Core Clerkship Psychiatry
PS 500M
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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 HMS Cambridge Integrated Clerkship (CIC) is a year-long longitudinal integrated clerkship at Cambridge Health, an academic urban public-sector community health system. The CIC emphasizes continuity of care with patients and continuity of supervision by attending teaching faculty. Clerkship students follow patients longitudinally, engaging in their care across different specialties and learning in all clerkship areas simultaneously throughout the year.
In the HMS CIC Psychiatry clerkship students work closely with a psychiatry attending physician (“preceptor”) and follow a panel of psychiatric patients with their preceptor over the year. In addition to robust ambulatory experiences, in which students have active, authentic roles in care, students also rotate through acute psychiatry services, including inpatient psychiatry and psychiatric emergency services. Students take part in tutorial sessions throughout the year that emphasize integrated care of patients, clinical reasoning for psychiatric formulation, and approaches for care of mental health issues that arise in other specialty disciplines. Students also engage in an interactive series that advances psychiatric content mastery in preparation for the “shelf” exam and to build core knowledge and skills in support of successful psychiatry careers and successful careers in all disciplines.
Students complete the NBME Clinical Psychiatry Subject Exam as part of their final assessment. The Psychiatry clerkship learning objectives and student assessments are the same at all PCE sites.
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