Didactic
- All residents spend one day per week at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for didactic and clinical conferences. Video-conferencing is used to include both Dartmouth and UVM faculty.
- After an introductory intensive "crash course" during orientation week, the first year didactics is devoted to child and adolescent development and psychopathology as well as the assessment and multi-modal treatment of children and families.
- The second year didactics are devoted to special topics essential for all residents, such as:
- research methodology
- ethics
- abuse
- consultation/liaison
- forensic child psychiatry
- homelessness
- AIDS
- cross-cultural psychiatry
- neuroscience
- advanced psychopharmacology
- There is also a weekly continuing case conference for all residents emphasizing the use of videotaped interviews to teach psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, family, and parent guidance therapies.
- In addition, all sites offer a rich assortment of formal and informal learning experiences including grand rounds, evidence-based medicine journal club, visiting scholars, and research seminars.
- Also, residents attend a bi-weekly combined Pediatrics/Child Psychiatry Case Conference to consult on psychosocial problems in pediatric practice.
