Thresholds Community Mental Health Rotation Goals & Objectives

Goals:

1. To provide PGY II residents with an appropriate experience in community mental health.

2. To expose PGY II residents to the available community resources for patients with chronic mental illnesses.

3. To further develop a knowledge base of psychopharmacologic intervention for patients with chronic mental illnesses in the community.

Objectives

1. To learn how to conduct psychiatric evaluations in an outpatient community setting.
2. To understand and work with a full range of levels of care that exist to serve the chronically mentally ill including; homeless outreach progams, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Teams, psychosocial rehabilitation programs such as Thresholds, jail programs, housing options, vocational rehabilitation, among others.
3. To develop the ability to interact with different providers of care to optimize a treatment plan for patients with chronic mental illnesses.
4. To understand the principles of maintenance and stabilization of antipsychotic medications, including long active (depot) forms.

Rotations and Clinics Goals and Objectives

• CCC Schizophrenia Clinic
• C/L
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• ER
• Forensic Experience
• General Adult Psychiatry
• Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic
• Memory Center
• Mood Clinic
• Optional PGY-1 Pediatric Medicine
• Optional PGY-1 Pediatric Neurology
• PGY-1 Inpatient Rotation
• PGY-1 Medicine MacNeal
• PGY-1 Neurology MacNeal
• PGY-2 Inpatient Rotation
• PGY-2 Outpatient Tinely Park
• PGY-3 Chemical Dependency MacNeal
• PGY-3 Geriatric Rotation MacNeal
• PGY-3 Inpatient MacNeal
• Psychotherapy
• SCRS Medication Clinic

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