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Curriculum


Fellows have 3-4 individual education sessions each week, during which they focus on a series of curricular modules throughout the year. The modules are developed or adapted based on the clinical interests and scope of practice of each fellow. An example curriculum for a family practice provider is included below:

    1. Integrated and Primary Care Psychiatry in the Context of Racism and Structural Oppression
    2. Trauma-Informed Care
    3. Secondary Trauma and Resilience
    4. Humanism, Rapport, and Supportive Therapy
    5. Psychological Theories and Approaches
    6. Primary Care-Based Psychiatric Assessment
    7. Introduction to Psychopharmacology
    8. Principles of Psychiatric Care in the Community
    9. Safety, Crisis Interventions, and Risk Assessment
    10. Practicing Culturally- and Linguistically-Humble Care
    11. Cultural Psychiatry, Migration, and Global Mental Health
    12. Gender, Queerness, and Mental Health
    13. Neurodiversity, Attention, and Learning
    14. Mind and Body
    15. Sleep Health
    16. Relating to Food and the Body
    17. Psychosexual Health and Intimate Relationships
    18. Attachment, Human Development, and Behavior
    19. Trauma Adaptations and Responses to Stress
    20. Dissociation
    21. Personality and Personality Adaptations
    22. Substance Use and Harm Reduction
    23. Opioid and Stimulant Use 
    24. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Use 
    25. Depression, Grief, and Sadness
    26. Treatment-Resistant Depression
    27. The Bipolar Spectrum
    28. Emerging Psychosis
    29. Schizophrenia, Madness, and Alternate Perceptions of Reality 
    30. Anxiety and Panic
    31. Obsessions and Compulsions
    32. Neurocognitive Changes
    33. Geriatric Mental Health
    34. Perinatal and Reproductive Mental Health
    35. Child and Adolescent Mental Health
    36. Toward the Praxis of an Anti-Oppressive and Structurally-Subversive Primary Care Psychiatry

Fellows are able to select between three tracks:

  1. Primary Care/Community Psychiatry Integration (12-month duration)
  2. Primary Care/Community Psychiatry Integration with distinction in a fellow’s chosen area of clinical expertise (18-month duration)
  3. Consultation and Specialty Care with distinction in a fellow’s chosen area of clinical expertise (24-month duration)

Distinction areas can be selected and designed in collaboration with the fellow. Examples include Complex Trauma, Perinatal Psychiatry, Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, Cultural and Refugee Psychiatry, Psychiatric Care for People Who Are Unhoused, Neurodiversity, and countless others.