Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Catalog description

Credits 0 to 10. 0 to 10 Other Hours. 2- or 4-week elective; introduction to child psychiatry; the process of child psychiatric evaluation; introduction to issues related to diagnostic classification in children and adolescents; exposure to various treatment modalities used in child psychiatry, including exposure to the issues surrounding the use of psychotropic medications in children. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of year three of the medical school curriculum.