462 psychiatry course

462 Psych
Course Name: Psychiatry
Course Code & No: 462 Psych  
 
Credits: 4 ( 2+2 )
 
Duration: 5 weeks  
   
Study Year: 4^th Year       
 

INTRODUCTION
 
We welcome you to course 462 Psych (the clinical psychiatry course) and we hope it will be an enjoyable and stimulating educational experience. This course aims at studying psychiatry as one of the most rapidly growing specialties of medicine in our country and the world. Thus, you will learn basic psychiatric knowledge and clinical skills that will enable you to function at the level of primary care and emergency psychiatry and take safe decisions when assessing and treating psychiatric patients. This will be accomplished through a variety of educational activities.
 
We expect full commitment and punctuality in the course activities and high respect towards people with psychiatric problems.
 
This manual is written in details for the tutors and students to strictly adhere and comply with to maintain the excellence of the teaching process.
 
 
 
 
 


OBJECTIVES
 
To provide the undergraduate medical students with 1-knowledge  2-attitude  3- clinical skills relevant to clinical psychiatry and essential for their future career as non-psychiatric clinicians in whatever specialty they choose.
 
1-    Knowledge:
To acquire basic essential facts in clinical psychiatry that includes:
a.     Phenomenological psychopathology (signs and symptoms) of psychiatric disorders.
b.     Classification and etiology in clinical psychiatry (bio-psycho-social).
c.      Common psychiatric disorders:
·        Clinical features and course.
·        Epidemiology and etiology.
·        Differential diagnosis.
·        Treatment (bio-psycho-social) and prognosis.
d.     Treatment modalities in psychiatry:
·        Physical: pharmacotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and others.
·        Psychological: behavioral, cognitive, supportive psychotherapy and others.
 
2-    Attitude:
To develop the scientific attitude towards:
a.     Psychiatric patients and their families
b.     Psychiatric interventions (bio-psycho-social)
c.      Mental health and providers (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and others)
d.     Psychiatry as a branch of medicine.
 
3-    Clinical Skills:
a.     To conduct a full psychiatric interview with:
·        Proper interview techniques and skills.
·        Sufficient psychiatric history.
·        Standard “mental state examination”.
b.     To present a diagnostic formulation for common psychiatric disorders based on the most recent classificatory systems in psychiatry.
c.      To set an outline of a management plan for common psychiatric disorders following the bio-psycho-social approach (both short and long term).
d.     To assess and appropriately refer psychiatric patients in the primary care settings.

1. To assess and deal competently and safely with psychiatric emergencies.
2. To assess and dispose properly consultation-liaison cases.

 
 
COURSE OVERVIEW  
 
 
The course lasts for 6 weeks (including consolidation and examination weeks) during which varieties of educational activities are conducted to fulfill the objectives of the course with great emphasis on the applied clinical psychiatry. These activities are namely:
 
1.     Cognitive Disorders Theme
2.     Psychotic Disorders Theme
3.     Mood Disorders Theme
4.     Anxiety Disorders Theme
5.     Child Psychiatry Theme
6.     Clinical Activities (in-patient, outpatient, consultation-liaison, child psychiatry) include clinical cases log with a help of an assigned supervisor