As a leader of a multidisciplinary treatment team, the resident will learn to provide specialized assessment, standard therapies, experimental therapeutics, and rehabilitation for adults with serious and persistent mental illness. Here the resident will carry a full case load under the direct supervision of a GNPU Attending Psychiatrist, in the evaluation and treatment of patients with suspected or demonstrated neuropathology, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease, epilepsy, and complex affective disorders. Patients with general psychiatric disorders are also prominently represented. The neuropsychiatry resident spends about 8 weeks at the Canandaigua Veterans Affairs Hospital. This hospital provides chronic care to psychiatric and neuropsychiatric patients.
Teaching is provided by general neurologists and neuropsychiatrists.
Duties center around providing neurological consultative services to inpatients, caring for a ward of chronically ill neuropsychiatry patients, and participating in a general neurology clinic for veterans a half day per week. The neurology resident also spends another 12 weeks on the inpatient service at Strong Memorial Hospital. One month is earmarked for a Neurology elective. Each year the PCS provides over 600 consultations to the acute medical and surgical services of Strong Memorial Hospital. We see this as a major integrative experience for the combined program resident.