Clinical: Behavioral Medicine

Catalog description

This clerkship involves active participation in patient care in an outpatient and/or inpatient psychiatric/behavioral medicine setting. It is a hands-on experience that emphasizes patient history, physical exam, assessment, and plan within a framework of disease processes and therapeutics in psychiatry/behavioral health. It includes determination of which labs, imaging, and diagnostics to order, interpreting those results, and understanding their impact on the differential diagnosis. The focus is on effective and meaningful patient interaction, and functioning as an essential part of the behavioral medicine/psychiatric team. It further explores medical documentation, oral patient presentation, and all aspects of patient management and treatment.