| Department of Psychiatry |
Goals and Objectives: Emergency Psychiatry
Goals:
- To provide PGY II residents an appropriate experience in emergency psychiatry
- To expose PGY II residents to crisis intervention.
- To help PGY II residents develop a basic knowledge of acute psychopharmacologic intervention.
- To learn to interact with the ER doctors and staff to provide optimum care for psychiatric patients in the ER.
Objectives:
- To learn about the process of involuntary treatment.
- To learn appropriate assessment of suicidal patients.
- To learn how to conduct emergency psychiatric evaluations.
- To develop knowledge of psychotropic medications in acute psychiatric emergencies.
- To learn to differentiate psychiatric emergencies from medical/surgical emergencies with psychiatric symptoms.
- To learn about community service/resources for referral purposes.
Rotations and Clinics Goals and Objectives
PGY-1
Medicine MacNeal
PGY-1
Neurology MacNeal
PGY-1
Pediatric Medicine (optional)
PGY-1
Pediatric Neurology (optional)
PGY-1
Inpatient Psychiatry
PGY-1
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
ER
PGY-2
Inpatient Psychiatry
PGY-2
Inpatient Psychiatry MacNeal
PGY-2
Geriatric Psychiatry MacNeal
PGY-1
& 3 Chemical Dependency MacNeal
C/L
Clinics:
General
Adult
Anxiety Disorders
Geriatric
Memory
Mood
Disorders
CCC
(Schizophenia)
SCRS
Personality Disorders
Psychotherapy
Forensic
Psychiatry
