Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Year 2 (Post-graduate Year V/VI)
The second Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) year is devoted to outpatient and community psychiatry as well as to research and other academic pursuits.
Every CAP resident spends half of his or her outpatient activities at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in such sub-specialty clinics as Neuropsychiatry, Disruptive Behavior Disorders, and Childhood Anxiety and Depression. For the remaining half of the CAP resident's outpatient activities, 6 residents will be assigned to Payne Whitney Manhattan and 6 to Payne Whitney Westchester. At both of these sites, the second year residents participate in new evaluations and follow a caseload of patients in psychopharmacology clinic and a variety of psychotherapeutic treatment modalities. Ongoing supervision in an array of treatment modalities and case conferences accompany each rotation. In addition, each second year resident will have experience at a normal nursery.
Twenty-five percent of time in the CAP second year is protected for the pursuit of selective research or scholarly activity with faculty mentorship. This research time has been designed to be as flexible as possible to allow residents ample opportunity to engage in their chosen selective. Research selectives with faculty members engaged in investigative activity are available through the New York State Psychiatric Instititute, Payne Whitney Manhattan, Payne Whitney Westchester, the Sackler Institutes for Developmental Psychobiology at Cornell and Columbia, and the various developmental neurobiology programs in both Departments.
The second year didactic curriculum begins in the summer with an introduction to research methods, and modules on adolescent substance abuse and forensic child psychiatry. After labor day, didactics courses include Empirically Supported Therapies, Cultturally Diverse and Special Populations, Reading Seminars with seniour faculty and a Monthly Journal Club. As in the first year, Child Psychiatry Grand Rounds is scheduled as part of the Didactic Day.
In both the first and second years, CAP residents have the opportunity to develop teaching skills by participating in the child and adolescent psychiatric training of medical students, general psychiatry residents and residents in pediatrics.
