Northern Outreach Psychiatry Selectives
Code
Title Contact Info
OUTR- CE-1
SELECTIVES
ACME Psychiatric Outreach,
Provincial Outreach and
Inner City Health Associates
Inquiries: Dr. Vicky Stergiopoulos
Supervisor(s): Drs. Paula Ravitz, John Teshima, Vicky
Stergiopoulos, Robert Cooke
Place:
Time:
No. of Residents: 3 month, 6 month or 1 year rotations
Description
The ACME psychiatric outreach elective: focusing on CanMEDs Roles of
Advocate, Collaborator, Communicator, Manager, and Medical Expert."
Drs. Paula Ravitz, John Teshima, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Robert Cooke
Psychiatrists have the opportunity to liaise with and work in settings where
there are high and complex service demands, both locally and in northern
underserviced communities. We are often looked to on teams to take
leadership, to provide expert opinions as consultants and to build capacity
through in-service education or case conferences. This is especially true in the
context of outreach or community-based work. This elective will foster
expertise in senior residents as consultants through outreach work done both
through the Northern Psychiatric Outreach Program at the Centre for Addiction
and Mental Health (NPOP-C) & locally in one of three streams. A minimum of
10 clinical days of NPOP-C visits/6 month period to northern Ontario settings in
combination with local outreach will be arranged. The resident will also be
exposed to the use of videoconferencing technology for the provision of both
telemedicine clinical consultation and education to remote, rural sites.
Through NPOP-C visits, informal and formal educational activities will be
encouraged. In this context, the CanMEDs roles of medical expert,
collaborator, advocate, manager and educator will be fostered.
Residents can elect to do 3 month, 6 month or 1 year rotations in this elective.
Provincial outreach visits will be done in combination with 1 of 3 differing
Toronto based electives as listed below.
Provincial outreach and Inner City Health Associates: This stream of
the elective will combine UTPOP mentored visits to northern,
underserviced communities with a placement in the Inner City Health
Associates Programme at St Michael’s Hospital who provides services
to marginalized or high need populations, for example in shelters, with
inner city primary care services, drop-in centres, or with street
outreach teams. Residents will become familiar with the determinants
of community mental health, approaches to program development,
and current issues in mental health policy as it applies to these
populations Residents will be supervised by several of the outreach
psychiatrists, and in Toronto, principally Dr. Vicky Stergiopoulos
OUTR- CE-3
SELECTIVES
ACME Psychiatric Outreach,
Provincial outreach and the
Mood & Anxiety Disorders
Program
Inquiries: Dr. Robert Cooke
Supervisor(s): Drs. Paula Ravitz, John Teshima, Vicky
Stergiopoulos, Robert Cooke
Place: CAMH
Time:
No. of Residents: 3 month, 6 month or 1 year rotations
The ACME psychiatric outreach elective: focusing on CanMEDs Roles of
Advocate, Collaborator, Communicator, Manager, and Medical Expert."
Drs. Paula Ravitz, John Teshima, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Robert Cooke
Psychiatrists have the opportunity to liaise with and work in settings where
there are high and complex service demands, both locally and in northern
underserviced communities. We are often looked to on teams to take
leadership, to provide expert opinions as consultants and to build capacity
through in-service education or case conferences. This is especially true in the
context of outreach or community-based work. This elective will foster
expertise in senior residents as consultants through outreach work done both
through the Northern Psychiatric Outreach Program at the Centre for
Addiction and Mental Health (NPOP-C) & locally in one of three streams. A
minimum of 10 clinical days of NPOP-C visits/6 month period to northern
Ontario settings in combination with local outreach will be arranged. The
resident will also be exposed to the use of videoconferencing technology for
the provision of both telemedicine clinical consultation and education to
remote, rural sites. Through NPOP-C visits, informal and formal educational
activities will be encouraged. In this context, the CanMEDs roles of medical
expert, collaborator, advocate, manager and educator will be fostered.
Residents can elect to do 3 month, 6 month or 1 year rotations in this elective.
Provincial outreach visits will be done in combination with 1 of 3 differing
Toronto based electives as listed below.
Provincial outreach and the Mood & Anxiety Disorders Program at
CAMH: This stream will provide the trainee with home placement in
the outpatient clinics of the Mood and Anxiety Program, and the
opportunity to develop advanced skill in the assessment and
management of severe, chronic and/or complex mood and anxiety
disorders including exposure to both psychopharmacologic and
psychotherapeutic interventions. Residents will be supervised by
several of the outreach psychiatrists, and in Toronto, principally by Dr
R.Cook
OUTR- CE-5
SELECTIVES
ACME Psychiatric Outreach,
Provincial outreach with
Psychotherapy
Inquiries: Dr. Dr. Paula Ravitz
Supervisor(s): Drs. Paula Ravitz, John Teshima, Vicky
Stergiopoulos, Robert Cooke
Place: Mt. Sinai Hospital
Time:
No. of Residents: 3 month
The ACME psychiatric outreach elective: focusing on CanMEDs Roles of
Advocate, Collaborator, Communicator, Manager, and Medical Expert."
Drs. Paula Ravitz, John Teshima, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Robert Cooke
Psychiatrists have the opportunity to liaise with and work in settings where
there are high and complex service demands, both locally and in northern
underserviced communities. We are often looked to on teams to take
leadership, to provide expert opinions as consultants and to build capacity
through in-service education or case conferences. This is especially true in the
context of outreach or community-based work. This elective will foster
expertise in senior residents as consultants through outreach work done both
through the Northern Psychiatric Outreach Program at the Centre for
Addiction and Mental Health (NPOP-C) & locally in one of three streams. A
minimum of 10 clinical days of NPOP-C visits/6 month period to northern
Ontario settings in combination with local outreach will be arranged. The
resident will also be exposed to the use of videoconferencing technology for
the provision of both telemedicine clinical consultation and education to
remote, rural sites. Through NPOP-C visits, informal and formal educational
activities will be encouraged. In this context, the CanMEDs roles of medical
expert, collaborator, advocate, manager and educator will be fostered.
Residents can elect to do 3 month in this elective. Provincial outreach visits will
be done in combination with 1 of 3 differing Toronto based electives as listed
below.
Provincial outreach with Psychotherapy at Mt. Sinai Hospital: Please
note that the 3 month option does not apply to this rotation. This
stream of the elective will combine NPOP-C mentored visits to
northern, underserviced communities with a placement at the Mt.
Sinai Hospital with a focus on developing expertise in formulation of
challenging patients along with skills based short‐term
psychotherapies. Residents will have opportunity to facilitate frontline staff training in brief psychotherapy models utilizing teaching
materials and lesson plans especially created for this context.
Residents will be supervised by several of the outreach psychiatrists,
and in Toronto, principally by Dr. Paula Ravitz.