Geriatric psychiatry residency programs

Find a Geriatric Psychiatrist Locate a geriatric psychiatrist in your area. Career Opportunity Search career opportunities in geriatric psychiatry. Highlights Twitter Feed Latest eNews. Tweets by GeriPsyc. Residents work with psychiatric patients in the emergency department, Mental Hygiene Clinic patients and geriatric psychiatry, inpatient psychiatry and substance-abuse patients on second- through fourth-year rotations.

The Virginia Beach Community Services Board strives to be responsive to the needs of individuals with mental disabilities and their families and promote independence, recovery, behavioral health and public education surrounding the needs of individuals with mental disabilities. One PGY-3 resident is selected to rotate there the entire year. During the PGY-4 year, all residents rotate at this facility for three months, acting as senior residents on the PACT team and serving in the outpatient mental health clinic and the Pathways crisis stabilization and detoxification unit.

Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters is the only freestanding children's hospital in Virginia. With beds, it is the regional pediatric referral center for coastal Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. The hospital, a pediatric Level I trauma center, is home to the area's largest and most advanced neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, as well as the state's only acute inpatient rehabilitation unit.

Residents complete a rotation in child psychiatry at this facility during their second year. The Norfolk Community Services Board treats patients with mental health, intellectual disabilities and substance abuse needs. This program serves more than 9, Norfolk residents per year. During their third year of training, residents in this facility provide these citizens with the treatment they need.

Our PGY-4 residents rotate there throughout the year to do one month of their required Child Psychiatry experience. CHKD is expanding its mission to encompass mental health with the addition of a new mental health hospital and outpatient treatment center. Attendance is required of residents unless they are on an off-service rotation.

Journal Club The journal club exposes residents to primary research in the field of psychiatry, teaches critical appraisal skills and improves understanding of research methods. Process Group Process group is a weekly confidential forum for residents to freely discuss their experiences, resolve interpersonal issues and share the highs and lows of their week.

PGY 1 Crash Course in Basic Psychiatry : An intensive introductory overview covering essentials of diagnosis and treatment, legal and ethical issues, and administrative procedures in psychiatry, including specifics for the residency environment.

Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: The foundations of the spectrum of disorders, psychopathology, diagnosis and treatment. Effects of divorce, child abuse and suicide are also covered.

Basic Clinical Psychiatry : Establishes a sound foundation of knowledge to support and develop the development of psychiatric clinical skills. We have systematic study of the main psychiatric disorders and the foundation of the use of psychiatric medications.

Consultation and Emergency Psychiatry: The knowledge and skills necessary to diagnose, triage and treat psychiatric emergencies and psychiatric disorders encountered on the medical-surgical services.

It includes clinical case presentations and seminars and meets weekly throughout the year. Research Methods : Basic principles and applications of research methodology, statistical analysis of quantitative data, enabling residents to read, critique and apply research findings published in the literature. PGY 2 Family Therapy: Basic concepts of family therapy, utilizing lectures and videotaped family sessions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy : Theory and case studies are used to illustrate how a variety of disorders can be conceptualized and treated using this method. Psychological Testing: Psychometric principles, assessment techniques, personality testing and testing to specific psychiatric conditions, both lectures and clinical case material are used.

Psychosocial Development : Aspects of normal psychological development through the life cycle. Various theoretical perspectives are introduced through guided readings of selected literature and class discussion. Representative Course: May changes as revisions occur.

PGY 3 Dynamic Theory and Technique: Lecture format on the process of psychotherapy, evaluation, diagnostic assessment, indications, beginning phase, mid-phase and termination of treatment. Aspects of the therapeutic relationship, transference, interpretation, and other aspects of technique are discussed. Human Sexuality and Sexual Dysfunction : Normal developmental and physiological aspects of human sexuality.

Interview and sexual history taking are presented through lecture and group exercise. Various aspects of sexual dysfunction and therapeutic interventions are introduced. Advanced level courses are given in subsequent years of training. Family Therapy Clinical Seminar : Advanced seminar in the clinical setting. Select the type in the drop-down menu, options include "Residency and Fellowship", "Residency", and "Fellowship". On the right-hand side of the page, please click the box "Specialties with Additional Information".

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