Psychotherapy is an essential skillset for psychiatrists that helps to improve clinical outcomes with patients. It is a core requirement of the residency training that is done longitudinally over the PGY 2 through 5 years through a combination of seminars, clinical and supervisory experience. Psychotherapy modalities in our curriculum include psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), multi-person therapies (group or family), interpersonal psychotherapies (IPT or brief psychodynamic psychotherapy), dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) and integrative therapy. Psychotherapy teaching and supervision is provided to residents individually or in small groups, both centrally and at all of the teaching hospitals.
Each hospital-based teaching site has a psychotherapy coordinator who will meet with each resident to help facilitate psychotherapy training through the assignment of psychotherapy supervisors and mentorship. The curriculum for psychotherapy is stewarded by the Psychiatry Residency Program Committee in collaboration with the Psychotherapy Training Subcommittee of the residency program. Core modalities in the training program have faculty modality leads who provide content expertise.
We hope that your training is an enjoyable, inspiring, and meaningful experience that will add to your clinical expertise and effectiveness. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
