Objectives: To provide training in diagnosis, management and treatment of severely mentally ill patients in acute and remitting phases of illness; To enable the student to obtain an understanding of major psychiatric illness and provide treatment based on biological, psychological (including psychodynamic), and cultural concepts. 
Learning Experience: The Washington Heights Community Service provides comprehensive psychiatric care for patients over the age of 18 residing in the local catchment area of Northern Manhattan.  The students will be based on the 22-bed acute hospital unit, functioning as first year psychiatric residents (with a reduced caseload) working on an interdisciplinary team.  Students participate in rounds, case‑conferences, seminars and individual supervision, with a strong emphasis on differential diagnosis and the range of psychiatric therapeutic modalities (pharmacotherapy, individual, group, and family therapy, etc.).  The course is also intended to provide an introduction to cultural and ethnic issues involved in the management of a Spanish-speaking, low-income, immigrant population, with multiple psychosocial stressors. 
Feedback: Close supervision by resident and attending staff with continuous access to attending psychiatrists and chief‑of‑service.  Two hours of formal attending psychiatrist supervision will be offered weekly, in addition to access to daily consultation on management issues. 
Evaluation: Constant, ongoing evaluation from supervisors provided.  Students will be given a final evaluation summary by the unit attending psychiatrists, and will be asked for their evaluation of the program.
Faculty: Drs. David Lowenthal, David Merrill, and Claire Holderness.

Lorraine Marshall, MD MSW
Telephone (212) 305-9154
Email: marshalL@childpsych.columbia.edu
Address: Department of Pediatric Psychiatry
Babies Hospital, 6th floor North
Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian
3959 Broadway
New York, New York 10032

Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian,      
Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Pediatric Psychiatry
Main entrance is at 168th Street and Broadway, New York, New York

Objective: The student will train in the evaluation, treatment and management of child and adolescent psychiatric patients. The student will rotate mainly through Pediatric Psychiatry’s Consultation-Liaison Service to Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program. The student, if interested, may also spend time in the School Based Mental Health Program, also a service of Pediatric Psychiatry.
The student will have a chance to interact with children and adolescents referred for psychiatric services in three very different settings: the emergency room, the hospital, and the outpatient clinic. Children and families coping with psychiatric emergencies, medical illness or acute psychosocial stressors may be seen in addition to children who present for routine or urgent outpatient psychiatric care. Cultural issues, biopsychosocial practice, and evidence based treatment approaches will also be emphasized. 
Learning Experience: The student will gain experience in taking the history from a parent and child, assessing the child’s mental status, formulating a diagnostic impression, and determining the proper treatment modalities appropriate for the case. The student will also participate in the clinical follow up of patients. Active involvement in clinical team meetings, case conferences and didactic sessions will be expected. Attendance at the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s weekly Grand Rounds is encouraged.
Hours:  Monday-Friday 9-5, some evenings electively
Feedback: The student will be assigned to work with Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellows and Attendings who can provide ongoing feedback. The Course Director will be available for discussions and additional meetings as deemed necessary.
Evaluation: The student’s evaluation will be written by the Course Director based on feedback from the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellows and Attendings.

Objectives: Students will learn to evaluate and treat psychiatric patients on an inpatient clinical research unit. 
Learning Experience: Four Center is a 12-bed research unit that serves the divisions of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Eating Disorders, Neuroscience, and Substance Use.  Four Center admits patients with eating, mood and  substance use disorders ranging in age from adolescent to geriatric.  Patients are admitted based on their eligibility and agreement to participate in clinical research that has been approved by the NYSPI Institutional Review Board (IRB). Students will serve as primary therapists for a variety of patients, participate in the unit’s multidisciplinary treatment team, attend rounds and didactic seminars, and present at clinical case conferences. They will be introduced to principles of clinical research and various treatment modalities, including pharmacological, psychotherapeutic and cognitive-behavioral.  Students will be present Monday to Friday with no overnight or weekend call. 
Feedback and Evaluation: Students will be supervised closely by an attending psychiatrist, and will receive ongoing feedback throughout the rotation.  

