Classes are scheduled for one hour a day, four to five days per week throughout the year. Formal didactic activities include courses on:

• Child and adolescent development
• Psychiatric evaluation and diagnostic interviewing of infants, toddlers, school-age children and adolescents
• Psychological and neuropsychological testing
• Psychiatric disorders of infancy, childhood, and adolescence
• Treatment modalities, including individual psychotherapy (supportive, psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral and interpersonal), behavior therapy, group therapy, family therapy, and psychopharmacology
• Clinical case conferences
• Principles of pediatric, school and community consultation
• Ethical, legal and administrative issues
• Neuroscience and genetics
• Research methodology and clinical statistics
• Practicum in clinical research and other scholarly projects
• Monthly journal club in which recent research papers are reviewed and discussed.
• Grand rounds