Advanced Clerkship in Inpatient Psychiatry
PS 512M.3
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Description
Students may add themselves to the waiting list for this course during add/drop periods but not during lottery periods. Please contact Dr. Samuel Kohrman, skohrman@mgh.harvard.edu, for approval to enroll. In the setting of MGH's locked 24-bed general hospital psychiatric unit, students care for patients, age 18 to geriatric, with acute psychiatric presentations often in the context of previous mental illness or comorbid medical illness. The student joins an attending-resident team, rounds each morning, and participates in the evaluation of new patients and closely follows team patients. Patients have a range of diagnoses seen in the general hospital: major depressive disorder, first-episode psychoses, complex medical and psychiatric-illness interactions, treatment-resistant psychiatric illness. With supervision from attending and resident, they help to manage the diagnostic evaluation and formulation of treatment plans that include somatic treatments and psychotherapies. They participate with residents and other medical students in conferences and lectures.
Not Available for Cross Registration
Open to Domestic Visiting Students
