Clinical and Basic
Neuroscience Research
Training Program in Psychiatry

PG3 Years:
Outpatient Psychiatry: Research Specialty Clinics

For NRTP residents, rotations in specific outpatient specialty research clinics provide dove-tailing experiences in both the fundamentals of outpatient clinical psychiatry and neurobiologically-oriented clinical research. Current research clinics are diagnosis based with opportunities for rotations in the following areas:

• Affective disorders (adolescent and adult)
  
• Post-partum depression
  
• Post-traumatic (civilian and military) stress
  
• Substance abuse
  
• Schizophrenic and refractory psychotic disorders

Residents also fulfill formal ACGME requirements and gain experience in related outpatient disciplines, including Child Pyschiatry and Long-Term Psychotherapy / Psychopharmacology.

Departmental courses, seminars and other educational activities include core didactics and supervision in the following:

• Principles and practice of psychopharmacology
  
• Psychotherapeutic practice, including:
  
  • Psychodynamic, interpersonal, cognitive and behavioral therapies
    
  • Psychoeducational treatments
    
  • Group, family and couples therapies
    
  • Brief and long-term treatment approaches.

In addition, NRTP residents attend specialized educational seminars tailored to their specialized training, including:

• Neuroscience Research Seminar in Psychiatry: In a "works-in-progress" or roundtable discussion format, senior investigators, post-doctoral fellows, residents and doctoral (Ph.D.) candidates present their own ongoing clinical and basic neuroscience research, discuss specific methodological or theoretical issues, and synthesize/integrate findings in an effort to generate new hypotheses and questions. Since the seminar draws researchers from both the clinical and basic realms, an exciting and creative cross-talk across these domains results.
• Neuroscience in Psychiatry Review Course: Meets weekly during the academic year and consists of formal presentations and informal discussion. Modules include clinical research methods, basic neurobiology, molecular genetics, neuropharmacology, specific mental disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, and neuroimaging

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