Clinical curriculum

In the schedules below, one "block" is approximately four weeks and 13 blocks is one year of training.

PGY1

  • Medicine: 12 weeks (3 blocks)
  • Neurology (Outpatient and Inpatient): 8 weeks (2 blocks)
  • Emergency Medicine: 4 weeks (1 block)
  • Inpatient Psychiatry: 20 weeks (5 blocks)
  • Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry/Emergency Consults: 4 weeks (1 block)
  • Vacation: 4 weeks (1 block)
  • Total: 52 weeks (13 blocks)

PGY2

Individual Outpatient Psychotherapy (6 blocks) is required in PGY2.

  • Inpatient Psychiatry: 20-24 weeks (5-6 blocks)
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: 8 weeks (2 blocks)
  • Geriatric Psychiatry: 4-8 weeks (1-2 blocks)
  • Addiction Psychiatry: 4 weeks (1 block)
  • Consultation Liaison Psychiatry/Emergency Consults: 8 weeks (2 blocks)
  • Vacation: 4 weeks (1 block)
  • Total: 52 weeks (13 blocks)

PGY3

Individual Outpatient Psychotherapy (12 blocks) and Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) (6 blocks) required in PGY3.

  • Outpatient Psychiatry: 48 weeks (12 blocks)
  • Outpatient Community Psychiatry: 1 day per week (12 blocks)
  • Vacation: 4 weeks (1 block)
  • Total: 52 weeks (13 blocks)

PGY4

Individual Outpatient Psychotherapy (9 blocks) required in PGY4.

  • Outpatient Psychiatry: 12 weeks (3 blocks)
  • Elective: 12 weeks (3 blocks)
  • Inpatient Psychiatry: 12 weeks (3 blocks)
  • Administrative Psychiatry/Research: 4 weeks (1 block)
  • Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry/Emergency Consults: 8 weeks (2 blocks)
  • Vacation: 4 weeks (1 block)
  • Total: 52 weeks (13 blocks)

Didactic curriculum

Academic half-day

The HCA Florida Aventura Hospital Psychiatry Residency program offers protected didactic time every Tuesday morning. All Psychiatry residents are excused from clinical duties to focus on academic objectives.

Didactics topics by postgraduate year are as follows:

PGY1 and PGY2 (junior curriculum)

  • Addiction psychiatry
  • Child and adolescent psychiatry 1
  • Consultation liaison psychiatry 1
  • Cultural diversity
  • Emergency psychiatry
  • Faculty development and teaching skills training
  • Forensic psychiatry: introduction to legal and ethical concepts in psychiatry
  • Geriatric psychiatry
  • History of psychiatry
  • Introduction to DSM 5
  • Introduction to psychiatric interviewing and simulation
  • Introduction to psychopharmacology
  • Introduction to quality improvement and patient safety
  • Introduction to research
  • Neurology for psychiatry
  • Neuromodulation and TMS certification
  • Professionalism
  • Psychotherapy 1
  • Reproductive psychiatry
  • Research review

PGY3 and PGY4 (senior curriculum)

  • Administrative psychiatry and leadership skills
  • Advanced emergency psychiatry
  • Advanced psychopharmacology
  • Advanced psychotherapy
  • Advanced research mentoring
  • Board review and preparation
  • Child and adolescent psychiatry 2
  • Community psychiatry
  • Consultation liaison psychiatry 2
  • Cross cultural psychiatry
  • ECT and neuromodulation
  • Faculty development and teaching skills mentoring
  • Forensic psychiatry
  • Neurology for psychiatry
  • Psychiatric practice/advanced quality improvement and patient safety
  • Reproductive psychiatry
  • Simulation facilitation

Residents also participate in other regularly scheduled program meetings, which may include:

  • Board review
  • Departmental grand rounds
  • Departmental morbidity and mortality conference/case conferences
  • Faculty development curriculum
  • Journal club
  • PRITE review
  • Resident support group
  • Shared didactics
  • Simulation (clinical skills assessment and telehealth practice)
  • Wellness curriculum

Call schedule

The teaching goal of the on-call duties is to offer the residents a supervised experience to assertively assess and address after-hours acute behavioral emergencies. This experience aims to provide clinical independence and reasoning skills to become a competent psychiatrist. The level of assignment during the calls increases with the level of training. The call system will be monitored and evaluated yearly by the faculty and residents, and approved by the Clinical Competency Committee (CCC).

PGY1

  • Residents will take weekend calls while on Psychiatry and Neurology rotations at HCA Florida Aventura Hospital.
  • While on Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine rotations, PGY-1s will follow the department call schedule of their colleagues.
  • One or two holiday coverages per year.

PGY2

  • Residents will take weekend calls while on Psychiatry rotations at HCA Florida Aventura Hospital.
  • Night call availability by phone.
  • One or two holiday coverages per year.

PGY3

  • Residents will take weekend calls while on Psychiatry rotations at HCA Florida Aventura Hospital.
  • 4 weeks of backup call. Residents will cover during emergent situations where resident assigned to primary call is unable to attend.
  • Training calls. PGY-3's are assigned short calls to teach and mentor junior residents.
  • One or two holiday coverages per year.

PGY4

  • 4 weeks of backup call. Residents will cover during emergent situations where resident assigned to primary call is unable to attend.
  • Training calls. PGY-4's are assigned short calls to teach and supervise junior residents.

Elective possibilities

Electives will be chosen by the Resident and under the advisement of the program director.

  • Addiction psychiatry (off-site elective)
  • Administrative psychiatry
  • Child and adolescent psychiatry (off-site elective)
  • Community psychiatry (CP)
  • Consultation-liaison psychiatry (C-L)
  • Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
  • Geriatric psychiatry
  • Hospice and palliative care medicine
  • Intensive outpatient program (IOP)
  • Neurology
  • Outpatient psychiatry (OP)
  • Pain medicine
  • Pediatrics (off-site elective)
  • Research
  • Family Medicine in Psychiatry