 |
MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE
Residents must demonstrate knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical and cognitive (e.g. epidemiological and social-behavioral) sciences and the application of this knowledge to patient care.
- • The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of the major psychiatric disorders based on the scientific literature and standards of practice.
• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of psychotropic medications, including the antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, mood-stabilizers, hypnotics, and stimulants.
• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of substances of abuse.
• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of human growth and development, including normal biological, cognitive, and psychosexual development.
• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of emergency psychiatry including:
- a) Suicide
b) Crisis interventions
c) Differential diagnosis in emergency situations
d) Treatment methods in emergency situations homicide, rape,
and other violent behavior
- • The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of behavioral science and social psychiatry.
• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of psychosocial therapies including:
- • All forms of psychotherapies (group, individual, family, behavioral theory and practice
• Treatments of psychosexual dysfunctions
• Hypnosis
• Doctor-patient relationship
- • The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of somatic treatment methods including:
• Pharmacotherapy
• ECT
• Biofeedback.
• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of patient evaluation and treatment selection including:
• Laboratory methods used in psychiatry
• Mental status examination
• Diagnostic interviewing
• Treatment comparison and selection
• Psychological testing
• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of consultation-liaison
psychiatry.
• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge of consultation-liaison
psychiatry.
• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge in forensic psychiatry
• The resident shall demonstrate knowledge in administrative psychiatry
and in systems of health care delivery. The resident shall demonstrate
knowledge in ethics
|
|
Web site design: Biomedical Communications
Last updated: Sunday, October 30, 2005
|
450 Clarkson Ave / Brooklyn, NY 11203
BOX 1203 / Tel: 718 270 2022
|
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY
|
|
|
|