Being familiar with the more common medical and surgical disorders, together with their evaluation criteria
Elements of Psychiatry is a three months clinical course that provides 4th year students with a solid foundation in the fundamentals of the evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and appropriate referral of patients with mental health disorders. All major psychiatric diagnostic categories will be addressed, including the basis for a rational pharmacological and psychoterapeutic treatment, recalling basic communication skills. Though the focus is primarily on adults, there will be exposure to the care of adolescents when possible.
About the bio-psycho-social foundation of clinical medicine
Patient evaluation and assessment
Community mental health care
Schizofrenia and other psychotic disorders
Affective (mood) disorders
Suicide and parasuicide
Anxiety disorders
Organic psychiatric disorders
Mental retardation
Autism spectrum disorders
Substance misuse
Eating, sleep, sexual disorders
Voluntary vs compulsory treatment
Psychopharmacotherapy
Psychotherapy
Rehabilitation
lectures; audio and videorecorded interview with real patients; role-playing
Neel Burton, Psychiatry 3rd edition, Wiley-Blackwell
Ane Haaland and Sassy Molyneux, Quality information in field research WHO
Pierluigi Politi, Ri-pensare il paziente, Pavia University Press (English version)
written: multiple choice and open-question test aiming at evaluating student's knowledge and attitude to clinical reasoning
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