PGY-3 Didactics Curriculum (2024-2025)

Week #1:    7/3/24                                     

Time

Course

Faculty

2:00-3:00 pm

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 

Patricia Osborne

3:00—4:00 pm

Introductory Psychopharmacology

Dr. Yunbo Nie

 

Week #2:    7/10/24

Time

Course

Faculty

 

1:00-2:00 pm

Anxiety in the outpatient setting

 

Daniel Tieman

 

2:00-3:00 pm

Primary and Secondary Defensive Processes in Therapy 

Primary and Secondary Defensive Processes in Therapy

Jimmy Master 

 

3:00-4:00 pm 

Advanced Psychopharmacology of Anxiety Disorders 

Courtney Liebling

 

 

Week #3:    7/17/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Long-Acting Injectable Anti-

Psychotic Medications

Eduardo Constantino

2:00-3:00 pm

The Influence of the Environment and Trauma on Personality Development

Jimmy Master 

3:00-4:00 pm

CBT: Assessment and Session 1

Patricia Osborne 

 

Week #4:    7/24/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

CBT: Early Sessions and 

Dr. Judith Beck Videos 

Patricia Osborne

2:00-3:00 pm

Motivational Interviewing

Courtney O’Brien

3:00-4:00 pm

Outpatient Community 

Resources and Social Work 

Intervention

Virginia Gunther/Farahdia Anglade

4:00-5:00 pm

PRITE Review

Chiefs

 

Week #5:    7/31/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Use of newer antipsychotic medications

Eduardo Constantino

2:00-3:00 pm

                A Developmental Understanding of Characterological Pathology                

Jimmy Master

3:00-4:00 pm

CBT: Automatic Thoughts I 

and Dr. Judith Beck Videos

Patricia Osborne

4: 00-5:00 pm

PRITE Review

Chiefs

5-5:30 pmFeedback sessionDr. DeLucia

 

Week #6:    8/7/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

CBT: Automatic Thoughts II and Behavioral Activation

Patricia Osborne

2:00-3:00 pm

Understanding and Working with Cluster A Personality Types McWilliams

Ch 9 & 10

Jimmy Master 

3:00-4:00 pm

Long term medication side 

effects of antipsychotic 

medications  

Geoffrey Russell  

4:00-5:00 pm

PRITE Review

Chiefs

 

Week #7:    8/14/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Sleep Disorders Overview

Philip Pecoraro

2:00-3:00 pm

Understanding and Working with Cluster A Personality Types McWilliams

Ch 9 & 10

Jimmy Master 

3:00-4:00 pm

Cultural Issues in Psychiatry:

Impact of Racism on Mental Health 

Wilfred Farquharson

4:00-5:00 pm

PRITE Review

Chiefs  

 

 

Week #8:    8/21/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

CBT: Working with Core Beliefs 

Patricia Osborne

2:00-3:00 pm

Stahl Casebook

Eduardo Constantino

3:00-4:00 pm

Understanding and Working with Cluster B Personality Types McWilliams

Ch 4, 7, 8, & 14

Jimmy Master 

4:00-5:00 pm

PRITE Review

Chiefs

 

Week #9:    8/28/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Pharmacotherapy of Insomnia

Eduardo Constantino

2:00-3:00  pm

QI Research and Implementation

Leslie Marino

3:00-4:00 pm

CBT for Insomnia

Courtney O’Brien 

4:00-5:00 pm

PRITE Review

Chiefs

5-5:30 pmFeedback sessionDr. DeLucia

 

 

Week #10:    9/4/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Bipolar Disorders in the 

Outpatient Setting

Matthew Sherman

2:00-3:00 pm

Understanding and Working with Cluster B Personality Types McWilliams

Ch 4, 7, 8, & 14

Jimmy Master 

3:00-4:00 pm

CBT for Mood/Anxiety Disorders

Dr. Patricia Osborne

4:00-5:00 pm

PRITE Review

Chiefs

 

Week #11:  9/12/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

DBT I

Brittain Mahaffey

2:00-3:00 pm

Psychopharmacology Series: Lectures in Seminars: Drug Interaction 

PGY-4 

3:00-4:00 pm

Understanding and Working with Cluster B Personality Types McWilliams

Ch 4, 7, 8, & 14

Jimmy Master 

4:00-5:00 pm

PRITE Review

Chiefs

 

Week #12-  9/18/24 - WELLNESS DAY

Week #13:    9/25/24 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

PGY-4 Seminar: Suicidal Behavior and Psychopharmacology

PGY-4

2:00-3:00 pm

Feedback session  

Dr. Delucia 

3:00-4:00 pm

Motivational Interviewing

Courtney O’Brien

4:00-5:00PM

PRITE Review

Chiefs

 

Week #14:    10/2/24 - PRITE Exam - No lectures

 

Week #15:    10/9/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Cultural issues in Psychiatry:

Justice Involved Culture and Risk Assessments

Ryan Montes

 

2:00-3:00 pm

CBT for PTSD

Meagan Ryan (Virtual)

3:00-4:00 pm

CBT: Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for Trauma Demonstration and Video

