaches to psychotherapy, including long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, four models of individual brief psychotherapy, group therapy, and couple and family therapy. Our residents become competent in a range of approaches through which language and relationship serve as agents of healing.
The educational and research partnership between the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and the GWU Department of Psychiatry provides residents with didactic teaching and psychotherapy supervision by one of the nation's major psychoanalytic faculties. Approximately a third of the membership of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute actively teaches or supervises GWU residents and medical students. Selected residents can pursue psychoanalytic training concurrently with psychiatry residency.
Integration of Pharmacological and Psychosocial Therapies
The GWU psychiatry curriculum teaches residents how to integrate psychoeducation, psychosocial therapies, and psychopharmacology into multi-modality interventions that target specific psychiatric disorders. Didactic seminars and clinical supervisions across each year of residency teach principles of clinical psychopharmacology and multi-modality treatment. Residents are expected to learn how to use medications not only for symptom reduction in a narrow sense, but also to open new possibilities for patients to communicate effectively, to engage more fully in personal and work relationships, and to sustain a robust sense of self.
This teaching is modeled in a monthly psychopharmacology case conference conducted by Dr. Fred Goodwin. Dr. Goodwin interviews a resident and his or her patient about ongoing treatment, then directs a balanced discussion of psychopharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and lifestyle-modifying strategies to control symptoms and prevent relapse.
PGY-I Year
The primary objective for the PGY-I year is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and professional traditions necessary to practice as a physician. This is a year in which a resident's professional identity shifts from student to physician, and navigating this transition successfully is a central concern. The PGY-I year curriculum provides a foundation of knowledge and skills in internal medicine and neurology, as well a basic introduction to psychiatry.
Six residents enter the program each year as PGY-I residents. They train in internal medicine (three months), emergency medicine (one month), neurology (two months), and inpatient psychiatry in GWU Hospital (two months) and Inova Fairfax Hospital (four months). During their six months of inpatient psychiatry, residents learn to diagnose and treat the major psychiatric disorders. They gain competence in treating psychiatric emergencies and acute episodes of illnesses with the range of psychotropic medications. They learn how to conduct inpatient family meetings that engage families in preventing relapse and countering stigma. They intervene in psychiatric emergencies, such as threats of suicide or assault upon others or refusals to accept needed medical treatment.
Inova Fairfax Hospital, located in Falls Church, VA, is a 950-bed regional medical center whose Department of Psychiatry is nationally renowned for its leadership in consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. The 30-bed psychiatry inpatient service provides acute psychiatric patient treatment for a patient population with high medical co-morbidity that reflects the enormous ethnic diversity of Fairfax County and Northern Virginia. PGY-I and PGY-II residents also train in the Comprehensive Addiction Treatment Services (CATS), partial hospitalization program, and consultation-liaison service.
The GWU Inpatient Psychiatry Unit is a 20-bed acute treatment unit in the 380-bed GWU Hospital, Washington's newest and most technologically-advanced hospital. The illness acuity, high medical co-morbidity, and dual diagnoses that characterize its patients reflect its downtown Washington setting.
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Seymour Perlin, MD, former director of Residency and Training and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences with James L. Griffith, MD, Director of Psychiatry Residency Training. |
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PGY-II Year
The PGY-II residency class is expanded to seven residents each year through admission of an additional resident who has completed a PGY-I year in primary care medicine or another psychiatry residency. PGY-II residents each week attend a half-day of didactic seminars and conduct outpatient psychotherapy under supervision. Residents learn experientially about group processes through a year-long weekly T-Group.
During the PGY-II year, residents treat children and adolescents at Children's National Medical Center for two to four months. They train in addiction psychiatry in the Inova Fairfax Community Addiction Treatment Services Program (one or two months). Inpatient rotations at Virginia Hospital Center (one to three months) provide additional training in geriatric psychiatry, electroconvulsive treatment of mood disorders, and inpatient addiction treatment. An inpatient rotation at Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute focuses upon treatment of severely-ill psychiatric patients with psychotic, mood, and personality disorders requiring 30 to 90 days hospitalization.
Residents completing the PGY-II year acquire an extensive knowledge of psychiatric disorders that includes all major DSM-IV diagnostic categories for children, adolescents, and adults. They gain competence in treating with medications through an intensive year-long weekly seminar in clinical neurosciences and psychopharmacology. They learn how to conduct family meetings for hospitalized patients that emphasize psychoeducation, relapse prevention, and the countering of stigma against psychiatric illness. They learn skills for supportive group therapy with inpatients. They complete the first level of training in long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy through seminars, weekly supervision, and psychotherapy cases.
