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Psychiatric Clerkship: Resource Library for Medical Students
Welcome to our Psychiatric Clerkship: Resource Library for Medical Students. This library provides a comprehensive set of resources to assist medical students with their psychiatry training. The resources are organized in modules and lessons providing knowledge and guidance to develop skills in topics that range from Psychopathology and Psychiatric Disorders to clinical skills specific to psychiatry, such as history-taking and clinical reasoning.
This library was developed based on the “Clinical Learning Objectives Guide for Psychiatry Education of Medical Students,” created by the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP). Like all NextGenU.org materials, this library was developed as a joint effort of expert instructional designers and subject matter experts in psychiatry and addiction. The subject matter experts involved in reviewing these materials are Scott Oakman MD, Ph.D.; Eduardo Bianco MD, MSc; Lucia Villalba MD; Gabriel Rossi MD; and Magali Collonnaz MD, MPH, MSc. Our instructional designers participating in the development of this library are Hugo Rojas, MD, MSc, DiplEd; Carolina Bustillos, MD, DiplEd; Pablo Baldiviezo, MD, DiplEd; and Reisha Narine, MSc, BSc.
This library is sponsored by the Annenberg Physician Training Program in Addiction Medicine. It uses resources from accredited, world-class organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, Association of American Medical Colleges, Cambridge University, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and National Institute of Mental Health, among others.
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This library is divided into five modules:
- Module 1: Psychopathology and Psychiatric Disorders
- Module 2: Disease Prevention, Therapeutics, and Management
- Module 3: Professionalism, Ethics, and the Law
- Module 4: COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Module 5: Clinical Skills
Engaging with this library:
You may browse these resources for free; there are no requirements. We hope that you will find this a rewarding learning experience. Subscribe to our newsletter to be notified of future updates, including interactive case studies and quizzes to complement this library.
This course is sponsored by the Annenberg Physician Training Program: Abstinence-based Recovery from Addictive Disease. Click here to see curricular threading related to mental health disorders.
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Module 1: Psychopathology and Psychiatric Disorders
This module provides the learner with a comprehensive overview of a range of psychiatric disorders according to DSM-5 criteria, including common signs and symptoms, making initial assessments, and successful referral, treatment, and management strategies. -
Module 1: Lesson 1: Cognitive Disorders
This lesson provides the learner with resources that allow one to make initial assessments of cognitive disorders, examine underlying conditions and causes, appropriately utilize cognitive assessment tools, account for language and cultural variations, and successfully manage, treat, and refer patients with cognitive disorders.
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Module 1: Lesson 2: Substance Use Disorders
This lesson provides the learner with resources that allows one to recognize the signs and symptoms of Substance Use Disorders, make initial assessments, examine underlying conditions and successfully manage, treat and refer patients with Substance Use Disorders.20 URLs -
Module 1: Lesson 3: Psychosis Spectrum Disorders
This lesson provides the learner with resources that allows one to recognize the signs and symptoms of possible Psychotic Disorders, make initial assessments, examine underlying conditions and successfully manage, treat and refer patients with psychotic disorders.19 URLs -
Module 1: Lesson 4: Mood Disorders
This lesson provides the learner with resources that allows one to recognize signs and symptoms of possible Mood Disorders, make initial assessments, examine underlying conditions, assess the risk of suicidal and homicidal behavior, and successfully manage, treat and refer patients with mood disorders.20 URLs -
Module 1: Lesson 5: Anxiety Disorders
This lesson provides the learner with resources to recognize signs and symptoms of anxiety, become familiar with the diagnostic criteria for various anxiety disorders, make initial assessments, examine possible emergent underlying conditions, and successfully manage, treat and refer patients with anxiety disorders.11 URLs -
Module 1: Lesson 6: Somatoform Disorders, Factitious Disorder and Malingering
This lesson provides the learner with resources that allows one to recognize signs and symptoms of possible Somatoform Disorders, Factitious Disorder, and Malingering, make initial assessments, examine underlying pathology, and successfully manage, treat and refer patients with these disorders.7 URLs -
Module 1: Lesson 7: Dissociative and Amnestic Disorders
This lesson provides the learner with resources to recognize indicative signs and symptoms of dissociative and amnestic disorders to evaluate, refer and treat them successfully.9 URLs -
Module 1: Lesson 8: Eating Disorders
This lesson provides the learner with resources to recognize the signs and symptoms of an eating disorder and successfully refer, evaluate, and treat them.8 URLs -
Module 1: Lesson 9: Sexual Disorders
This lesson provides the learner with resources to recognize the signs and symptoms of sexual disorders and obtain an accurate sexual history to refer, evaluate and treat successfully.12 URLs -
Module 1: Lesson 10: Sleep Disorders
This lesson provides the learner with resources to recognize the signs and symptoms of sleep disorders, and obtain an accurate sleep history to refer, evaluate and manage them successfully.8 URLs -
Module 1: Lesson 11: Personality Disorders
This lesson provides the learner with resources to recognize signs and symptoms suggestive of personality disorders, assess how these disorders may complicate treatment efforts, to refer, evaluate and treat them successfully.13 URLs -
Module 1: Lesson 12: Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
This lesson provides the learner with resources to be knowledgeable about child development, obtain an accurate developmental history, perform an age-appropriate mental status, and recognize signs and symptoms associated with psychiatric disorders to refer, evaluate and manage them successfully.12 URLs -
Module 1: Lesson 13: Geriatric Psychiatry
This lesson provides the learner with resources to recognize signs and symptoms suggestive of mental disorders in a culturally competent manner, know the physiological and sociocultural changes accompanying aging, to refer, evaluate, and treat them successfully.10 URLs -
Module 1: Lesson 14: Adjustment Disorders
This lesson provides the learner with resources to recognize signs and symptoms associated with an adjustment disorder, provide support, and refer, evaluate, and treat them successfully.5 URLs, 1 Quiz -
Module 2: Disease Prevention, Therapeutics, and Management
This module provides a comprehensive overview of disease prevention and a range of therapeutics and management strategies.
