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Consult-Liaison Psychiatry Externship


PSRY 5002

Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator

Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: All Months

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.

Psychiatry Off-Campus Externship


PSRY 5005

This course requires application using VSLO. Off-Campus add form required.

Category: Clinical
Classification: Off-campus
Contact: Clerkship 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.

Eating Disorders Externship


PSRY 5007

Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator

Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: Varies check with Coordinator

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.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Externship


PSRY 5023

Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Campus Coordinator

Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: Not offered at this time.


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.

HIV & LGTBQ+ Mental Health


PSRY 5028

Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator

Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: Varies check with Coordinator


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.

Psychiatry Research


PSRY 5040

Category: Non-Clinical Research
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: 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.

Addiction Psychiatry


PSRY 5041

Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator

Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: All months except July


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 Wellstar MCG Health, Stoney Outpatient Clinic, and Hope House residential treatment center.

Emergency Psychiatry Externship


PSRY 5043

Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship 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.

Neurostimulation Externship


PSRY 5044

Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship 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.

Advanced Psychiatry Externship


PSRY 5045

Category: Clinical
Classification: 4 Weeks
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Campus Coordinator

Eligible: Clerkship +
Months Offered: Not offered at this time


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.

Mood Disorders Externship


PSRY 5046

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.

Psychiatry Child& Adolescent Sub-I


PSRY 5047

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NOT OFFERED AT THIS TIME.

 

General Psychiatry Sub-I


PSRY 5048

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