Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Catalog description

For students interested in psychiatry, this is an opportunity to gain experience in the psychiatric care of medically complicated patients admitted to medical and surgical services. Students can expect to see a wide range of psychopathology and learn about myriad clinical issues involving the interplay of psychiatry, ethics, medico-legal, end-of-life care, hospital systems and decision-making capacity. The student works with Psychiatry residents, CL fellows, and CL attendings whom have a wide range of clinical expertise including addiction psychiatry, transplant psychiatry, infectious disease, palliative care, and reproductive psychiatry. In addition to the individual supervision, the student participates in regularly scheduled rounds, clinical case conferences, journal club, and consultation-liaison seminars.