Didactics
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Lecture series
The weekly didactic series topics are wide-ranging and pertinent to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, and are presented by a variety of faculty members from Psychiatry and other University of Rochester Medicine specialties. Topics could include but are not limited to:
- The process of consultations
- Defenses & Anxiety
- Models of consultation and collaborative care models
- Strategizing history and engaging patients
- Personality
- Social factors influencing psychiatric presentations
- Transplant psychiatry
- Delirium
- Neuropsychological testing
- Sleep disorders
- Epilepsy
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Hyperkinetic and Hypokinetic movement disorders
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation
- Somatic Symptom disorders
- Somatoform disorders in children and adolescents
- Work-life balance and provider burnout
- Diversity Equity and Inclusion
- Deaf culture, communication, and working with interpreters
- Psycho-Oncology
- Eating Disorders
- Addictions
- Ethics in Medicine and Life
- Cardiac transplant psychiatry
- Neurocognitive Syndromes
- Advanced topics in Delirium
- Autoimmune Encephalitis
- Psychiatry and Endocrine disorders
- Catatonia
- Decisional Capacity Assessment
- Rehabilitation Psychology
- Interventional Psychiatry

Lectures to be given by the Fellow
Fellows are expected to devise and deliver at least 3 lectures to junior psychiatry residents or other trainees on topics of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Supervision
In addition to rotation-specific (bedside) supervision, Fellows will receive an hour of 1:1 supervision per week with the Program Director. The supervision will focus on rotation-specific topics and pertinent literature, collaboration and supervision skills, practice improvement, development of professional identity, and work-life balance.
Journal Club
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellows are expected to attend ACLP virtual Journal Club. This monthly meeting will cover readings pertinent to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Psychiatry Grand Rounds
These weekly presentations occur from September through May. During the summer (July - August), the weekly Grand Rounds is replaced by the weekly Brown Bag series, which focuses on matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion.