Professional Development

The Department of Psychiatry offers several opportunities for professional development.

Grand Rounds

Grand rounds are an important teaching tool and ritual of medical education and inpatient care, consisting of presenting the medical problems and treatment of a particular patient to an audience consisting of doctors, residents and medical students. The patient was traditionally present for the round and would answer questions; grand rounds have evolved with most sessions now rarely having a patient present and being more like lectures. An actor portrays the patient in some instances.

Grand rounds help doctors and other healthcare professionals keep up to date in important evolving areas which may be outside of their core practice. Most departments at major teaching hospitals will have their own specialized, often weekly, grand rounds. Attending grand rounds is also an important supplement to medical school and on-the-job resident training. (Grand rounds can also be distinguished from rounds which is the (typically) daily visit by the attending physician and team to all that physician's patients on the ward. Rounding with an attending physician is an important part of medical on-the-job training and education, but its primary focus is immediate care for the patients on the ward. Grand rounds tends to present the bigger picture, including experience with patients over many years, and the newest research and treatments in an area. Grand rounds tend to be open to the entire medical professional community, whereas rounds are specific to individual attending physicians and their teams).

See upcoming Grand Rounds

Evidence Based Medicine Seminar

In the fall of 2005, we began an Evidence-Based Medicine Seminar series. The goal of this seminar series is to provide trainees, faculty and staff with a primer and update on EBM approaches to psychiatric care. The slide sets available here are recent seminar offerings on specific clinical questions or background/overview issues for EBM. 

Professional Trainings

The Department offers several formal trainings by specialty faculty.

Upcoming Trainings:

Psychiatric Pharmacogenomics: A Practical Guide to Gene-Drug Interactions and Tests