PGY-3 Didactics Curriculum (2025-2026)
Updated 8/13/2025
Week #1: 7/9/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Anxiety in the outpatient setting
| Daniel Tieman |
2:00-3:00 pm | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | Patricia Osborne |
3:00—4:00 pm | Introductory Psychopharmacology | Dr. Rachel Spector |
Week #2: 7/16/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | CBT: Assessment and Session 1 | Patricia Osborne |
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2:00-3:00 pm | Primary and Secondary Defensive Processes in Therapy Primary and Secondary Defensive Processes in Therapy | Jimmy Master |
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3:00-4:00 pm | Advanced Psychopharmacology of Anxiety Disorders | Courtney Liebling |
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Week #3: 7/23/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | Long-Acting Injectable Anti- Psychotic Medications | Eduardo Constantino |
2:00-3:00 pm | The Influence of the Environment and Trauma on Personality Development | Jimmy Master |
3:00-4:00 pm | CBT: Early Sessions and Dr. Judith Beck Videos | Patricia Osborne |
Week #4: 7/30/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | CBT: Automatic Thoughts I and Dr. Judith Beck Videos | Patricia Osborne |
2:00-3:00 pm | Motivational Interviewing | Courtney O’Brien |
3:00-4:00 pm | Outpatient Community Resources and Social Work Intervention | Virginia Gunther/Farahdia Anglade |
4:00-5:00 pm | PRITE Review | Chiefs |
Week #5: 08/6/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | Use of newer antipsychotic medications | Eduardo Constantino |
2:00-3:00 pm | A Developmental Understanding of Characterological Pathology | Jimmy Master |
3:00-4:00 pm | Feedback session | Dr. DeLucia |
4: 00-5:00 pm | PRITE Review | Chiefs |
Week #6: 8/13/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | CBT: Automatic Thoughts II and Behavioral Activation | Patricia Osborne |
2:00-3:00 pm | Understanding and Working with Cluster A Personality Types McWilliams Ch 9 & 10 | Jimmy Master |
3:00-4:00 pm | Long term medication side effects of antipsychotic medications | Geoffrey Russell |
4:00-5:00 pm | PRITE Review | Chiefs |
Week #7: 8/20/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | Sleep Disorders Overview | Philip Pecoraro L |
2:00-3:00 pm | Understanding and Working with Cluster A Personality Types McWilliams Ch 9 & 10 | Jimmy Master |
3:00-4:00 pm | Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Impact of Racism on Mental Health | Dr. Farquharson
Wif4004@med.cornell.edu |
4:00-5:00 pm | PRITE Review | Chiefs |
Week #8: 8/27/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | Understanding and Working with Cluster B Personality Types McWilliams Ch 4, 7, 8, & 14
| Jimmy Master |
2:00-3:00 pm | Stahl Casebook | Eduardo Constantino |
3:00-4:00 pm |
CBT: Working with Core Beliefs |
Patricia Osborne |
4:00-5:00 pm | PRITE Review | Chiefs |
Week #9: 9/3/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | Pharmacotherapy of Insomnia | Eduardo Constantino |
2:00-3:00 pm | QI Research and Implementation | Leslie Marino |
3:00-4:00 pm | CBT for Insomnia | Courtney O’Brien |
4:00-5:00 pm | PRITE Review | Chiefs |
5-5:30 pm | Feedback session | Dr. DeLucia |
Week #10: 9/10/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | Bipolar Disorders in the Outpatient Setting | Matthew Sherman |
2:00-3:00 pm | Understanding and Working with Cluster B Personality Types McWilliams Ch 4, 7, 8, & 14 | Jimmy Master |
3:00-4:00 pm | CBT for Mood/Anxiety Disorders | Dr. Patricia Osborne |
4:00-5:00 pm | PRITE Review | Chiefs |
Week #11: 9/17/25- WELLNESS DAY
Week #12-9/24/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | DBT I | Brittain Mahaffey |
2:00-3:00 pm | Psychopharmacology Seminars: Lectures in Drug Interactions | PGY-4 |
3:00-4:00 pm | Understanding and Working with Cluster B Personality Types McWilliams Ch 4, 7, 8, & 14 | Jimmy Master |
4:00-5:00 pm | PRITE Review | Chiefs |
Week #13: 10/1/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | PGY-4 Seminar: Suicidal Behavior and Psychopharmacology | PGY-4 |
2:00-3:00 pm | Feedback session | Dr. Delucia |
3:00-4:00 pm | Motivational Interviewing | Courtney O’Brien |
4:00-5:00PM | PRITE Review | Chiefs |
Week #14: 10/8/25 - PRITE Exam - No lectures
Week #15: 10/15/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Cultural issues in Psychiatry: Justice Involved Culture and Risk Assessments | Ryan Montes
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2:00-3:00 pm | CBT for PTSD | Meagan Ryan (Virtual) |
3:00-4:00 pm | CBT: Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for Trauma Demonstration and Video | Patricia Osborne
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Week #16: 10/22/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Psychopharmacology: PTSD Treatment | PGY-4 |
2:00-3:00 pm | Psychopharmacology: Child/Adolescent Anxiolytic | PGY-4 |
3:00-4:00 pm | Psychodynamic Treatment of Trauma Handouts
| Jimmy Master |