Children's National Medical Center provides training in inpatient treatment, with resident rotations on both the child and adolescent units. Residents work on interdisciplinary inpatient teams where they conduct family evaluations and family therapy. Residents can participate in outpatient evaluation and treatment of children in the Infant and Toddler Mental Health Center.
Virginia Hospital Center, the only psychiatric facility in Arlington County, focuses upon a suburban primary care patient population. Residents work in a model that simulates private psychiatric practice. The Virginia Hospital Center rotation includes training in inpatient psychiatry, electroconvulsive therapy, alcohol and substance dependence treatment, geriatric psychiatry, consultation psychiatry on the medical and surgical services, and liaison psychiatry to the medical and respiratory intensive care units.
Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute (NVMHI) is the public psychiatric hospital serving the suburban counties of Virginia. Residents at NVMHI learn to work on interdisciplinary treatment teams in the emergency assessment, acute intervention, and stabilization of acute psychoses, severe mood disorders, dissociative disorders, and other severe and chronic mental illnesses in a broadly multi-ethnic patient population.
PGY-III Year
The PGY-III year is devoted to outpatient psychiatry for 80% of each week and to consultation-liaison psychiatry for 20% of each week. Residents gain competence in long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy through a sequence of seminars, weekly supervisions with two different psychodynamic supervisors, and psychodynamic psychotherapy cases. In addition, they learn how to conduct focal psychotherapies utilizing four different models for brief psychotherapy, each with seminars, supervisions, and assigned cases:
• Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy, focusing upon treatment of anxiety and mood disorders;
• Future-Focused Brief Psychotherapy, adapting methods from narrative, solution-focused, and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapies to outpatient treatment of major psychiatric disorders;
• Motivational Enhancement Therapy for Substance Abuse, an evidence- based brief psychotherapy for outpatient treatment of alcohol and substance abuse.
• Somatic Trauma Psychotherapy, which emphasizes psychoeducation about post-traumatic symptoms and somatic cognitive-behavioral methods to attenuate, or render manageable, symptoms of post-traumatic and dissociative disorders.
Couple and family therapy, group therapy, and outpatient psychopharmacology are also taught with seminars, weekly supervisions, and assigned cases. Family therapy training consists of a weekly group supervision in which residents and two faculty supervisors interview families in live supervision. Each resident conducts a weekly group therapy with supervision throughout the year. Each resident meets weekly with a clinical psychopharmacologist who supervises medication treatments. Residents learn not only how to implement these outpatient therapies in office settings, but also how to design and implement outpatient psychiatric services that integrate these therapeutic modalities with psychoeducation and resilience-building interventions.
In addition to outpatient psychiatry training, PGY-III residents conduct consultation-liaison psychiatry training on the inpatient psychiatric consultation-liaison service in GWU Hospital, where they evaluate an average of two new consults each week. Outpatient and consultation-liaison psychiatry training are closely integrated, with residents applying outpatient brief psychotherapy and psychopharmacology skills at the bedside with medically-ill patients, and engaging medically-ill patients in the range of outpatient therapies after hospital discharge.
The PGY-III year is intensely supervised by a broad range of different supervisors representing each of the outpatient therapies. The Chief Resident monitors resident case loads to ensure that each therapeutic approach is appropriately represented. PGY-III residents typically conduct 3 - 6 hours weekly of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, 3 - 6 hours weekly of brief individual psychotherapy, 1.5 - 3 hours weekly of group therapy, 1 - 2 hours weekly of couple and family therapy, and 4 - 8 hours of psychopharmacology integrated with supportive psychotherapy in community clinics. PGY-III year, residents spend approximately 8 hours weekly in didactic seminars and clinical case conferences and 7 to 9 hours weekly with supervisors representing each of the different outpatient therapies.
For a more detailed description of the PGY III year, please click here
PGY-IV Year
Residents in the PGY-IV year focus on their special career interests, while continuing supervised outpatient therapies. The PGY-IV year is broadly flexible in order to best support each resident's career trajectory. Residents who enter a child and adolescent psychiatry residency or other approved PGY-IV fellowship can do so with all general psychiatry residency requirements completed by the end of the PGY-III year. PGY-IV residents are selected to serve as Administrative Chief Resident at GWU Medical Center, Chief Resident at Virginia Hospital Center, and Chief Resident at Inova Fairfax Hospital. Other options have included training and research fellowships and advanced clinical training with special patient populations or treatment programs. In addition to primary administrative and clinical assignments, PGY-IV residents select specific focal areas of outpatient psychiatry in which to develop special expertise.
