The BEH training aims to advance residents’ skills in the following areas:

• Clinical Interviewing Skills:

Use time-sensitive, patient-focused interviewing skills to optimize physician-patient relationship and collaborative, patient-centered care.

• Bio-psycho-social Inquiry:

Assess and address emotional aspects of illness, stress, mind-body connection, family/role impact, and cultural beliefs.

• Behavioral Medicine Interventions/Techniques:

Develop knowledge and skills in a range of behavioral medicine techniques to promote illness management and wellness across a range of medical and psychiatric conditions.

• Differential diagnostic skills - Psychiatric Conditions:

Understand psychiatric diagnostic assessment per DSM-5 criteria, utilize symptom screening tools appropriately, understand components of mental status exam, manage psychiatric emergencies: safety plan and safety assessment.

• Integrated interprofessional behavioral health: 

Utilization of team-based care, interdisciplinary work (geriatric psychiatry, pediatric psychiatry, Behavioral Health Consultation (BHC). Understanding community referrals - processes, expectations, goals.

• Professionalism:

Self-reflection in clinical practices, impact of personal attitudes and behaviors on patient care. Ethical issues: informed consent, patient autonomy, confidentiality, quality of care, self-direction in learning. Punctuality, timely communication, and self-directed learning.

Please refer to individual PGY year for specifics pertaining to curricular specifics:

BEH PGY1 

BEH PGY2 

BEH PGY3