Weekly Didactic mandate attendance. Accepting applications for July, 2000. Advanced training in consultation-liaison to psychiatrists who have completed residency. Fellows choose from numerous clinical and research opportunities in transplantation, medical ethics, med-psych unit, pain management, rehab medicine, oncology, infertility, HIV Clinic, and more. Individual weekly supervisors are provided for research, psychotherapy, liaison activity, and teaching skills.
Fellows teach medical students and psychiatry residents.
Rotations for the one year fellowship extend to these three hospitals. The program has a modest research focus. Dr. Victor Vieweg, Director of Geriatric Psychiatry, has a background in geriatric psychiatry, general psychiatry, internal medicine, and cardiology and offers mentoring in research design, statistics, database management, computer application, and manuscript preparation. Provide training at the PGY-5 level of residency in assessment and care of chronic mental illness, emphasizing systematic assessment, biological therapies including typical and atypical antipsychotic medication and, leadership of case management teams. Provide knowledge and training in the neurobiology of schizophrenia.