Through an affiliation between the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) and the GWU Department of Psychiatry, selected residents can complete PGY-IV requirements with a year of full-time research at the National Institutes of Mental Health or the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse.
SUPERVISION
Our residents often point to the quality, variety, availability, and amount of clinical supervision when asked their primary reason for selecting our program for training. Our large faculty of clinical supervisors drawn from the talents of the Washington psychiatric community is the most valued resource of our department. Together with our full-time academic faculty, they provide excellent supervision of residents' clinical work with children, individual adults, couples, groups, families, social networks, and people in crisis. Few residency programs can offer a comparable program of psychotherapy supervision that balances training in both the brief focal therapies and long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy.
PGY-I residents are provided each week with clinical supervision by the medical director of the inpatient psychiatric unit, plus a faculty member from the full-time or clinical faculty who focuses on specific skill areas for inpatient psychiatry.
PGY-II residents at Children's National Medical Center, Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute, Fairfax Hospital, and Virginia Hospital Center are supervised by GWU clinical faculty on the staffs of each hospital. In addition, each resident meets each week with a psychodynamic psychotherapy supervisor who supervises their first outpatient psychotherapies.
PGY-III residents typically have seven to nine hours weekly of individual and group clinical supervisions, as detailed above. Each resident meets for an hour weekly with each of two long-term psychodynamic supervisors, a group therapy supervisor, a psychopharmacology supervisor, one or two brief individual psychotherapy supervisors, and a new patient assessment supervisor. Couple and family therapy supervision occurs as a weekly group supervision.
PGY-IV residents continue long-term psychodynamic psychotherapies with supervisors selected as appropriate for the number of cases. Other supervisions are organized as are appropriate for the clinical and administrative duties of the resident.
CURRICULUM
The residency curriculum of seminars and clinical conferences parallels residents' clinical work. Teaching occurs in small groups where intimate dialogues are possible. Seminar leaders come from both the full-time academic faculty and voluntary faculty, many of whom have distinguished national reputations. In general, seminar leaders employ multiple teaching modalities-- lectures, live interviews of patients and families, videotaped interviews, and case reviews. Depending on resident feedback and changing trends in psychiatric education, modifications are made each year.
PGY-I
Emergency Psychiatry
James Griffith, MD and Julia Frank, MD
July - August
Medical Ethics
Jeffrey Akman, MD; Catherine May, MD; and David Fram, MD
August
The Perspectives of Psychiatry
Tom Wise, M.D. and Faculty
(Weekly for two months during Inova Fairfax Rotation)
Psychopharmacology
Cynthia Gauss, M.D. and Invited Faculty
(Weekly for two months during Inova Fairfax Rotation)
Psychopathology
Alex Issac, M.D. and Invited Faculty
(Weekly for three months during Inova Fairfax Rotation)
Psychodynamic Psychiatry
Ross Silverstein, M.D. and Invited Faculty
(Weekly for four months during Inova Fairfax Rotation)
Family Assessment
Francis Andres, M.D. and Invited Faculty
(Every other week during Inova Fairfax Rotation)
Cross-Cultural Psychiatry
James Griffith, MD
(Four lectures during Inova Fairfax Psychiatry rotation)
Inova Fairfax Hospital Grand Rounds and Case Conference
Tom Wise, M.D. and Faculty
(Weekly for four months during Inova Fairfax Rotation)
Psychosomatic Medicine Case Conference
Cathy Crone, M.D. and Tom Wise, M.D.
(Weekly during for four months during Inova Fairfax Rotation)
Journal Club
Various Instructors
(Weekly for four months during Inova Fairfax Rotation)
Evidence-Based Psychiatry
Michael Sheridan, M.D.
(For three weeks during Inova Fairfax Rotation)
Psychology and Psychological Testing
Philip Andrews, PhD
(Weekly for one month during Inova Fairfax Rotation)
PGY-II
Clinical Neurosciences and Psychopharmacology
James Griffith, M.D. with Invited Faculty
Weekly during July - June
Cross-Cultural and International Psychiatry
Navid Rashid, M.D., Fred Jacobsen, M.D., Lillian Comas-Dias, Ph.D., and James Griffith, M.D. with Invited Faculty
Weekly during July - August
Forensic Psychiatry
Richard Ratner, M.D. and Glenn Miller, M.D.