Patricia Osborne  

 

 

Week #16:    10/16/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Psychopharmacology: PTSD Treatment 

PGY-4

2:00-3:00 pm

Psychopharmacology: Child/Adolescent Anxiolytic 

PGY-4

3:00-4:00 pm

Psychodynamic Treatment of Trauma Handouts

 

Jimmy Master

 

 

Week #17:   10/23/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pmTreatment of ADHDPecoraro

2:00-3:00 pm

Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Treating ADHD

Gabrielle Carlson 

3:00-4:00 pm

CBT for ADHD

Cynthia Cervoni

 

 

Week #18:    10/30/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Integrating Medications & CBT

For Individuals with Psychosis

 

 P. Osborne & 

J. Weinstein

2:00-4:00 pm         CBT for OCD

Britian Mahaffey

 

4-4:30 pmFeedback sessionDr. DeLucia

 

 

Week #19:    11/6/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Depression and Anxiety: 

A Developmental/Psychodynamic Perspective McWilliams

Ch 11

Jimmy Master 

2:00-3:00 pm

Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Treating Anxiety Disorders in Youth

 Maged Soliman

3:00-4:00 pm

Motivational Interviewing

Courtney O’Brien 

 

 

Week #20:    11/13/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Cultural Issues in Psychiatry:

Transgender Mental Health and Gender Affirming Medical Interventions

Veronica Tapia

2:00-3:00 pm

CBT: Conceptualization and Treatment Plans for Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Patricia Osborne

3:00-4:00 pm

Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Treating Depressive Disorders in Youth

Perinatal Psychiatry

Saurabh Gupta

 

Week #21:    11/20/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Advanced Antipsychotic Psychopharmacology Strategy

Jodi Weinstein

2:00-3:00 pm

CBT for Psychosis and Demonstration of individual/group CBT

Patricia Osborne

3:00-4:00 pm

Cultural Issues in Psychiatry:

Marginalized Youth, Intersectionality and Advocacy  

 

Wilfred Farquharson/

Daniel Tieman

 

 

 

4-4:30 pmFeedback sessionDr. DeLucia

 

 

Week #22:    11/28/24 - Thanksgiving Week - No lectures 

Week #23:    12/4/24

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Perinatal Psychiatry

Melissa Rossi

2:00-3:00 pm       

Understanding and Working with Cluster C Personality Types McWilliams

Ch 13

Jimmy Master

3:00-4:00 pmMotivational InterviewingCourtney Obrien

 

Week #24:    12/11/24

 

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm       

Understanding and Working with Cluster C Personality Types McWilliams

Ch 13

Jimmy Master

2:00-3:00 pm

Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Psychiatry

Meghan Malhotra

3:00-4:00 pm

Perinatal Psychiatry

Melissa Rossi

 

Week #25:    12/18/24 - WELLNESS AFTERNOON

 

Week #26:    12/25/24 -Holiday- No Lectures

Week #27:    1/1/25- New Years Day- Holiday 

Week # 28- 1/8/25

 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Addiction Psychiatry: management of comorbid conditions

Richard Rosenthal

2-3:00 pm

Family Therapy DidacticSpera

3:00-4:00 pm

Cultural Issues in Psychiatry:

Transgender Affirmative CBT: Supporting the Mental Health of LGBTQ

Wilfred Farquharson

4-4:30 pmFeedback sessionDr. DeLucia

 

Week #29:   1/15/25

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Addiction Psychiatry: management of comorbid conditions

Richard Rosenthal

2:00-3:00 pm

Psychodynamic didactics on Depressive & Manic personalities. - Part 1

Adria Gerber (Virtual)

 

 

3:00-4:00 pm

Psychodynamic didactics on Depressive & Manic personalities. - Part 2

 

Adria Gerber (Virtual)

 

 

 

  

 

Week #30:    1/22/25

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Advanced Psychopharmacology of SUDs

Richard Rosenthal

2:00-3:00 pm

CBT for Substance Use

Disorders

Patricia Osborne 

3:00-4:00 pm

Cultural Issues in Psychiatry:

Substance use disorders in LGBTQ and Racial Minorities

Veronica Tapia

 

Week #31:    1/29/25

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Outpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: Treating Autism Spectrum Disorders

Amanda Gorecki

2-3:00 pmDisability throughout the lifespanMaria Spera

3:00-4:00 pm

CBT for Autism Spectrum Disorders

Debra Reicher and Kimberly James 

 

 

Week #33:    2/5/25

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-3:00 pm

 

Eating Disorders

 

Marianne Tateosian

3:00-4:00 pm

CBT for Eating Disorders 

Genna Hymowitz

4-4:30 pmFeedback sessionDr. DeLucia

 

Week #34:   2/12/25

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Outpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: Bipolar Spectrum Disorders

Gabrielle Carlson 

NEED to CANCEL

2:00-4:00 pm       

The Psychodynamics of Addictions.

