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Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Campus Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: August - June
Course Description: During this course students will see consultation cases from various departments, review chart work, and discuss cases during rounds with the consult physicians. This course is designed to give students the opportunity to learn directly about the medicine/psychiatry interface.
This course requires application using VSAS or other arrangements made by the student. Off-Campus add form required.
Category: Clinical
Classification: Off-campus
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Months Offered: all
Course Description: This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to work in rotations at other institutions or with individual psychiatrists.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Campus Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: As arranged with faculty
Course Description: During this course students will observe and participate in initial
assessments and evaluations of patients with eating disorders and individual and group
psychotherapy, as well as psychopharmacological management and medical assessment
and treatment of inpatients and outpatients with eating disorders.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Campus Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: All
Course Description: Students will participate as a member of a multidisciplinary treatment
team in the evaluation and management of children and adolescents with varying severities
of psychiatric illness. They will be involved in individual, family, and group treatment
modalities, didactic presentations on topics in child and adolescent psychiatry. This
rotation involves experiences in consultation/liaison, residential inpatient, and
outpatient clinic with others as available or as per interests of the student.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Campus Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: Feb-April, Aug-Nov
Course Description: During this course students will participate in the treatment
of individuals infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS through assessment, individual
and family therapy, and psychological consultation in several HIV/AIDS treatment environments.
Category: Non-Clinical Research
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Department Faculty, Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Campus Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: All
Course Description: During this course students will review current literature, summarizing
it as appropriate for departmental journal club, case conference or any other appropriate
venue, develop and work on a portion of or a full independent research project under
the supervision of a faculty mentor.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: All
Course Description: The addiction medicine elective provides experience in multiple
settings including hospital-based consults, outpatient medication assisted treatment
and residential treatment. There is a wide variety of patients including underserved,
e.g., substance abusing pregnant women in treatment with their children. You will
be working with Addiction Medicine physicians and fellows as well as psychiatry residents.
Students will rotate at AUMC & Clinics as well as Hope House residential treatment center.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Campus Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: All
Course Description: During this course students will observe and participate in patient
evaluation, verbal and written patient case presentation including documentation in
medical records, and psychotherapy techniques frequently used in emergencies: supportive,
de-briefing, etc. The course is designed to introduce the medical student to the fundamentals
of emergency psychiatry.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Campus Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: All
Course Description: Students are expected to attend all ECT sessions during the rotation.
Students will also participate in clinic, and will assist with ECT and TMS consultations,
procedures, aftercare management, verification and authorization as necessary.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Campus Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: All
Course Description: This course is designed for students interested in Psychiatry
to prepare them for internship. During the rotation, students will collaborate as
a member of an interprofessional team and demonstrate ability to act as primary clinician
for patients under attending supervision. They will be expected to demonstrate proficiency
in conducting initial assessments and evaluations and to distinguish appropriate psychopharmacological,
somatic treatments, and psychotherapy for psychiatric disorders.
Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Coordinator
Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: NOT OFFERED AT THIS TIME.
Course Description: Students will observe and participate in initial assessments and evaluations of outpatient adults with various mood disorders, perform psychopharmacological management and medical assessment and treatment, direct patient care, participate in team meetings and group therapy, and attend associated didactic learning activities.
