Required Didactics

• C-L Weekly didactics: Year-long schedule by internal and sometimes external subject-matter experts. The topics cover areas tested on the C-L Board Examination and beyond, with extensive breadth and quality. Sample C-L didactic topics include:
  • cardiac psychiatry
  • renal psychiatry
  • psycho oncology
  • eating disorders
  • palliative medicine
  • neuroimaging
  • neurotoxicology
  • autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders
• Joint Psychiatry Fellowship Seminar: Year-long weekly schedule of modules relevant to Geriatric, C-L, and Addiction Psychiatry fellows. Topics include neuroscience, ethics, professionalism, medical education, career growth, mentorship, and leadership.
• OHSU Grand Rounds (2-3x/month)
• Perinatal Psychiatry Case Conference (during OHSU perinatal psychiatry rotation)
• OHSU Psychiatry Resident M & M

Optional Didactics

• VA Psychiatry Resident Journal Club/Case Conference (weekly)
• Knight Cancer Palliative Medicine Meeting (monthly)

Scholarship Opportunities

Our fellowship program has built-in formal and informal opportunities for the fellows to teach residents and medical students and engage in scholarship beyond clinical education. Some examples include: 

• QI projects on the educational interface between Psychiatry and other specialties (required, at VA)
• At least one scholarly project with a C-L attending, often leading to a conference presentation and/or publication (required)
• Grand Rounds at the Department of Psychiatry towards the end of the fellowship, guided by a faculty sponsor(required)
• Weekly C-L case conferences led by fellows focused on the education of various levels of trainees, strengthening knowledge, skills, and C-L expertise.
• Group sessions for medical students on topics like capacity evaluation and delirium (required, twice yearly)  
• Fellows function as a junior attending in certain services, managing the service 
  • Teams on inpatient consultation services at both the Portland VA and OHSU include psychiatry residents and medical students
• Fellows may have the opportunity to teach residency didactics or medical school classes