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Module 2: Lesson 1: Prevention
This lesson provides the learner with resources to be knowledgeable about the necessary preventative strategies in decreasing the occurrence of illness, reducing the duration of diseases, and minimizing the associated disability of medical conditions.18 URLs -
Module 2: Lesson 2: Pharmacological Therapies
This lesson provides the learner with resources to know the indications, contraindications, presumed mechanism of action, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, common and serious adverse effects of psychotropic drugs, and its interactions with disease and other drugs.21 URLs -
Module 2: Lesson 3: Brain Stimulation Therapies
This lesson provides the learner with resources to recognize and refer patients for an ECT or further evaluation to treat psychiatric disorders via alternative brain stimulation therapies that are approved and accepted for general use.5 URLs -
Module 2: Lesson 4: Psychotherapies
This lesson provides the learner with resources to understand psychotherapy, the different types of psychotherapy, its relevant principles to the doctor-patient relationship, and evidence-based psychotherapy for treating particular disorders.19 URLs -
Module 2: Lesson 5: Multidisciplinary Treatment Planning and Collaborative Management
This lesson provides the learner with resources to collaborate effectively with other physicians in different specialties, other healthcare workers in various disciplines, and the patient’s family to optimal clinical outcomes.11 URLs -
Module 2: Lesson 6: Complementary and Alternative Treatments
This lesson provides the learner with resources to understand the use of Complementary and Alternative treatment modalities across all cultures and age groups and supporting evidence for its use and possible adverse effects.5 URLs, 1 Quiz -
Module 3: Professionalism, Ethics and the Law
This module provides a comprehensive overview of professionalism and ethics in a clinical setting, including medical-legal issues in psychiatry and cultural competence and mental health disparities.
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Module 3: Lesson 1: Professionalism
This lesson provides the learner with resources to demonstrate high quality, unbiased care for mentally ill patients, detect medical conditions in psychiatric illnesses, develop patient advocate skills, discuss patient boundaries, and promote a positive learning environment.14 URLs -
Module 3: Lesson 2: Medical Ethics
This lesson provides the learner with resources to identify and discuss issues of ethical concern, ethically risky and problematic situations in patient care, and how one’s knowledge and attitudes influence care and one’s area of clinical competence.8 URLs -
Module 3: Lesson 3: Medical-Legal Issues in Psychiatry
This lesson provides the learner with resources to screen and address suspected abuse in vulnerable populations, discuss the role of the physician in treating and managing abuse, and civil commitment, recognize the variations in state law, the implications of the voluntary and involuntary status of a patient; discuss the elements of informed consent, evaluation of decision-making capacity, the principles and process of the physicians “duty to warn” obligation, and discuss breach of confidentiality.12 URLs -
Module 3: Lesson 4: Cultural Competence and Mental Health Disparities
This lesson provides the learner with resources to discuss mental health care disparities, stereotypes, biases, and prejudices experienced by multi-cultural backgrounds and how to elicit the practices of those communities; and incorporate cultural information and the DSM- V elements into the assessment of assigned patients.11 URLs, 1 Quiz -
Module 4: COVID-19 and Mental Health
This module provides a
comprehensive overview of the impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health, including the likelihood of developing neuropsychiatric symptoms during and after infection. -
Module 4: Lesson 1: Pandemic Consequences on Mental Health
This lesson provides the learner with resources to understand the immediate and long-term consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on various aspects of mental health.31 URLs
