The program has a full day protected for didactics on Wednesdays and the didactics are organized starting from introductory classes in different areas of psychiatry for junior residents and gradually building up to advanced classes as training advances.

The goal of didactics is to ensure that all residents have a solid academic foundation and knowledge which can be applied to and also enriched by the clinical cases they see and manage on their rotations.

The following are some of the didactics by year of training though not exhaustive in any way.

• PGY1: Introduction to interview techniques, ethics and confidentiality, emergency psychiatry and crisis intervention, clinical psychiatry/psychopathology, psychopharmacology, legal regulation of psychiatry, introduction to forensic psychiatry, introduction to cognitive-behavioral, supportive and psychodynamic psychotherapies, psychological testing, neurology/neuropsychiatry.

• PGY2: Interview techniques and skills, psychopharmacology, CBT, ECT and psychodynamic psychotherapy, geriatric psychiatry, emergency psychiatry, crisis prevention and intervention, consultation and liaison, neuroscience, substance abuse disorders, community psychiatry and public psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, neurological disorders, quality improvement, psychiatry and ethics, journal club, case presentation, orientation to outpatient psychiatry.

• PGY3: Outpatient evaluation and management, advanced psychopharmacology, CBT, short-term psychotherapy and personality theories, family therapy, advanced interview techniques and formulation, crisis prevention and intervention, forensic psychiatry, substance abuse in differential settings, ethics, neuroimaging, health care economics, child psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, quality improvement, journal club, case presentation.  Residents are given the opportunity to be exposed to TMS in the outpatient setting.

• PGY4: Advanced psychopharmacology, career planning, interpersonal psychotherapy and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychiatry and medicine, private practices and issues, crisis prevention and intervention, advanced legal and ethical issues, epidemiology, health care delivery, forensic psychiatry, interviewing skills and mock oral boards, board review, neuropsychiatry, quality improvement, journal club, case presentation.

Residents in all years participate in the resident’s monthly meeting with the Program Director and Associate Program Director. In addition, residents also meet with the Chief and Co-Chief Resident every month to discuss issues related to their training.