Didactics

Fellows participate in a bootcamp on core topics for the first quarter of the year using the APA textbook on Consultation Liaison Psychiatry and clinical vignettes. The rest of the year’s didactics include advanced topic series of case-based discussions with topic experts and continued review of the textbook. This curriculum is designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and optimal preparation for the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry board exam. Courses include:

General Principles in Evaluation and Management

• Ethical issues
• Legal issues
• Psychiatric assessment and consultation
• Psychological responses to illness

Symptoms and Disorders

• Aggression and violence
• Anxiety disorders
• Deception syndromes: factitious disorders and malingering
• Delirium
• Dementia
• Depression
• Eating disorders
• Psychosis, mania and catatonia
• Sexual dysfunction
• Sleep disorders
• Somatization and somatoform disorders
• Substance-related disorders
• Suicidality

Specialty and Subspecialty Components

• Chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia syndromes
• Dermatology
• Endocrine and metabolic disorders
• Gastrointestinal disorders
• Heart disease
• Hematology
• HIV/AIDS
• Infectious diseases
• Lung disease
• Medical toxicology
• Neurology and neurosurgery
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Oncology
• Organ transplantation
• Pain
• Pediatrics
• Physical medicine and rehabilitation
• Renal disease
• Rheumatology
• Surgery

Treatment

• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Palliative care
• Psychopharmacology
• Psychotherapy