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2018-2019 School of Medicine Bulletin 
    
 
  Dec 17, 2024
 
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NPSY G710 - Focus on Psychiatry

Credits: 2

Inpatient and outpatient opportunities exist for electives in Psychiatry and subspecialties in child/adolescent and geropsychiatry. The content of this course is designed to provide the student a broader experience in comprehensive psychiatric patient evaluation and treatment. He/she will be assigned to a practicing psychiatrist within a variety of inpatient, outpatient, emergency and consultative fields. The presenting problems of patients include personality disorders, acute psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, psychosomatic illness, organic brain syndrome and substance abuse disorders. The student will be responsible for intake assessments, to include a mental status examination. He/she will also participate in the decision-making processes and in continuity of care. Additional assignments will be made to specialized treatment programs including individual and family psychotherapy. The student may see outpatients being treated at the Brownell Center collocated with Marshall I. Pickens Hospital. Additionally, rotations may occur at the Piedmont Mental Health Center located in Simpsonville, near Hillcrest Hospital. Additional inpatient rotations may be at Marshall I. Pickens Hospital or Harris Psychiatric Hospital in Anderson. Consultation and emergency services are located at Greenville Memorial Medical Center. The course is designed to provide the student with maximum patient contact. Reviews of interviewing techniques and the principles of general psychiatry with the introduction of individual and family psychotherapy techniques will complement the student’s clinical contact with patients. The student will be evaluated by both his/her preceptors and the Clerkship Director for Psychiatry or his designee. Input will be obtained from the other health professionals with whom the student has worked. Additionally, successful completion of the stated objectives will be required to pass this course.  



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