Behavioral Health Clerkship

Catalog description

The five-week clerkship course in behavioral and mental health provides an opportunity to apply general principles of psychiatry learned in the didactic year curriculum. The student is provided with practical clinical experience in identifying, evaluating, managing and referring patients presenting with common and/or emergent psychiatric problems. Students develop skills in performing mental status examinations and gathering a thorough psychiatric database. The student is exposed to management regimens and made aware of community-based mental health referral facilities that may be utilized in the treatment of the psychiatric patient.