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- Psychology Didactic Seminar - This course is a weekly special topic series addressing a broad range of theoretical, clinical, and related issues, including diagnosis, special assessment and therapeutic techniques, supervision, evaluation, and consultation in professional practice.
- Special Topics Seminar in Psychology - This seminar is a weekly series that covers important topics in psychology that apply across contexts, including multiculturalism, diversity, ethics, legal issues, and professional identity development and practice.
- Internship Processing Group - A Psychology faculty member who is not directly involved in the supervision of interns or the administration of the training program facilitates this informal group with all psychology interns monthly. Interns have the opportunity to reflect on their experiences of internship during this group.
- Internship Review Meetings - The Training Director facilitates this informal meeting with all psychology interns monthly. Interns have the opportunity to reflect on their experiences of the internship and to voice any concerns. When needed, the Training Director will create a plan of action to address concerns.
Psychiatry Grand Rounds - This series is a weekly conference which includes presentation and discussion of particularly interesting and/or highly illustrative clinical cases and special topics in psychiatry and psychology.
Forensic Track
1. Forensics Didactic Core Curriculum and Expert/Legal Seminars – This is a weekly interdisciplinary series facilitated by the Forensics Division of the Department covering forensics background and historical topics, malingering, criminal law, civil law, child forensic psychiatry, legal regulation of psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, special issues in curriculum, and components specific to correctional psychiatry, as well as report-writing, development of the forensic opinion, and expert witness testimony.
2. ELMHS Case Conference Series – This is a quarterly case conference series where challenging/interesting/unique cases are presented by trainees, staff, or faculty. All ELMHS Psychology staff attend, as well as all trainees (LSU Externs, Tulane Forensic Intern, Tulane Forensic Fellow). The purpose is to allow interns to gain experience in presenting in case conference and to get assistance and input on difficult forensic assessment and treatment cases from peers and multiple supervisors.
3. Tulane Law School Mock Trial – An annual joint activity conducted with the Tulane Law Clinic and Tulane Forensic Psychiatry Fellows. Interns will have the opportunity to consult with 3rd year law students from Tulane University in the role of an expert witness. A full mock trial will be conducted with the opportunity to be examined and cross examined by mock attorneys in the Orleans Parish Criminal District Courthouse. Feedback is provided to interns by clinical faculty (psychiatry and psychology professors) in the School of Medicine and in the Tulane Law Clinic.
4. Tulane Forensic Psychiatry Annual Symposium – Every year in April, the Tulane Forensic Psychiatry Division hosts a 2-day continuing education conference in forensic psychiatry during the annual French Quarter Festival which is a 2-day music and food festival held outside across multiple stages throughout the French Quarter and the Mississippi Riverfront area.
5. Invited guests/forensic speakers – Invited national forensic speakers are brought in to ELMHS on a regular basis on select topics or to assist in training. Past speakers have included Dr. Richard Rogers, the developer of the ECST-R and Dr. Jesse Ventura, the developer of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS).
