Psychiatry Residency Columbia - Research and Teaching

Research, teaching and quality improvement

Residents have numerous opportunities to participate in research, teaching, and quality improvement initiatives. Resident research is strongly supported by the program, the department, and the graduate medical education office. Introductory didactic instruction is given on human subjects research, the Institutional Review Board, digital library literature reviews, question development, and proposal writing. Residents subsequently develop a personal longitudinal research project under the guidance of a mentor and the resident research committee. Residents are encouraged to submit their research for poster presentation and publication, and to present the results as a senior grand rounds.

Residents hone teaching skills through formal presentations (evidence-based medicine, journal clubs, case conference, grand rounds, and didactics) and clinical teaching. Residents provide clinical teaching and/or didactics to other psychiatry residents, rotating residents, non-psychiatry specialty departments, and medical students. Residents participate in tutoring third year medical students during their psychiatry clerkship and participating in the Observed Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE).

Residents participate in online quality improvement training modules and develop a group quality improvement/practice based learning project for the ambulatory clinic. Residents develop a personal patient safety goal every six months and participate in event analysis through real and simulated cases.