Selected faculty discuss the patient and treatment issues. In the final year of residency training, PGY 4 residents attend one a week. The topics change throughout the year. Some of the issues addressed are managed care, private practice staffing and administration. This seminar is designed to familiarize residents with the history of psychiatry theory by reviewing and discussing classic papers.
Academic lectures are regularly schedules nine months of the year, three times a month.
Speakers brought in from all over the country as well as our own senior faculty, present in their areas of expertise. Through a gracious donation from the Cooper family, a lectureship has been established to provide funding to bring in outstanding leaders in psychiatry and neurology research to speak about treads, policy and ethics. There is a good deal of research done in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The department is second in the medical school as far as getting research grant dollars. Residents have opportunities in the PG 3 and PG 4 years to get involved with specific mentors if there are areas that interest them.