Clinical Psychiatry

Catalog description

The Psychiatry rotation is done in a variety of settings including hospital or ambulatory psychiatric facility settings. All experiences, regardless of setting have the goal of introducing the most common patients cared for by the primary care physician, often in consult or co-management with a psychiatrist. To avoid redundancy, topics are removed where they are also covered in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine. In this setting students learn to diagnose and manage common acute and chronic psychiatric conditions that are present in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. Students must also learn to discriminate emergent conditions from non-emergent ones. Students should begin to acquire the essential knowledge to practice cost effective health care and standards of care. •