Psychiatry

Catalog description

This four-week clerkship provides students with opportunities to evaluate patients with psychiatric illness, and conduct patient interviews and mental status exams. The student will develop skills to formulate an appropriate differential diagnosis, to make a diagnosis, and to propose treatment options in patient care situations. Clerkship experience opportunities include hospital and outpatient settings. Students will learn to apply knowledge about psychopharmacologic agents and will gain experience in indications for psychological testing, interventions, and other options for therapy, and substance abuse/addiction management.