Emily Katz, MD FAAP
Chief Resident
Ditto to what Brady said about why Brown is an outstanding place to train. Excellent teaching faculty, one-of-a-kind training and research opportunities, lots of elective time, no overnight call, easy and well-paid moonlighting if you want it, fun city, affordable housing, and wonderful colleagues—what more could you ask for? Choosing to come to Brown was one of the better decisions I have ever made.
As for those structured clinical opportunities that Brady made reference to, here is a brief synopsis of my year:
So far, I have spent my mornings on a whirlwind tour of our partial hospital programs. I started with an elective rotation in peripartum psychiatry at Women and Infants’ Day Hospital Program—-the country’s only partial program for pregnant or post-partum women and their infants. From there it was onto an effort to stretch my clinical comfort zone with an elective at that Bradley Pediatric Partial Program (an intensive diagnostic and family-based treatment unit for children between 6 months and 6 years of age). Currently, I am doing an extended rotation on the unit that was one of Brown's main draws for me--the Hasbro Pediatric Partial Program. For anyone who is at all interested in the intersection between medical and psychiatric illness, this is an ideal place to train. For those who may have other clinical interests, the Hasbro Partial Program still offers trainees the chance to treat complex and challenging patients and their families under the supervision of some great clincians.
My afternoons are split between training with Dr. Spirito’s research team to provide CBT to depressed adolescents, continuing with my individual psychotherapy patients, soaking up the wisdom of Dr. Karyn Horowitz in her medication clinic, and participating in a new family therapy clinic where I am able to do co-therapy with one of our division’s most senior clinicians.
As for how I'll choose to spend the rest of the year...well, I'm still trying to figure that out. It will be a challenge my grandmother would call a delightful dilemma.
If you have any questions about our program or would like to speak with any of our trainees, please don't hesitate to contact me or Brady. We'd love to hear from you.