Goals and Objectives for Year 2

General Goals and Objectives
In Year 2, the resident must demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and attitudes in
addition to the six core competencies outlined in the following section including: patient care,
medical knowledge, interpersonal and communication skills, practice-based learning,
professionalism and systems-based practice.

Knowledge
In Year 2, the resident must build upon the knowledge base of Year 1, noted above. In addition, the resident must demonstrate increasing knowledge in the following areas:

1. The indications, contraindications and potential adverse effects of hospital-based care,
   including inpatient, acute residential and partial hospital treatments and the role of the
   child psychiatrist within the multidisciplinary team on inpatient, residential and partial
   hospital units
   
   
2. Principles of consultation to community systems of care
   
   
3. Medical and psychiatric administration in outpatient, inpatient, partial hospital
   and community settings
   
   
4. The basic information presented in the Year 2 clinical and didactic curriculum,
   augmented by self-directed learning in biological, social and clinical sciences related to
   child and adolescent psychiatry. The clinical and didactic curriculum is distributed in the
   Orientation Manual and at the beginning of every rotation and seminar
   
   
5. Principles and practices of managed care and health care delivery
   
   
6. Quantitative methods and a range of research methodology
   
   
7. Methods of teaching medical students, psychiatric residents, a range of related
   professionals that care for children, adolescents and families in clinical and community
   settings, parents and the public regarding normal and abnormal development,
   psychopathology, methods of therapeutic intervention and prevention

Skills
In Year 2, the resident must build upon the skills developed in Year 1 noted above.
In addition, the resident must demonstrate increasing skill in the following areas:

1. Ability to develop and implement a comprehensive assessment and treatment
   plan for children and adolescents in inpatient and partial hospital settings
   
   
2. Ability to work as a member of the multidisciplinary team in inpatient, acute
   residential and partial hospital settings
   
   
3. Ability to run groups in inpatient, acute residential and partial hospital units
   
   
4. Ability to consult effectively to community systems of care
   
   
5. Ability to teach medical students, residents, allied professionals caring for children,
   adolescents and families and lay individuals about normal and abnormal development,
   psychopathology and principles of prevention
   
   
6. Ability to function as an administrator in ambulatory and hospital-based systems of care
   

Attitudes
In Year 2, the resident must build upon the attitudes in Year 1, as specified in the six
core competencies.