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Academics: Didactics

To supplement the clinical experience, each post-graduate year contains weekly didactic seminars that enable the residents to build a solid foundation of knowledge. During these seminars, attending physicians cover the residents' clinical duties in order to protect this educational time, thus allowing the residents to learn free of the distraction from clinical services.

Other didactic experience is provided through clinical conferences, grand rounds, and journal clubs, psychoanalytic psychotherapy seminars, cognitive behavioral seminars, and psychopharmacology seminars.

The strong didactics offered at UCI help explain why UCI Psychiatry residents continue to excel each year on the national PRITE exams as well as on the board certification exams.

"Core lectures are an integral part of our training at UCI.  Although there is much on-the-job learning during our rotations, it is critical to have structured teaching on the different topics.  As interns, we are learning the basics in pharmacotherapy, various psychiatric disorders, and other subjects such as ethics and professionalism.  My favorite, however, are the psychotherapy sessions with Dr. Sporty.

 In our second and third years, we have a series of more in-depth lectures in both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy.  Our didactics are designed to give a comprehensive overview of all the different aspects of psychiatry, and I have confidence that our graduates are some of the most competitive candidates out in the world of psychiatry."

 Sayeh Beheshti

San Jose State University, B.S. and M.A.

UC Irvine School of Medicine, M.D.

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