Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, one of the most long-standing and prestigious academic psychiatry programs in the US, treats mood, anxiety, eating, attention deficit, personality, and other disorders. They offer expertise in illnesses across the lifespan and an approach that is sensitive to everyone’s life context. This week, the OMI was pleased to host the 28th Salzburg Weill Cornell Seminar in Psychiatry at Schloss Arenberg.
Dr. John W. Barnhill, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Dr. W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker, President of the Medical University of Innsbruck, led the course together again this year. Dr. Jonathan Avery, Dr. Richard A. Friedman, Dr. Alison Hermann and Dr. Anna Buchheim joined them to teach for the OMI. 33 fellows from 24 countries were eager to hear the latest updates in psychiatry.
In addition to the many informal conversations among the fellows and faculty, the 2023 course curriculum offered a wide variety of classes that focused on acuity, with an emphasis on situations that can make clinicians uncomfortable. These included working with people who are pregnant, for example, and people whose mental illness has been treatment resistant or who have a problem with substance use and addiction. Other lectures focused on physician burnout, working with dying people, and the ways in which attachment theory underlies psychotherapy.
- 33 fellows
- 24 countries
- 1 workshop on attachement theory and psychotherapy
On Thursday, Dr. Buchheim led a workshop on attachment theory and psychotherapy, equipping fellows with theoretical knowledge and showing them videos from her own clinical practice to demonstrate the different concepts of attachment.
John W. Barnhill, MD
OMI Course Director