Week #17: 10/29/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | Treatment of ADHD | Pecoraro |
2:00-3:00 pm | Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Treating ADHD | Gabrielle Carlson |
3:00-4:00 pm | CBT for ADHD | Cynthia Cervoni |
Week #18: 11/5/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | Integrating Medications & CBT For Individuals with Psychosis
| P. Osborne & J. Weinstein |
2:00-4:00 pm | CBT for OCD | Britian Mahaffey
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4-4:30 pm | Feedback session | Dr. DeLucia |
Week #19: 11/12/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Depression and Anxiety: A Developmental/Psychodynamic Perspective McWilliams Ch 11 | Jimmy Master |
2:00-3:00 pm | Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Treating Anxiety Disorders in Youth | Maged Soliman |
3:00-4:00 pm | Motivational Interviewing | Courtney O’Brien |
Week #20: 11/19/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Transgender Mental Health and Gender Affirming Medical Interventions | Veronica Tapia |
2:00-3:00 pm | CBT: Conceptualization and Treatment Plans for Mood and Anxiety Disorders | Patricia Osborne |
3:00-4:00 pm | Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Treating Depressive Disorders in Youth Perinatal Psychiatry | Saurabh Gupta |
Week #21: 11/26/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Advanced Antipsychotic Psychopharmacology Strategy | Jodi Weinstein |
2:00-3:00 pm | CBT for Psychosis and Demonstration of individual/group CBT | Patricia Osborne |
3:00-4:00 pm | Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Marginalized Youth, Intersectionality and Advocacy
| Wil Farquharson (for Daniel Tieman)
Wif4004@med.cornell.edu |
4-4:30 pm | Feedback session | Dr. DeLucia |
Week #22: 12/3/25
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | Perinatal Psychiatry | Melissa Rossi |
2:00-3:00 pm | Understanding and Working with Cluster C Personality Types McWilliams Ch 13 | Jimmy Master |
3:00-4:00 pm | Motivational Interviewing | Courtney Obrien |
Week #23: 12/10/25
| Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
Understanding and Working with Cluster C Personality Types McWilliams Ch 13 | Jimmy Master | |
2:00-3:00 pm | Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Psychiatry | Meghan Malhotra |
3:00-4:00 pm | Perinatal Psychiatry | Melissa Rossi |
Week #24: 12/17/25- WELLNESS DAY
Week #25: 12/24/25 – Open for cancellations.
Course
| Faculty | |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Clinical Prescribing of TCA/MAO (Part One) | Erick Durham (tentative) |
2:00-3:00 pm |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
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Week #26: 12/31/25 -Open for cancellations.
| Course | Faculty |
1:00-2:00 pm | Clinical Prescribing of TCA/MAO (Part two) | Erick Durham (tentative |
2:00-3:00 pm | Antispychotic: Receptor Affinity | Geoffrey Russell |
3:00-4:00 pm | Antipsychotic: Side Effects | Geoffrey Russell |
Week #27: 1/7/26-
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | Addiction Psychiatry: management of comorbid conditions | Richard Rosenthal |
2-3:00 pm | Family Therapy Didactic | Spera |
3:00-4:00 pm | Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Transgender Affirmative CBT: Supporting the Mental Health of LGBTQ | Dr. Farquharson
Wif4004@med.cornell.edu |
4-4:30 pm | Feedback session | Dr. DeLucia |
Week #28: 1/14/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | Addiction Psychiatry: management of comorbid conditions | Richard Rosenthal |
2:00-3:00 pm | Psychodynamic didactics on Depressive & Manic personalities. - Part 1 | Adria Gerber (Virtual)
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3:00-4:00 pm | Psychodynamic didactics on Depressive & Manic personalities. - Part 2
| Adria Gerber (Virtual)
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Week #29: 1/21/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Advanced Psychopharmacology of SUDs | Richard Rosenthal |
2:00-3:00 pm | CBT for Substance Use Disorders | Patricia Osborne |
3:00-4:00 pm | Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Substance use disorders in LGBTQ and Racial Minorities | Veronica Tapia |
Week #30: 1/28/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Outpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: Treating Autism Spectrum Disorders | Amanda Gorecki |
2-3:00 pm | Disability throughout the lifespan | Maria Spera |
3:00-4:00 pm | CBT for Autism Spectrum Disorders | Debra Reicher and Kimberly James
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Week #31: 2/4/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-3:00 pm |
Eating Disorders |
Marianne Tateosian |
3:00-4:00 pm | CBT for Eating Disorders | Genna Hymowitz |
4-4:30 pm | Feedback session | Dr. DeLucia |
Week #32: 2/11/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Outpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: Bipolar Spectrum Disorders | Gabrielle Carlson
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2:00-4:00 pm | The Psychodynamics of Addictions.
