A core weekly didactic seminar series is the academic cornerstone for each of the training years. These seminars are broad-based, dealing with practical and theoretical issues in psychiatry, as well as providing an overview of emerging new knowledge in our field. In addition, there are weekly interviewing courses for PGY-Is, as well as a weekly psychotherapy course for PGY-II’s a 9-week CBT course imbedded into the PGY-II seminar, and an optional 9-month CBT course for PGY-IIIs. We have a weekly reading seminar, journal clubs, an advanced psychopharmacology course, and brief psychotherapy and family therapy courses.  There is a weekly Departmental Conference featuring distinguished local, national, and international experts, as well as department-wide case conferences. In addition to these didactic offerings, each resident receives formal supervision from faculty on each team or clinical service and is assigned two additional clinical supervisors for work with outpatient cases.  We annually participate in the national psychiatry resident in-training examination (PRITE).

As a major UCLA affiliate, Harbor is a site for the core Year III medical student psychiatry clerkship as well as for Year IV elective clerkships. There is extensive opportunity for medical student teaching.

Los Angeles attracts many local, national, and international scholarly meetings. In addition, scientific presentations are regularly offered by UCLA, USC, the Southern California Psychiatric Society, numerous family therapy groups, and the local psychoanalytic institutes. Residents are made aware of these special educational opportunities and their participation is encouraged and facilitated.