Curriculum

Fellows have 3-4 individual education sessions each week, during which they focus on a series of curricular modules throughout the year. The modules are developed or adapted based on the clinical interests and scope of practice of each fellow. An example curriculum for a family practice provider is included below:

1. Integrated and Primary Care Psychiatry in the Context of Racism and Structural Oppression
2. Trauma-Informed Care
3. Secondary Trauma and Resilience
4. Humanism, Rapport, and Supportive Therapy
5. Psychological Theories and Approaches
6. Primary Care-Based Psychiatric Assessment
7. Introduction to Psychopharmacology
8. Principles of Psychiatric Care in the Community
9. Safety, Crisis Interventions, and Risk Assessment
10. Practicing Culturally- and Linguistically-Humble Care
11. Cultural Psychiatry, Migration, and Global Mental Health
12. Gender, Queerness, and Mental Health
13. Neurodiversity, Attention, and Learning
14. Mind and Body
15. Sleep Health
16. Relating to Food and the Body
17. Psychosexual Health and Intimate Relationships
18. Attachment, Human Development, and Behavior
19. Trauma Adaptations and Responses to Stress
20. Dissociation
21. Personality and Personality Adaptations
22. Substance Use and Harm Reduction
23. Opioid and Stimulant Use 
24. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Use 
25. Depression, Grief, and Sadness
26. Treatment-Resistant Depression
27. The Bipolar Spectrum
28. Emerging Psychosis
29. Schizophrenia, Madness, and Alternate Perceptions of Reality 
30. Anxiety and Panic
31. Obsessions and Compulsions
32. Neurocognitive Changes
33. Geriatric Mental Health
34. Perinatal and Reproductive Mental Health
35. Child and Adolescent Mental Health
36. Toward the Praxis of an Anti-Oppressive and Structurally-Subversive Primary Care Psychiatry

Fellows are able to select between three tracks:

1. Primary Care/Community Psychiatry Integration (12-month duration)
2. Primary Care/Community Psychiatry Integration with distinction in a fellow’s chosen area of clinical expertise (18-month duration)
3. Consultation and Specialty Care with distinction in a fellow’s chosen area of clinical expertise (24-month duration)

Distinction areas can be selected and designed in collaboration with the fellow. Examples include Complex Trauma, Perinatal Psychiatry, Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, Cultural and Refugee Psychiatry, Psychiatric Care for People Who Are Unhoused, Neurodiversity, and countless others.