Dartmouth-Hitchcock

Didactic

• All residents spend one day per week at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for didactic and clinical conferences. Video-conferencing is used to include both Dartmouth and offsite faculty.
• After an introductory intensive "crash course" during orientation week, the first year didactics (PDF) is devoted to child and adolescent development and psychopathology as well as the assessment and multi-modal treatment of children and families.
• The second year didactics (PDF) are devoted to special topics essential for all residents, such as:
  • Research methodology
  • Ethics
  • Child abuse & neglect
  • Consultation/liaison
  • Forensic child psychiatry
  • Homelessness
  • AIDS
  • Cross-cultural psychiatry
  • Neuroscience
  • Advanced psychopharmacology
• There is a weekly clinical case conference for all residents emphasizing the use of videotaped interviews to teach psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, family, and dialectic behavioral therapies.
• All sites offer a rich assortment of formal and informal learning experiences including grand rounds, evidence-based medicine journal club, visiting scholars, and research seminars.
• Residents attend a bi-weekly combined Pediatrics/Child Psychiatry Case Conference to consult on psychosocial problems in pediatric practice.