Didactics

Fellows participate in two one-hour structured lectures per week, which include review of required textbook reading material and discussion of review questions. This coursework is designed to insure 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