Education Coordinator: Paul Lessem, M.D.
Duration: One month
Maximum number of student per four-week period: One
Candidates: Senior students of approved medical schools
Description:
The course will run for four consecutive weeks and the student is under the direct supervision of the chairman and educational coordinator of the Department of Psychiatry.
The principle purpose of this course is to give the student training in the clinical aspects of psychiatry including the diagnosis and therapeutic management of psychiatric cases in a modern general hospital.
The student is assigned to the staff psychiatrists to receive individualized supervision in the study and responsibilities of in-service patients, the evaluation and treatment of outpatient problems, and firsthand practice with psychiatric manifestations in the Emergency Room.
Didactic lectures are given lasting from one to two hours and are accompanied by clinical demonstrations. Topics include:
- Nature of psychiatry and the meaning of emotional illness
- The mental examination
- The problem of anxiety as it related to the neurosis
- The psychotic ego: a) Schizophrenia; b) Other Types
- Affective disorders
- Character disorders
- The automatic nervous system and the body
- Common neuroses of childhood
- Crisis and emergency psychiatry
- The psychotherapies
The student rotates at the Day Treatment Center, Outpatient Clinic, and the inpatient service.
The student attends Psychiatric conferences on the units and participates in clinical care presentation.