Start date and time to be arranged with supervisor

Provides research training and experience relevant to psychiatry tailored to individual student interests. Possible areas of research include mood disorders, schizophrenia, substance abuse, and eating disorders, as well as basic neuroscience and child psychiatry.  Other areas can also be accommodated. 
Objectives: Vary with area selected. All accord opportunities to participate in ongoing research with potential to execute one's own projects under expert supervision.  Student will learn research methodology and strategies appropriate to the area of study and enrich his or her knowledge of the current status of the field. 
Learning Experience: Depends on area of interest and current research underway. Student will be assigned to and supervised by a faculty member, participate in research seminars, review present projects, have pertinent literature available for detailed study, attend grand rounds, and have direct research experience in selected aspects of studies. 
Feedback: Through regularly scheduled conferences with the faculty supervisor, student will be apprised of and discuss areas of strengths and weakness.. 
Evaluation: Will be done by senior faculty member in consultation with other faculty with whom the student works.

Objectives: Students will gain hands-on experience participating in basic research directed towards elucidating the cellular and molecular underpinnings of dopamine system dysfunction in schizophrenia and drug dependence.
Learning Experience: Research focus is on the mesolimbic dopamine system as it relates to drug dependence and schizophrenia.  Current projects focus on glutamatergic cotransmission by dopamine neurons, role of glutamate circuitry in drug dependence, dopamine modulation of target neurons, and ligand development to identify potential ligands  for PET studies of dopamine transmission in man.  Student will work one-on-one with a lab member, and will be expected to present one lab meeting focused on the research he/she is pursuing.
Evaluation: Will be based on lab performance and the presentation.

To provide training in the evaluation and treatment of a broad spectrum of psychiatric outpatients. 
Objectives: Learn techniques of evaluation, diagnosis, crisis intervention, and treatment ranging from psychopharmacology to individual, group, and family therapy in an outpatient psychiatric population. 
Learning Experience: The student will spend time in a psychiatric outpatient partial hospitalization program with a dialectical behavioral therapy orientation.  The student will participate in initial psychiatric evaluations and take an active role in formulating diagnoses and treatment options.  Treatment formulation will focus on selecting the type of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy appropriate for the patient's disorder.  The student will co-lead a DBT group and learn the principles of this evidence-based therapy.  The student will attend classes, grand rounds and clinical conferences.  All clinical work will be under the supervision of an attending physician and DBT specialist.
Feedback:  Students will receive verbal feedback from individual supervisors.
Evaluation:  Supervisors will complete a written evaluation of student’s performance. 
Faculty:  Drs. Mindlin and Twardan.

Dr. Prameet Singh, (212) 523-5089, psingh@chpnet.org

Dr. Prameet Singh, (212) 523-5089, psingh@chpnet.org

To provide advanced training in the treatment of psychiatric patients on an acute inpatient service in a general hospital.
Objectives: The student should learn to evaluate, diagnose and patients with pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments and should enhance their clinical interviewing skills. 
Learning Experience: The student will be a full member part of a treatment team on an acute psychiatric inpatient unit which includes an attending, residents, medical students and psychologists. Treatments consist of psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic interventions for acutely ill patients.  The student will carry 2 to 4 patients under the supervision of an attending and the Chief Resident and will attend all rounds, resident conferences and patient care meetings.  Students will also spend one half day per week in the psychiatric emergency room, under the supervision of an attending, with emphasis on continuity of care from emergency room to inpatient unit. Experiences in Consultation-Liaison are also available for interested students. 
Feedback: Student will receive ongoing feedback from individual supervisors.
Evaluation: Supervisors will complete a written evaluation.
Faculty: Drs. Millman and Amighi, and Chief Resident.

Objectives: To educate the student about diagnosis and management of chemical dependency in a nationally recognized treatment program, The Addiction Institute of NY. 
Learning Experience: Participate in the evaluation and management of substance abusers and the screening of addicted patients for detoxification. There is full exposure to a full range of drug treatment modalities that includes individual, group and family counseling and self-help approaches.  The student will be appropriately instructed and supervised by attending internists, psychiatrists and social workers, and is expected to read relevant literature on alcoholism and substance abuse and attend seminars on selected topics.
Feedback: Student will receive continuous feedback about his or her progress and specific learning needs during the entire course. 
Evaluation: At the end of the course, an evaluation will be formulated by consultation among all the students' preceptors.
Faculty: Drs. Posner, Lonesome, Levounis and staff.