Psychiatry Advanced

Catalog description

This is an advanced 4-week elective that seeks to build on psychiatric knowledge and experiences gained in the pre-clerkship and clerkship years. Students will be expected to serve at the level of a sub-intern. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the core principles, foundational knowledge, and essential skills relevant to the specialty through encounters with a diverse range of cases reflective of this specialty. Students will gain increased knowledge of psychopathology, psychiatric diagnosis, and psychotherapeutics. During the 4-week advanced elective, students will experience the evaluation and management of psychiatric inpatients representing a broad range of psychiatric disturbances. Students will also join the departmental PGY2 didactics and Grand Rounds, as outlined below.