| Monica Thomas |
Week #33: 2/18/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | Advanced Psychopharmacology of Lithium | Mark Lerman |
2:00-3:00 pm | Integrating Medications and CBT for Individuals with Psychosis | Jodi Weinstein |
3:00-4:00 pm | Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Intersectionality of LGBTQ+ and Racially Marginalized Identities | Dr. Farquharson/A. Gonzalez
Wif4004@med.cornell.edu |
Week #34: 2/25/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Treatments | Philip Pecoraro |
2:00-3:00 pm | Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (STPP & ISTDP) Handouts
| Richard Rosenthal |
3:00-4:00 pm | CBT: Troubleshooting Common Challenges | Patricia Osborne |
Week #35: 3/4/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Topics in Geriatric Psychiatry | Christopher Christodoulou, (N.Palekar) |
2:00-3:00 pm | Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) Handouts | Jimmy Master
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3:00-4:00 pm | CBT | Dr. Osborne |
Week #36: 3/11/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1-2 pm TO BE AT PPC 1-5 PM | Public Psychiatry | Sherman |
2-3 pm | Public Psychiatry | Sherman |
3-4 pm | Public Psychiatry | Sherman |
4-5 pm | Public Psychiatry | Sherman |
Week #37: 3/18/26 - WELLNESS DAY
Week #38: 3/25/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm
| The art of delivering feedback to families | Debra Reicher |
2:00-3:00 pm
| Psychopharmacology in Medically Complex Patients | PGY-4 |
3:00-4:00 pm | How a psychiatrist integrates medications and CBT in Family Medicine and outpatient care | Mark Lerman |
4-4:30 pm | Feedback session | Dr. DeLucia |
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 pm | CBT | Patricia Osborne |
2:00-3:00 pm | Advanced Psychiatric Management in the Cardiovascular Patient | Walter Piddoubny |
3:00-4:00 pm | Motivational Interviewing | Courtney O’Brien |
Week #40: 4/8/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Psychopharmacological Approach to patients with medical co-morbidities | Amanda Sukhu |
2:00-3:00 pm |
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3:00-4:00pm | Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy | Mark Lerman |
Week #41: 4/15/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Women’s Issues in Outpatient Psychiatry: I | Courtney Liebling |
2:00-3:00 pm | CBT Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy Part II | Mark Lerman/Patricia Osborne |
3:00-4:00 pm | Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Culture, Trauma, and Dissociation: Is Dissociation Always Pathological? | Veronica Tapia/Maria Spera |
4-4:30 pm | Feedback session | Dr. DeLucia |
Week #42: 4/22/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-200 pm | CBT | Patricia Osborne |
2:00-3:00 pm | Topics in Geriatric Psychiatry | Nikhil Palekar |
Week #43: 4/29/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Research Methods in Cultural Psychiatry | James Swain |
2:00 - 3:00 pm | CBT | Osborne |
3:00-4:00 pm | Grand Round Preparation | Benjamin Delucia |
Week # 44: 5/6/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
1:00-2:00 PM |
Topics in Geriatric Psychiatry |
Nikhil Palekar |
2:00-3:00 pm | Grand Rounds Preparation | Benjamin DeLucia |
3:00-4:00 pm | Motivational Interviewing | Courtney O’Brien |
Week #45: 5/13/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
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100-2:00 pm | Women’s Issues in Outpatient Psychiatry: II | Courtney Liebling |
2:00-3:00 pm | CBT | Patricia Osborne |
3:00-4:00 pm | Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Addressing Oppression from a Trauma Lens | Kimberly Alba |
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, and Treatments | Fred Friedberg |
2:00-3:00pm
| Advanced Psychopharmacology: Addiction
| Brendan Beecher
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3:00-4:00 pm | CBT for Chronic Pain | Cynthia Cervoni |
Week #47- 5/27/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | MDMA in PTSD | Constantine Ioannou |
2:00-3:00pm
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3:00-4:00 pm | Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Reflections | Dr. Faruqharson/Dodie Gillett Wif4004@med.cornell.edu
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Week # 48: 6/3/26 - Resident Retreat
Week #49: 6/10/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm | Psiloycbin in the Terminal Patient | Constantine Ioannou
cioannou@numc.edu |
2:00-3:00 PM | Motivational Interviewing | Courtney O’Brien |
3:00-4:00 pm |
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Week # 51: 6/17/26
Time | Course | Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
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2:00-4:00 pm | One Case, Two Perspectives: Comparisons & Integration of CBT & Psychodynamic Techniques | Patricia Osborne |
Week # 52: 6/24/26-- Resident Handoff
