Course Information
Description
The Core Clerkship in Psychiatry will expose students to a wide range of psychiatric presentations in order to facilitate recognition and management of psychiatric disorders encountered in the practice of medicine. Students will be integrated into clinical psychiatry teams in a range of inpatient and outpatient settings. Diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic considerations will be emphasized. Students will work with clinical psychiatry faculty, residents, and/or fellows who will oversee their clinical work and provide assessment and feedback on their performance. Additional teaching will be done through case discussion and structured teaching sessions.
Students complete the NBME Clinical Psychiatry Subject Exam as part of their final assessment. The Psychiatry core clerkship learning objectives and student assessments are the same across sites.
Class Notes
The Core Clerkship in Psychiatry will expose students to a wide range of psychiatric presentations in order to facilitate recognition and management of psychiatric disorders encountered in the practice of medicine. Students will be integrated into clinical psychiatry teams in a range of inpatient and outpatient settings. Diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic considerations will be emphasized. Students will work with clinical psychiatry faculty, residents, and/or fellows who will oversee their clinical work and provide assessment and feedback on their performance. Additional teaching will be done through case discussion and structured teaching sessions. Students complete the NBME Clinical Psychiatry Subject Exam as part of their final assessment. The Psychiatry core clerkship learning objectives and student assessments are the same across sites. McLean: The clerkship rotation at McLean is designed to balance an in-depth experience in direct care of psychiatric patients as well as breadth of other clinical experiences to see the broad spectrum of psychiatric care. Medical students will spend the majority of their time on an inpatient psychiatric unit either specializing in depression and anxiety disorders (AB1) or psychotic disorders (AB2). These experiences are balanced with clinical encounters in the Clinical Evaluations Center, electroconvulsive therapy observation, interviewing seminars to hone interview skills, Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) for psychotic disorders in an outpatient setting, as well as didactic instruction on a broad range of topics. Additional experiences in other clinical departments (partial hospital, substance disorders, adolescent partial) can be arranged.
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