Conferences & Didactics
Required
- Psychosomatic Medicine Seminar
- Weekly seminar that at times is combined with the weekly Geriatric psychiatry seminar when addressing topics common to both Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine (e.g. delirium, dementia, stroke, movement disorders).
- Joint Psychiatry Fellowship Seminar
- Weekly seminar that includes topics relevant to psychiatry fellows. We are joined by the fellows and faculty from Addictions Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry. Topics include neuroscience, medical education, and leadership.
- OHSU Grand Rounds (meets three times a month)
- Perinatal Psychiatry Case Conference (weekly)
- HIV Seminar (weekly while on multidisciplinary HIV Clinic rotation)
- Palliative Care Conference (weekly while on Palliative Care)
Optional
- OHSU Department of Psychiatry Research Conference (monthly)
- Health Science Research & Development Conference (monthly)
- VA Psychiatry Resident Journal Club/Case Conference (weekly)
- OHSU Neuroradiology Conference (weekly)
- All City Palliative Care Conference (weekly)
Teaching Opportunities
Our fellowship program has in-built formal and informal opportunities for the fellows to teach residents and medical students. Some examples include:
- Weekly CL case conferences led by fellows focused on the education of various levels of trainees strengthening knowledge, skills, and expertise in psychiatric consultation and liaison
- Fellows do group sessions for medical students on topics like capacity evaluation
- Fellows function as a junior attending in certain services, managing the service
- Teams on inpatient consultations services at both the Portland VA and OHSU include psychiatry residents and medical students
- Fellows work on QI projects on educational interface between Psychiatry and other specialties
- Fellows may have the opportunity to teach residency didactics or medical school classes