New York University School of Medicine
Below are the listings for this program (12 electives):
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY 10016
Title: Psychiatric Education & Publication
Preceptor: Benjamin Sadock, M.D.
Course Code: 14-01
Prerequisites: Any One Core Clerkship
Interview with Preceptor
Description:
For students interested in academic psychiatry, writing or publishing, this elective offers the opportunity to develop cognitive skills in clinical psychiatry and behavioral sciences as well as the opportunity to participate in the preparation standard textbooks in the field: The Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Synopsis of Psychiatry,. The student's experience will be augmented by individual tutorials held weekly.
Objectives of the Elective:
The student can choose one or several objectives: (1) conduct reviews of the literature on clinical or educational issues relating to the teaching of psychiatry (2) analyze the role of doctor as portrayed in the media (3) study medical student characteristics including stress, study habits, choice of career and (4) learn the art of medical publishing from writing and editing manuscripts to the final stages of galley and page proof.
Key Responsibilities of the Student While on Elective:
1. The student is responsible for gathering data in the area of his or her choice and developing a thesis to pursue and study.
Didactic Program:
The program is conducted as a tutorial in which the chosen area of study is examined and discussed.
Method of Evaluation:
Students evaluate themselves based upon their own expectations and performance with the advice of Dr. Sadock.
Scheduling Information:
Months Offered: All Year
Report To: Bellevue Hospital 20N11
Students Per Period: 1
Duration: Four Weeks
All arrangements for the Psych electives must be made with Lindsay Maddocks at 212 263-6237.
E-mail: maddol01@popmail.med.nyu.edu
Department
of Psychiatry
New York
University School of Medicine
550 First
Avenue
New York,
NY 10016
Title:
Inpatient Psychiatry
Preceptor:
Ze'ev Levin, MD
Course Code: 14-25
Prerequisites: Any One Core Clerkship
Description:
Students gain an increased knowledge of psychopathology, psychiatric diagnosis, and psychotherapeutics, and experience the evaluation and management of psychiatric inpatients representing a broad range of psychiatric disturbances.
Key Responsibilities of the Student while on Elective:
Students serve as primary therapists in evaluating newly admitted patients, formulating a differential diagnosis prescribing treatment and monitoring progress. Students are responsible for both the physical and psychiatric health of patients they are assigned. For students who have completed a core clerkship in psychiatry, this elective will be at the level of a subinternship.
Didactic Program
Elective students participate in all ward teaching activities including weekly case conferences in addition they are invited to attend all psychiatry clerkship lectures and seminars, and the second year psychiatry residents' lecture series.
Method of Evaluation:
Students are evaluated on the basis of their day to day care of patients and daily clinical supervision by residents and attending staff.
Scheduling Information:
Months Offered: All Year
Report To: Bellevue Hospital 19N Unit
Students Per Period: 1
Duration: Four Weeks
All arrangements for the Psych electives must be made with Lindsay Maddocks at 212 263-6237.
E-mail: maddol01@popmail.med.nyu.edu
Department
of Psychiatry
New York
University School of Medicine
550 First
Avenue
New York,
NY 10016
Title: Psychoanalytic Medicine
Course Code:14-02
Preceptor: Liz Horowitz, M.D.
Prerequisites: Any One Core Clerkship
Description:
The faculty of the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute, in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, offers an elective in Psychoanalytic Medicine. This elective provides the students with the opportunity to learn about psychoanalysis as a clinical field of practice, to become familiar with the psychoanalytic point of view, and to understand the relationship of psychoanalysis to general psychiatry and to medicine in general. The elective aims to introduce students to the basic principles of modern psychoanalytic theory and practice, and demonstrate their applicability in a variety of psychiatric settings and treatment of modalities. It is hoped that students will acquire a greater appreciation and understanding of the usefulness of psychodynamic listening, interviewing and formulation.
