At the RAMS Outpatient Clinic, we have several ongoing Case Conferences, each with a different focus and a different audience:
The monthly Adult Clinical Case Conference is conducted as a Staff In-Service Training (10:30-12:00 on the first Wednesday of the month) and involves interns, trainees, and the staff of the Adult Outpatient Clinic. The Director of the Adult Outpatient Clinic and the Director of Training oversee this conference.
The monthly Child Youth and Family Clinical Case Conference is conducted during the Wednesday Staff In-Service Trainings (9:10-10:30 on the last Wednesday of each month) and includes interns, trainees, outpatient child therapists and school-based clinical staff. The Director of Children, Youth & Family Services and the Director of Training oversee this conference.
Both In-Service Case Conferences usually involve an external discussant who moderates the discussion. Typically, the discussants represent psychodynamic/psychoanalytic approach to therapy, however, depending on the nature of the case and requests of the presenter, other arrangements can be made. RAMS clinicians take turn presenting their cases and each pre-doctoral intern is expected to present at least one adult and one child case in this format. For practicum trainees, such presentations are optional, but highly encouraged.
For the current and past schedules of the In-service Child and Adult Case Conferences, please click here.
The Intern and Trainee Clinical Case Conference is held at 10:25-11:55 every Tuesday in the second semester (during the first semester, the Intern and Trainee Seminar is run as a didactic clinical training and a seminar on cultural self-awareness in clinical settings).
This conference is overseen by the Director of Training and involves practicum trainees and predoctoral interns only; there are no external discussants. Interns and trainees present their own cases to the group, but also to use this case conference as an opportunity to practice their proto-supervisory skills. Predoctoral interns are also expected to serve as co-facilitators; towards the end of the training year each of them has a chance to facilitate one session of this case conference on their own.
To download the format for a case presentation write-up that is utilized in the Intern and Trainee Clinical Case Conference, please click here.
For more information about our case conferences, click here.
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