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:
- Integrated and Primary Care Psychiatry in the Context of Racism and Structural Oppression
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Secondary Trauma and Resilience
- Humanism, Rapport, and Supportive Therapy
- Psychological Theories and Approaches
- Primary Care-Based Psychiatric Assessment
- Introduction to Psychopharmacology
- Principles of Psychiatric Care in the Community
- Safety, Crisis Interventions, and Risk Assessment
- Practicing Culturally- and Linguistically-Humble Care
- Cultural Psychiatry, Migration, and Global Mental Health
- Gender, Queerness, and Mental Health
- Neurodiversity, Attention, and Learning
- Mind and Body
- Sleep Health
- Relating to Food and the Body
- Psychosexual Health and Intimate Relationships
- Attachment, Human Development, and Behavior
- Trauma Adaptations and Responses to Stress
- Dissociation
- Personality and Personality Adaptations
- Substance Use and Harm Reduction
- Opioid and Stimulant Use
- Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Use
- Depression, Grief, and Sadness
- Treatment-Resistant Depression
- The Bipolar Spectrum
- Emerging Psychosis
- Schizophrenia, Madness, and Alternate Perceptions of Reality
- Anxiety and Panic
- Obsessions and Compulsions
- Neurocognitive Changes
- Geriatric Mental Health
- Perinatal and Reproductive Mental Health
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Toward the Praxis of an Anti-Oppressive and Structurally-Subversive Primary Care Psychiatry
Fellows are able to select between three tracks:
- Primary Care/Community Psychiatry Integration (12-month duration)
- Primary Care/Community Psychiatry Integration with distinction in a fellow’s chosen area of clinical expertise (18-month duration)
- 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.