Key Responsibilities of the Student while on Elective:
1. Supervised in-depth evaluation interviews with suitable outpatients, in one of NYU School of Medicine's affiliated mental health clinics.
2. An individualized reading tutorial.
3. Attendance at psychoanalytically-oriented classes taught by Institute faculty in the NYU Psychiatric Residency Program and the Institute itself.
Prior exposure to analytic approaches varies widely and is not necessary to participate in this elective. All students are contacted prior to beginning the experience at NYU to best tailor the program to their needs, interests and level of experience. An Institute faculty member at the Department of Psychiatry serves as a preceptor for the student and oversees this elective.
Didactic Program:
1. Weekly psychoanalytic reading tutorial.
2. Two weekly individual case supervision meetings.
3. Weekly meeting with elective preceptor.
4. PGY-1 Lecture- "Introduction to Psychodynamics in the Bellevue Psychiatric
Emergency Room" (Mondays 12:30-1:30 PM)
5. PGY-2 Lecture- "Introduction to Psychodynamic Theory"
(Wednesdays 1:00-2:00 PM)
6. NYU Psychiatric Associates Case Conference (Tuesdays 12:30-1:45 PM)
7. NYU Psychoanalytic Institute First Year classes (Saturday mornings)
Title:
Psychoanalytic Medicine (cont.) Preceptor: Liz Horowitz, M.D.
Tel: 689-7580
Course
Code:14-02
Prerequisites: Any One Core Clerkship
Method of Evaluation:
Students are evaluated based on comments from supervisors, tutorial instructors, and the elective preceptor. Students demonstrate their learning primarily through discussions with these members of the Institute faculty, and also in written case summaries and psychodynamic formations of the patients they interviewed.
Scheduling Information:
Months Offered: All Year
Report to: Call Dr. Horowitz two weeks prior for location.
Students per period: 1
Duration: Four
Arrangements for all psych electives must be made with Lindsay Maddocks at 212 263-6237.
E-mail: maddol01@popmail.med.nyu.edu
Department
of Psychiatry
New York
University School of Medicine
550 First
Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Title:
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Preceptor: Asher Aladjem, M.D.
Course
Code: 14-06
Prerequisites: Any One Core Clerkship
Description:
For students interested in psychiatry, this is an opportunity to combine the medical and psychiatric experience by working on the medical and surgical services as psychiatric consultants. There is a wide range of clinical problems seen as this service provides psychiatric consultation for all inpatients who require evaluation and treatment while hospitalized. The student works with Residents and Attendings in Psychiatry. In addition to the individual supervision, the student participates in regularly scheduled clinical case conferences, journal club, and consultation/liaison seminars.
Objectives of the Elective:
The objective of the elective is to provide the student with a rich clinical experience with academic stimulation. There are ample opportunities for the student to participate in rounds, discussions of differential diagnosis, developing treatment plans, follow-up throughout the general hospital on different services: medicine, surgery, virology, etc.
Key Responsibilities of the Student While on Elective:
1. Participate in walk rounds, weekly conferences, consultation-liaison journal club, departmental grand rounds.
2. Exposure to a wide range of consultations in both in-patient and out-patient settings.
3. Attendance at rounds in different services—primary care, dialysis, AIDS.
Didactic Program:
The student participates by observing in a large number of daily consultations with residents, fellows and attendings. The student is also included in a variety of services and will attend PGY-II C-L lectures.
Method of Evaluation:
Students are evaluated for their motivation, interest, and knowledge for the level of training, as well as discussion of cases and presenting.
Scheduling Information:
Months offered: All Year
Report to: Bellevue Hospital 19W19
Number of Students: 2
Duration: Four Weeks
Arrangements for psychiatry electives must be made with Lindsay Maddocks 212 263-6237
E-mail: maddol01@popmail.med.nyu.edu
Department
of Psychiatry
New York
University School of Medicine
550 First
Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Title: Comprehensive Psychiatric
Emergency
Program "CPEP"
Preceptor: Van Yu, M.D.
