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Year 5 Medicine.
Contact: A 9-week period of clinical clerking.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject, students should: have established a core knowledge of general psychiatry; have learned skills in interviewing and in the evaluation of the patients mental state; have become familiar with principles of supportive care and gained experience in counselling, and the principles of behaviour therapy including cognitive behaviour therapy; understand the principles of physical treatment in psychiatry including pharmacotherapy; have developed an understanding of the problems that people with emotional or psychiatric disturbances present and have developed a positive attitude toward assisting them by the application of appropriate skills and knowledge.
Content:
Involvement with patient care and the families of the patient; experience in liaison psychiatry, the study of problems of patients in the general hospital wards in addition to the care of patients in psychiatric units. The development process through the ages and stages of life: natal factors, infancy, pre-school, school age, adolescence, adulthood and old age. The interaction of the psychiatric patient and family. The social and cultural aspects of psychiatry. Psychiatric diagnosis; history taking, psychiatric examination and interviewing techniques; ability to establish rapport with patients and family. Common disorders requiring care at a family doctor level. Important and serious psychiatric disorders; chronic psychiatric disorders. Referral to psychiatrists. Social, psychological and physical methods of treatment. The impact of the community on the psychiatric patient and the patients family. Hospital and community resources. Psychiatric hospitals and clinics, mental hospitals; day care facilities, training centres and rehabilitation units.
Assessment:
Continuous internal assessment including contributions to clinical presentations, and other teaching activities; a written case history in the 5th week; a one and a quarter hours mental and physical assessment of a long psychiatric case followed by a 10 minute case presentation, and a 15-20 minute clinical examination based on the case. This long case assessment will be held during the last week of the psychiatric placement along with a 3-hour end of subject written examination. Students must pass both the clinical case presentation/examination and the written examination to pass the subject.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (Volume 4 page 138)
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