Program Didactics
Our educational programs are diligent in providing didactic experiences for our residents. Didactics occur one-half day each week for the duration of the one year fellowship program. Planned seminars and didactic topics covered during this time include:
| Introduction to the geriatric psychiatry fellowship | Psychotherapy in late life |
| Orientation to documentation (electronic health record) | Long term care psychiatry |
| Library skills/evidence based medicine review | Legal, ethical and policy issues in late life mental health |
| Genetics of late life mental illness | Cross cultural psychiatry and the older adult |
| Neuropathology and neurophysiology of aging | Sexuality in late life |
| The psychiatric interview with older adults including mental status examination | Caregiving issues |
| Laboratory assessment | Lesbian/Gay/Sexual issues |
| Neuropsychology of aging | Community services |
| Common psychiatric disorders in late life | Elder abuse |
| Psychopharmacology in older adults | Geriatric Psychiatry Journal Club |
| Electroconvulsive therapy | Grand Rounds |
| Neuroradiology seminar | Case presentations |