 

Monica Thomas 

 

Week #35:    2/19/25

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Advanced Psychopharmacology of Lithium

Mark Lerman CANCELLED 

2:00-3:00 pm

Integrating Medications and CBT for Individuals with Psychosis

Jodi Weinstein

3:00-4:00 pm

Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Intersectionality of LGBTQ+ and Racially Marginalized Identities

Wilfred Farquharson/A. Gonzalez

 

 

Week #36:    2/26/25

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Treatments

Philip Pecoraro

2:00-3:00 pm

Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (STPP & ISTDP) Handouts

 

Richard Rosenthal 

3:00-4:00 pm

CBT: Troubleshooting Common Challenges

Patricia Osborne

 

Week #37:    3/5/24   

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Topics in Geriatric Psychiatry

Christopher Christodoulou, 

(N.Palekar)

2:00-3:00 pm

Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) Handouts

Jimmy Master 

 

3:00-4:00 pm

CBT

Dr. Osborne

 

Week #38:    3/12/25

Time

Course

Faculty

1-2 pm  TO BE AT PPC 1-5 PM

Public Psychiatry

Sherman

2-3 pm

Public Psychiatry

Sherman

3-4 pm

Public Psychiatry

Sherman

4-5 pm

Public Psychiatry

Sherman

 

Week #39:    3/19/25 - WELLNESS DAY

Week #40:    3/26/25

Time

Course

Faculty

 

1:00-2:00 pm       

 

The art of delivering feedback to families

Debra Reicher  CANCELLED

2:00-3:00 pm       

 

                

Psychopharmacology in Medically Complex Patients 

PGY-4

3:00-4:00 pm

How a psychiatrist integrates medications and CBT in Family Medicine and outpatient care

 Mark Lerman 

4-4:30 pmFeedback sessionDr. DeLucia

 

Week #41:    4/2/25

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

CBT

Patricia Osborne 

2:00-3:00 pm

Advanced Psychiatric Management in the Cardiovascular Patient

Walter Piddoubny

3:00-4:00 pm

Motivational Interviewing 

Courtney O’Brien 

 

Week #42:    4/9/25

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm 

Psychopharmacological Approach to patients with medical co-morbidities

Amanda Sukhu

2:00-3:00 pm

The Psychodynamics of Psychopharmacology 

Tom Aronson

3:00-4:00pm

Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy 

Mark Lerman VIRTUAL 

 

Week #43:   4/16/25

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Women’s Issues in Outpatient Psychiatry: I

Courtney Liebling

2:00-3:00 pm

CBT Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy Part II

Mark Lerman/Patricia Osborne

3:00-4:00 pm

Cultural Issues in Psychiatry:

Culture, Trauma, and Dissociation: Is Dissociation Always Pathological?

Veronica Tapia/Maria Spera 

4-4:30 pmFeedback sessionDr. DeLucia

 

 

Week #44:    4/23/25

 

 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-200 pm

CBT 

Patricia Osborne

2:00-3:00 pm

Topics in Geriatric Psychiatry

Nikhil Palekar 

3:00-4:00 pm       

 

 

 

                

PGY-4 Planning for SB ONLY 

Spring

 

Week #45:    4/30/25 

 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Cultural Issues in Psychiatry:

Research Methods in Cultural Psychiatry 

James Swain 

2:00 - 3:00 pm

CBT

Osborne

3:00-4:00 pm

Grand Round Preparation 

Benjamin Delucia 

 

Week # 46: 5/7/25

 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 PM

Topics in Geriatric Psychiatry

 

Nikhil Palekar

2:00-3:00 pm

Grand Rounds Preparation 

Benjamin DeLucia

3:00-4:00 pm

Motivational Interviewing

Courtney O’Brien 

 

 

Week #47:    5/14/25

Time

Course

Faculty

100-2:00 pm

Women’s Issues in Outpatient Psychiatry: II

 Courtney Liebling 

2:00-3:00 pm

CBT

Patricia Osborne

3:00-4:00 pm

Cultural Issues in Psychiatry:

Addressing Oppression from a Trauma Lens 

Kimberly Alba

 

Week #48: 5/21/25               (APA week)

 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Outpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: Bipolar Spectrum disorders

 

Gabrielle Carlson 

 

2:00-3:00pm 

 

Advanced Psychopharmacology of Lithium

 

Mark Lerman 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week #49:    5/28/25

 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

CBT for Chronic Pain

Cynthia Cervoni

2:00-3:00 pm

Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, and Treatments

Fred Friedberg 

3:00-4:00 pm

TMS/NeuromodulationDr. Manu

 

 

Week # 50: 6/4/25 - Resident Retreat

Week #51:  6/11/25

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

MDMA in PTSD 

Constantine Ioannou

2:00-3:00 PM

Motivational Interviewing 

Courtney O’Brien

3:00-4:00 pm

Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Reflections 

Wilfred Farquharson/Dodie Gillett

 

Week # 52: 6/18/25-

 

Time

Course

Faculty

1:00-2:00 pm

Psiloycbin in the Terminal Patient

Constantine Ioannou

2:00-4:00 pm

One Case, Two Perspectives: Comparisons & Integration of CBT & Psychodynamic 

Techniques 

Patricia Osborne 

 

Week # 53- Resident Handoff