Didactics

Throughout the residency program, residents have protected time set aside half a day per week for didactics. In Seattle, PGY-1 and PGY-2 residents participate in the same didactics as the residents in the Seattle and Spokane Tracks. These include "survival" didactics (e.g. The Psychiatric Interview, Surviving Call, Working with an Inpatient Team, Introduction to Psychopharmacology); the diagnosis and treatment of the major psychiatric disorders; lectures covering systems issues (e.g. Working with Interpreters, Involuntary Treatment); and the core psychotherapy didactics and seminars (Introduction to Psychotherapy, Learning Theory, Psychodynamic Theory, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy). For a more detailed description of the didactics in Seattle, please see http://psychres.washington.edu/didactics/didactics.asp.

In Boise, PGY-3 and PGY-4 residents will have a two-year cycle of didactics, so that all six residents can have didactics together in a small, interactive seminar format. The didactics cycle will include the same topics covered in PGY-3 and PGY-4 didactics in Seattle. There will be a special emphasis on didactics related to outpatient psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, and the medicine-psychiatry interface. Didactics will be taught by Boise faculty, as well as by guest lecturers from the University of Washington. Some joint didactics with Family Medicine residents will be available, in addition to monthly Psychiatry Grand Rounds.