Course Code: 14-07
Prerequisites: Any One Core Clerkship
Description:
This elective gives the student the unique opportunity to participate in the evaluation, diagnosis, and the short-term treatment planning for patients in the Bellevue Psychiatry Emergency Room. Under close supervision by the faculty and staff of this service, the student gains experience in interviewing, diagnosing, and managing the acute psychiatric patient. The student sees a very wide range of pathology from adjustment disorders to frank psychoses to complex multisystem illnesses. Students work with the attending psychiatrists as well as the Director of the Bellevue Psychiatry Emergency Services.
Objectives of the Elective:
The objectives of the elective are as follows: Perform a thorough mental status exam. Differentiate functional from organic disorders. Define and identify common psychotic, affective and characterological disorders. Recognize interaction of substance abuse with other syndromes. Assess dangerous ideation and behavior. Make appropriate disposition decisions. Appropriately utilize medications and recognize major side effects. Demonstrate appropriate use of chemical and physical restraint. Understand and comply with the Mental Hygiene Law.
Key Responsibilities of the Student while on the Elective:
Two sites are available. The student may elective to work primarily in the Bellevue ER or in the field with the Mobile Crisis Unit. In both settings the student will:
1. Perform comprehensive assessments, make dispositions recommendations, formulate the initial treatment plan and initiate pharmacological and psychological interventions under the direct supervision of an emergency psychiatry attending.
2. Attend and discuss their cases at rounds, participate in team meetings, present to the major interdisciplinary case conference, and attend lectures and seminars.
Title: Comprehensive Psychiatric Preceptor: Van Yu, M.D.
Emergency Program "CPEP" (cont.)
Course Code: 14-07
Prerequisites: Any One Core Clerkship
Didactic Program:
Students participate in the residency Emergency Psychiatry curriculum to the extent that their schedule permits. It includes assessment of the emergency presentations of the major psychiatric illnesses, suicide and violence, and the major acute treatments and forensic issues.
Method of Evaluation:
Students are assigned to a preceptor who meets with the student regularly and conducts their evaluation. Students are formally evaluated by the same method as psychiatry residents, a mock board oral examination.
Scheduling Information:
Months Offered: All Year
Report to: Bellevue Hospital "CPEP" ground floor
Students per period: 1
Duration: Four weeks
Arrangements for all psychiatry electives must be made with Lindsay Maddocks 212 263-6237.
E-mail: maddol01@popmail.med.nyu.edu
Department
of Psychiatry
New York
University School of Medicine
550 First
Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Title: Treatment of Dual Diagnosis
Preceptor: Petros Levounis, M.D.
Course
Code: 14-12
Prerequisites: Any One Core Clerkship
Description:
This elective involves the student in the clinical evaluation and treatment of in-patients with both substance abuse and psychiatric disorders. The student learns about behavior modification technique, group therapy technique, biological therapies specifically designed for this patient population, and individual therapies. The student assumes direct responsibility for the diagnosis and management for their patients under the close supervision of the unit faculty. This experience is augmented by individual tutorials, journal club addressing the issues pertinent to the dual diagnosis patient, and the division-wide grand rounds and case conferences. The student has the opportunity to learn about on-going research in this field by participating in on-going research projects.
Objectives of the Elective:
The objectives of the elective are to gain knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of addiction, mental illness and dual diagnosis.
Key Responsibilities of the Student While on Elective:
1. The management of 3-6 patients.
2. Participation in academic conferences.
3. Participation in research protocols.
Didactic Program:
1. Daily Rounds.
2. Monthly Grand Rounds.
3. Inservice Weekly Rounds.
4. Weekly Medical Student Conference.
Method of Evaluation:
The student will be evaluated based on their participation in ward activities and 3 patient write-ups.
Scheduling Information:
Months offered: All Year
Report to: Bellevue Hospital 20 East Unit
Students per period: 1
Duration: Four weeks