PGY-3 Didactics Curriculum (2025-2026)
Updated 8/13/2025
Week #1: 7/9/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Anxiety in the outpatient setting
|
Daniel Tieman |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy |
Patricia Osborne |
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3:00—4:00 pm |
Introductory Psychopharmacology |
Dr. Rachel Spector |
Week #2: 7/16/25
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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
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Long-Acting Injectable Anti- Psychotic Medications |
Eduardo Constantino |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
The Influence of the Environment and Trauma on Personality Development |
Jimmy Master |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
CBT: Early Sessions and Dr. Judith Beck Videos |
Patricia Osborne |
Week #4: 7/30/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
CBT: Automatic Thoughts I and Dr. Judith Beck Videos |
Patricia Osborne |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Motivational Interviewing |
Courtney O’Brien |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Outpatient Community Resources and Social Work Intervention |
Virginia Gunther/Farahdia Anglade |
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4:00-5:00 pm |
PRITE Review |
Chiefs |
Week #5: 08/6/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Use of newer antipsychotic medications |
Eduardo Constantino |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
A Developmental Understanding of Characterological Pathology |
Jimmy Master |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Feedback session |
Dr. DeLucia |
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4: 00-5:00 pm |
PRITE Review |
Chiefs |
Week #6: 8/13/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
CBT: Automatic Thoughts II and Behavioral Activation |
Patricia Osborne |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Understanding and Working with Cluster A Personality Types McWilliams Ch 9 & 10 |
Jimmy Master |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Long term medication side effects of antipsychotic medications |
Geoffrey Russell |
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4:00-5:00 pm |
PRITE Review |
Chiefs |
Week #7: 8/20/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Sleep Disorders Overview |
Philip Pecoraro L |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Understanding and Working with Cluster A Personality Types McWilliams Ch 9 & 10 |
Jimmy Master |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Impact of Racism on Mental Health |
Dr. Farquharson
Wif4004@med.cornell.edu |
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4:00-5:00 pm |
PRITE Review |
Chiefs |
Week #8: 8/27/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Understanding and Working with Cluster B Personality Types McWilliams Ch 4, 7, 8, & 14
|
Jimmy Master |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Stahl Casebook |
Eduardo Constantino |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
CBT: Working with Core Beliefs |
Patricia Osborne |
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4:00-5:00 pm |
PRITE Review |
Chiefs |
Week #9: 9/3/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Pharmacotherapy of Insomnia |
Eduardo Constantino |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
QI Research and Implementation |
Leslie Marino |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
CBT for Insomnia |
Courtney O’Brien |
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4:00-5:00 pm |
PRITE Review |
Chiefs |
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5-5:30 pm |
Feedback session |
Dr. DeLucia |
Week #10: 9/10/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Bipolar Disorders in the Outpatient Setting |
Matthew Sherman |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Understanding and Working with Cluster B Personality Types McWilliams Ch 4, 7, 8, & 14 |
Jimmy Master |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
CBT for Mood/Anxiety Disorders |
Dr. Patricia Osborne |
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4:00-5:00 pm |
PRITE Review |
Chiefs |
Week #11: 9/17/25- WELLNESS DAY
Week #12-9/24/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
DBT I |
Brittain Mahaffey |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Psychopharmacology Seminars: Lectures in Drug Interactions |
PGY-4 |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Understanding and Working with Cluster B Personality Types McWilliams Ch 4, 7, 8, & 14 |
Jimmy Master |
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4:00-5:00 pm |
PRITE Review |
Chiefs |
Week #13: 10/1/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
PGY-4 Seminar: Suicidal Behavior and Psychopharmacology |
PGY-4 |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Feedback session |
Dr. Delucia |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Motivational Interviewing |
Courtney O’Brien |
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4:00-5:00PM |
PRITE Review |
Chiefs |
Week #14: 10/8/25 - PRITE Exam - No lectures
Week #15: 10/15/25
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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) |
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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
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Psychopharmacology: PTSD Treatment |
PGY-4 |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Psychopharmacology: Child/Adolescent Anxiolytic |
PGY-4 |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Psychodynamic Treatment of Trauma Handouts
|
Jimmy Master |
Week #17: 10/29/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Treatment of ADHD |
Pecoraro |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Treating ADHD |
Gabrielle Carlson |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
CBT for ADHD |
Cynthia Cervoni |
Week #18: 11/5/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Integrating Medications & CBT For Individuals with Psychosis
|
P. Osborne & J. Weinstein |
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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
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Depression and Anxiety: A Developmental/Psychodynamic Perspective McWilliams Ch 11 |
Jimmy Master |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Treating Anxiety Disorders in Youth |
Maged Soliman |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Motivational Interviewing |
Courtney O’Brien |
Week #20: 11/19/25
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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 |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
CBT: Conceptualization and Treatment Plans for Mood and Anxiety Disorders |
Patricia Osborne |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Treating Depressive Disorders in Youth Perinatal Psychiatry |
Saurabh Gupta |
Week #21: 11/26/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Advanced Antipsychotic Psychopharmacology Strategy |
Jodi Weinstein |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
CBT for Psychosis and Demonstration of individual/group CBT |
Patricia Osborne |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Marginalized Youth, Intersectionality and Advocacy
|
Wil Farquharson (for Daniel Tieman)
Wif4004@med.cornell.edu |
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4-4:30 pm |
Feedback session |
Dr. DeLucia |
Week #22: 12/3/25
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Perinatal Psychiatry |
Melissa Rossi |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Understanding and Working with Cluster C Personality Types McWilliams Ch 13 |
Jimmy Master |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Motivational Interviewing |
Courtney Obrien |
Week #23: 12/10/25
Week #24: 12/17/25- WELLNESS DAY
Week #25: 12/24/25 – Open for cancellations.