Weekly during July - September
Introduction to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
John Zinner, M.D.
Weekly during December - April
Introduction to the Psychotherapies: Using Language and
Relationship Therapeutically Across Cultural Contexts
Lynne Gaby, M.D..
Weekly during January
Patient Assessment and Case Formulation, Interviewing Techniques,
and Psychodynamic Issues
Stephen Rosenblum, M.D.
Weekly during September - November
Post-Traumatic Disorders
Lynne Gaby, M.D. with Invited Faculty
Weekly during February
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Paramjit Joshi, M.D. and CNMC Faculty
Weekly during January - March
T-Group
David Levi, M.D.
Weekly (90 minutes) during July - June
Psychiatry and Neurology Case Conference (bi-monthly)
Psychiatry and Neurology Residents and Faculty Discussants
Weekly during July - December
PGY-III
Brief and Supportive Psychotherapy
James Griffith, MD
Weekly during July - September
Somatic Trauma Therapy for Posttraumatic and Dissociative Disorders
James Griffith, MD
Weekly during July - September
Clinical Psychopharmacology
Dan Lieberman, M.D.
Weekly during July - June
Ego Development and Object Relations Theory
Cynthia Stevens, M.D.
Weekly during July - August
Group Therapy
Jerrold Post, M.D. and Barrie Seidman, L.C.S.W. with Invited Faculty
Weekly during July - September
Issues in Marital and Family Therapy
Steven Wolin, M.D. and Denise Unterman, L.C.S.W. with Invited Faculty
Weekly during September - November
Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy
Andrew Molchon, M.D.
Weekly during October - December
Motivational Enhancement Therapy for Substance Abuse
Daniel Lieberman, M.D.
Weekly during October - November
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Lorenzo Norris, M.D. and Invited Faculty
Weekly during January - May
Community Psychiatric Services
Johanna Ferman, M.D. and Invited Faculty
Weekly during March - April
Conducting Psychotherapy with Spiritually, Religiously, or Ideologically-Committed Patients
James Griffith, M.D. and Invited Faculty
Weekly during March - April
Political Leadership and the Psychology of Terrorism
Jerrold Post, M.D.
Weekly during April-May (every other year)
Psychotherapy for Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders
Susan Lazar, M.D. and John Kafka, M.D.
Weekly during April - May
Research and Clinical Projects Seminar
David Reiss, M.D.
Weekly during March - May
Psychopharmacology Case Conference (monthly)
Frederick Goodwin, M.D.
July - June
Psychotherapy Case Conference (7 times per year)
Presented by PGY-III and PGY-IV Residents and Clinical Faculty
January-June
Outpatient Medical Illness Conference
Lorenzo Norris, M.D. and Invited Faculty
Weekly during September - May
Epilepsy Conference
Sam Potolicchio, M.D.
Weekly during July - June
PGY-IV
Administrative Psychiatry
Jeffrey Akman, M.D. and Invited Faculty
Weekly during July - August
Human Sexuality
Jeffrey Akman, M.D.
Weekly during July - August
Mock Boards Examinations
Michael Rankin, M.D. with Invited Faculty
April-May
(Individually scheduled with residents)
Political Leadership and the Psychology of Terrorism (every other year)
Jerrold Post, M.D.
Weekly during April-May
Recovery of Life from Trauma: The Writing of Primo Levi
Sam Goodman, MD
Weekly during January - February
Transition to Practice Seminar
James Griffith, MD and Invited Faculty
Weekly during April - May
Psychopharmacology Case Conference (monthly)
Frederick Goodwin, M.D.
July-June
Psychotherapy Case Conference (7 times per year)
Presented by PGY-III and PGY-IV Residents and Clinical Faculty
January-June
RESIDENT TEACHING
Medical student teaching is an important component of the GWU psychiatry residency. The GWU School of Medicine provides strong medical student education in the behavioral sciences, and 8% to 10% of the GWU graduating class enter psychiatry residencies each year. During each residency year, our residents provide lectures, clinical supervision, and mentoring for third and fourth year medical students rotating in our clinical services and training sites. Our senior psychiatry residents lead discussion groups with third year medical students following lectures in the medical student curriculum. Psychiatry residents can also pursue elective training with Dr. Julia Frank in advanced educational methods for teaching and supervision. |
