Upper Peninsula Health Education Corporation

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Advanced Adult Psychiatry Elective
PSC 609B

Prerequisite: Fourth year medical students who have successfully completed their basic Psychiatry clerkship.

Objectives:

• Gain a clear sense of the satisfaction and challenges of the practice of psychiatry.
• Enhance skills and confidence in the comprehensive evaluation of new patients.
• Increase the ability to devise comprehensive biopsychosocial formulations of patients.
• Gain experience in conducting short-term supportive and problem-focused psychotherapy.
• Gain experience in psychiatric consultation for medical/surgical inpatients.

Students work with psychiatrists on the inpatient adult unit. Students evaluate new patients referred for psychiatric consultation and conduct supportive and problem-focused psychotherapy. Students are encouraged to participate in group activities on the unit.

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