Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP)

Catalog description

The Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) Elective gives the student the unique opportunity to participate in the evaluation, diagnosis, and the short-term treatment planning for patients in the Bellevue Psychiatry Emergency Room. Under close supervision by the faculty and staff of this service, the student gains experience in interviewing, diagnosing, and managing the acute psychiatric patient. The student sees a very wide range of pathology from adjustment disorders to frank psychoses to complex multi-system illnesses. Students work with the attending psychiatrists as well as the Director of the Bellevue Psychiatry Emergency Services.