BronxCare Health System

Didactics
Curriculum

A Commitment to Learning & Wellness

At BronxCare, our residents benefit from a truly distinctive approach to education, including a full day of didactics. Unlike other programs where learning is scattered throughout the week, we dedicate one full day to coming together as a community. Each Thursday begins with The Residents’ Meeting, a dedicated time to connect with one another and touch base directly with our Program Director. During lunch, residents and faculty share ideas and experiences that contribute to a culture of collaboration.

The remainder of the day includes interactive learning sessions, ranging from core psychiatry topics and subspecialty exposure to case-based discussions, interview classes, and professional development workshops. We also create time for wellness activities, providing residents with the opportunity to recharge and reflect. This weekly schedule strengthens clinical skills and builds camaraderie, supports balance, and creates a genuine sense of community that distinguishes our residency.

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Our psychiatry residency curriculum is designed to provide a rich, structured, and progressive training experience, preparing residents for excellence across all domains of psychiatric practice. The first year focuses on foundational skills through inpatient psychiatry and medicine rotations, including a dedicated medical consult service for the inpatient psychiatric units. This ensures that residents develop strong medical and psychiatric integration. In the second year, residents expand their expertise through the subspecialties, including emergency psychiatry in the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP), addiction treatment at the Life Recovery Center, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry on inpatient units, and Consultation-Liaison services within the hospital.

Advanced training opportunities include forensic psychiatry electives at Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, geriatric psychiatry experiences at the VA Medical Center, and the option to arrange specialty electives at teaching institutions, such as Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Outpatient psychiatry in the third year emphasizes extensive psychotherapy supervision across multiple modalities, complemented by training in advanced treatments, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and other neuromodulation techniques.

This balanced pathway ensures that residents develop comprehensive clinical skills, from acute crisis care to long-term psychotherapy, while also exploring subspecialty and cutting-edge treatments. Graduates emerge as versatile psychiatrists equipped with the knowledge and confidence to practice in diverse settings.

Our didactics curriculum is thoughtfully structured to meet and exceed all ACGME requirements for psychiatric education. Residents benefit from a comprehensive module style schedule covering the essentials of psychiatry from neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychotherapy training to ethics, cultural psychiatry, and systems of care. By grounding our curriculum in the required standards and the latest advances in the field, we prepare residents for board certification and the realities of caring for patients in real-world settings.
 

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