Clinical Clerkship: Psychiatry

Catalog description

This five-week clerkship provides students with opportunities to evaluate psychiatric patients through diagnostic interviewing and conduct of mental status exams. Emphasis is on the role of psychiatry in primary care: i.e., the identification of psychiatric problems in general medical practice. Students gain experience in the indications for major psychopharmacological agents, psycho- logical interventions, DSM-IV classifications, and substance abuse management—all within a broad biopsychosocial framework.