Our curriculum will familiarize you with all aspects of emergency psychiatry and prepare you for practice, research and teaching in the field. You will collaborate with attending psychiatrists and other professionals in the field to enhance your core clinical skills with specialization in emergency psychiatry.
Over the course of the program, you will:
- Evaluate patients in the emergency room setting, and determine appropriateness for inpatient hospitalization or discharge.
- Perform lethality and violence risk assessments.
- Manage patients’ symptoms using psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic techniques.
- Identify and treat patients with mood and psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, personality disorders, somatic symptom disorders, PTSD & other anxiety disorders, developmental disorders and neurocognitive disorders.
- Evaluate and treat patients with comorbid substance abuse disorders.
- Provide consultation to Crisis Services of Erie County and the medical emergency department.
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary treatment team and community-based partners.
- Teach and mentor junior trainees in the CPEP.
- Investigate research opportunities and develop scholarly work.
- Explore administrative dynamics with opportunities to shape systems of care.