Program Details

Curriculum

Our Core Didactics Curriculum covers all major topics in forensic psychiatry and incorporates gender, racial, and cultural perspectives with a diverse, comprehensive curriculum that occurs throughout the fellows one year training. Fellows will have one day per week protected to participate in didactics. Fellows receive instruction in a variety of topics including but not limited to:

• Landmark Cases
• Mock Trial
• Moot Court
• Research & QI
• Ethics
• United States Legal System
• Juvenile Justice System
• Criminal Law, Procedure & Constitutional Protections
• Civil Procedure
• Psychological Testing
• Educational Conferences

During the one year fellowship, fellows will actively participate in a variety of conferences. The goal of these conferences is to:

• Improve critical thinking
• Improve understanding and interpretation of the literature
• Improve the management of patients with complex conditions
• Improve the understanding of ethical principles in the care for patients

Major educational conferences are listed below:

Conference	Frequency
Psychiatry Grand Rounds	Weekly
Journal Club	Monthly
Psychiatry Symposia - Addiction Medicine, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry	Quarterly
Quality/Morbidity & Mortality Conference	Quarterly
Hackensack Meridian Health Research Day at Ocean University Medical Center	Yearly
Interdisciplinary team meetings	Varies