Women's Health Residency Training
women's health training

Mental Health

Mental Health

A continuity clinic in ambulatory psychiatry provides an arena for learning mental health disorders that have important gender differences.

  • Special training in ambulatory psychiatry
    • One-on-one guidance by Kate Smith, DO, who specializes in women's mental health
    • Integration of mental health in primary care setting
    • Continuity clinic providing in-depth training and long term follow-up
  • Development of skills critical to the practice of primary care for women
    • Recognition & assessment of psychiatric & behavioral disorders in women
    • Diagnosis, management & treatment based on target symptoms profile
    • Understanding drug interactions/pharmacokinetics
    • Didactics in:
      • Domestic violence
      • Substance abuse
      • Eating disorders

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Updated: 07/30/2009