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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

Dr. Scharf teaching

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.