PSY 3101 Child and Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry Selective
The course allows students to explore their interest in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as well as learn important developmental influences on adult behavior. Students participate in outpatient assessments and treatment of children, adolescents and their families, to include multidisciplinary conferences, child and family assessments, and lectures under the supervision of WRNMMC Child and Adolescent Faculty and ACGME Fellows.
Goals and Objectives:
1. Understand common psychiatric diagnoses and appropriate treatment approaches for common childhood behavioral disorders encountered in a child behavioral health clinic;
2. Gain confidence working with families while assessing both familial and environmental impacts on a child;
3. Develop an understanding of psychiatric illnesses over the course of a lifetime and the difference early interventions can make;
4. Submit at least two written BRIEF but comprehensive Psychiatric assessments (to include a defensible formulation, differential diagnosis, and treatment plan) in conjunction with an oral presentation of each to the program attending, followed by review of each report by the program attending.
Available site: Walter Reed (WRNMMC), MD.
Academic Level/Year: Clerkship year
Prep: Students DO NOT need to complete the psychiatry Clerkship to participate
Slots Available/rotation: 1 (one) student rotation, with some rotations not being available
*Students must confirm enrollment with Psychiatry Course Coordinators (psychiatrycourses@usuhs.edu) to assure availability.
Offered
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), MD.