We offer many elective courses during the senior year to best serve each student’s individual needs and goals. Students with well-defined career goals and those who are still in the process of choosing a specific area to focus on have a wide assortment of electives to choose from. Most courses are two or four weeks in duration.
Students are also encouraged to approach faculty members for the development of unique courses.
| Department: | Psychiatry |
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| Course Number: | PSY-4004 |
| Course Name: | Psychiatry Consult/Liaison Service |
| Instructors: | Dr. Robin Tassinari |
| Course Description: | Prerequisites: Successful completion of 3rd year. Course Description: Focuses on the psychiatric evaluation of medical and surgical patients with emphasis on the psychological problems encountered in their management. Course includes attending conferences and assigned readings. The focus is the teaching of Psychiatry in a medical context and the study of the entire patient and his/her illness from the biopsychosocial point of view. A major part of the course experience is the experience of the psychiatric interview in a medical setting. |
| Educational Objectives: | The student will: 1. Demonstrate skill in providing compassionate, appropriate psychiatric patient care in inpatient medical and surgical patients. 2. Define the basic aspects of delirium, dementia, psychosis, affective, anxiety, somatoform, and substance abuse disorders. 3. Demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills through the interviewing of patients, as well as through interactions with the consulting team, staff on other services, support staff, residents, and supervising attendings. |
| Types of Patients: | Inpatient and outpatient (Emergency Room) medical and surgical patients with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses including affective disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, delirium, dementia, somatoform disorders, and patients with substance abuse issues. |
| Teaching Sessions /Conferences: | CL case conference, Psychiatry Grand Rounds, as well as relevant presentations/grand rounds on other services. Teaching sessions are daily by both attendings and focus on specific cases/psychopathology seen on the service. |
| Resources /Readings: | Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation Liaison Psychiatry (Psychiatry online) |
| Evaluation Method(s): | Direct Observation, Conference Participation, Mid-Rotation Feedback |
| Contact Information: | Coordinator: Peggy Cooke, [email protected], 518-262-5511 |
| Period(s) Available: | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 |
| Available Length: | 4 weeks |
| Max Students: | 2 |
| Visiting Students: | No |