Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic discipline
MED/25 (PSYCHIATRY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS
Course
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (01/10/2020 - 15/01/2021)
Lesson hours
24 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Advanced understanding of clinical reasoning
Learning outcomes
a. To understand and appraise the core scientific fundaments of clinical psychiatry
b. To gain advanced knowledge in psychopathology and treatment of psychiatric disorders.
c. To be able to diagnose, formulate a prognosis and treatment plan for the most important psychiatric conditions.
Course contents
1.History of Psychiatry
2.Psychopathology
3.Psychiatric treatments
4.Organic psychiatric disorders
5.Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
6.Substance disorders
7.Affective (mood) and anxiety disorders
8.Autism spectrum disorders
9.Ethnopsychiatry and Eating disorders
10.Personality, sleep and sexual disorders
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures, clinical case vignettes
Reccomended or required readings
Psychiatry
Textbook by Neel Burton
Assessment methods
Written
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