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Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Clinical Prescribing of TCA/MAO (Part One) |
Erick Durham (tentative) |
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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.
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Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Clinical Prescribing of TCA/MAO (Part two) |
Erick Durham (tentative |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Antispychotic: Receptor Affinity |
Geoffrey Russell |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Antipsychotic: Side Effects |
Geoffrey Russell |
Week #27: 1/7/26-
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Addiction Psychiatry: management of comorbid conditions |
Richard Rosenthal |
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2-3:00 pm |
Family Therapy Didactic |
Spera |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Transgender Affirmative CBT: Supporting the Mental Health of LGBTQ |
Dr. Farquharson
Wif4004@med.cornell.edu |
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4-4:30 pm |
Feedback session |
Dr. DeLucia |
Week #28: 1/14/26
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Addiction Psychiatry: management of comorbid conditions |
Richard Rosenthal |
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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
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Advanced Psychopharmacology of SUDs |
Richard Rosenthal |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
CBT for Substance Use Disorders |
Patricia Osborne |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Substance use disorders in LGBTQ and Racial Minorities |
Veronica Tapia |
Week #30: 1/28/26
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Outpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: Treating Autism Spectrum Disorders |
Amanda Gorecki |
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2-3:00 pm |
Disability throughout the lifespan |
Maria Spera |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
CBT for Autism Spectrum Disorders |
Debra Reicher and Kimberly James
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Week #31: 2/4/26
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-3:00 pm |
Eating Disorders |
Marianne Tateosian |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
CBT for Eating Disorders |
Genna Hymowitz |
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4-4:30 pm |
Feedback session |
Dr. DeLucia |
Week #32: 2/11/26
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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
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Advanced Psychopharmacology of Lithium |
Mark Lerman |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Integrating Medications and CBT for Individuals with Psychosis |
Jodi Weinstein |
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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
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Treatments |
Philip Pecoraro |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (STPP & ISTDP) Handouts
|
Richard Rosenthal |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
CBT: Troubleshooting Common Challenges |
Patricia Osborne |
Week #35: 3/4/26
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Topics in Geriatric Psychiatry |
Christopher Christodoulou, (N.Palekar) |
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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
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1-2 pm TO BE AT PPC 1-5 PM |
Public Psychiatry |
Sherman |
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2-3 pm |
Public Psychiatry |
Sherman |
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3-4 pm |
Public Psychiatry |
Sherman |
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4-5 pm |
Public Psychiatry |
Sherman |
Week #37: 3/18/26 - WELLNESS DAY
Week #38: 3/25/26
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm
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The art of delivering feedback to families |
Debra Reicher |
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2:00-3:00 pm
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Psychopharmacology in Medically Complex Patients |
PGY-4 |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
How a psychiatrist integrates medications and CBT in Family Medicine and outpatient care |
Mark Lerman |
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4-4:30 pm |
Feedback session |
Dr. DeLucia |
Week #39: 4/1/26
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
CBT |
Patricia Osborne |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Advanced Psychiatric Management in the Cardiovascular Patient |
Walter Piddoubny |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Motivational Interviewing |
Courtney O’Brien |
Week #40: 4/8/26
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Psychopharmacological Approach to patients with medical co-morbidities |
Amanda Sukhu |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
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3:00-4:00pm |
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy |
Mark Lerman |
Week #41: 4/15/26
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Women’s Issues in Outpatient Psychiatry: I |
Courtney Liebling |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
CBT Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy Part II |
Mark Lerman/Patricia Osborne |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Culture, Trauma, and Dissociation: Is Dissociation Always Pathological? |
Veronica Tapia/Maria Spera |
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4-4:30 pm |
Feedback session |
Dr. DeLucia |
Week #42: 4/22/26
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-200 pm |
CBT |
Patricia Osborne |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Topics in Geriatric Psychiatry |
Nikhil Palekar |
Week #43: 4/29/26
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Research Methods in Cultural Psychiatry |
James Swain |
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2:00 - 3:00 pm |
CBT |
Osborne |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Grand Round Preparation |
Benjamin Delucia |
Week # 44: 5/6/26
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 PM |
Topics in Geriatric Psychiatry |
Nikhil Palekar |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
Grand Rounds Preparation |
Benjamin DeLucia |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Motivational Interviewing |
Courtney O’Brien |
Week #45: 5/13/26
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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100-2:00 pm |
Women’s Issues in Outpatient Psychiatry: II |
Courtney Liebling |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
CBT |
Patricia Osborne |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
Cultural Issues in Psychiatry: Addressing Oppression from a Trauma Lens |
Kimberly Alba |
Week #46: 5/20/26-
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, and Treatments |
Fred Friedberg |
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2:00-3:00pm
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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
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
MDMA in PTSD |
Constantine Ioannou |
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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
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Time |
Course |
Faculty |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Psiloycbin in the Terminal Patient |
Constantine Ioannou
cioannou@numc.edu |
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2:00-3:00 PM |
Motivational Interviewing |
Courtney O’Brien |
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3:00-4:00 pm |
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Week # 51: 6/17/26
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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