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The purpose of these national listings are to assist senior medical students in finding and learning more about elective rotations offered at sites other than their parent institution. If you would like to submit information for this catalogue, please see the link submit information at the bottom of this page.
INDEX (alphabetical):
LISTINGS:
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Please Navigate to this link: http://www.uams.edu/psych/education/student_programs/
Name of Institution: University
of California, Davis
Location: Sacramento, CA
Name of elective/Course number: PSY 413 Outpatient Psychiatry
Brief description: Interested students will gain experience in the clinical management and treatment of adult outpatients with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders including crisis assessment and intervention, comprehensive outpatient evaluation and development of a differential diagnosis and treatment plan. The latter includes an emphasis on the principles of outpatient psychopharmacology and brief psychotherapy, observation of group psychotherapy, individual supervision by experienced clinicians and participation in clinic conferences. All experiences are within the Department of Psychiatry in Sacramento. This is a valuable elective for students who anticipate careers in primary care specialties, where the management of psychiatric disorders presents a daily challenge to the non-psychiatric physician. Students pursuing careers in psychiatry have an opportunity to learn about outpatient psychiatric practice. Please go to our website for further details: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/psychiatry/education/student/advclerkships.html
Contact Person: Hendry Ton, MD (hton@ucdavis.edu) or Brandi Steichen (brandi.steichen@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu)
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Name of
Institution: University of California, Davis
Location: Sacramento, CA
Name of elective/Course number: PSY 414 Psychosomatic Medicine
Brief description: A large university hospital service in which the student functions as a member of the team in evaluation, management and psychiatric liaison with other medical specialties. Students will have comprehensive supervision from senior staff and psychiatric residents. Please go to our website for further details: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/psychiatry/education/student/advclerkships.html
Contact Person: Hendry Ton, MD (hton@ucdavis.edu) or Brandi Steichen (brandi.steichen@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu)
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Name of
Institution: University of California, Davis
Location: Sacramento, CA
Name of elective/Course number: PSY 417 Forensic Psychiatry
Brief description: Under supervision, student assesses acute and chronic mentally ill inmates in both inpatient and clinic settings. Students will develop their ability to evaluate and treat mentally ill patients in a correctional setting and improve their understanding of the clinical, legal, and ethical issues at the interface between psychiatry and the criminal justice system. Please go to our website for further details: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/psychiatry/education/student/advclerkships.html
Contact Person: Hendry Ton, MD (hton@ucdavis.edu) or Brandi Steichen (brandi.steichen@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu)
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Name of
Institution: University of California, Davis
Location: Sacramento, CA
Name of elective/Course number: PSY 416 Child Psychiatry
Description: Offers didactic and clinical inpatient, outpatient and consultation-liaison experiences with children, adolescents and families. Students may elect to pursue a combination of C-L/outpatient or full C-L experience. Under supervision, student does clinical observation, diagnostic assessment and treatment. Student will also attend regularly scheduled didactics and case conferences with child psychiatry fellows. Please go to our website for further details: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/psychiatry/education/student/advclerkships.html
Contact Person: Hendry Ton, MD (hton@ucdavis.edu) or Brandi Steichen (brandi.steichen@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu)
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Name of
Institution: University of California, Davis
Location: Sacramento, CA
Name of elective/Course number: PSY 419 Group Psychotherapy
Description: Group psychotherapy has become a well accepted modality for providing care to psychiatric patients. For many patients, this context has significant advantages over individual therapy. Senior medical students will rotate through a community mental health clinic with an extensive group psychotherapy program. Students will have opportunity to see patients individually, but the main emphasis will be to participate in cutting-edge group therapies in the following contexts: 1. Medication Support 2. Culture-specific groups for Hmong and Spanish-speaking communities 3. Dialectical Behavior Therapy 4. Cognitive Behavior Therapy targeting Panic Disorder 5. Psychoeducational groups for depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and bipolar spectrum disorders. Please go to our website for further details: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/psychiatry/education/student/advclerkships.html
Contact Person: Hendry Ton, MD (hton@ucdavis.edu) or Brandi Steichen (brandi.steichen@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu)
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Name of
Institution: University of California, Davis
Location: Sacramento, CA
Name of elective/Course number: PSY 420 Inpatient Psychiatry
Description: Acting intern position on a progressive and dynamic inpatient unit. Emphasis on biological psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychodynamic aspects appropriate to diagnosis and management of patients with recurrent depression, bipolar disorder, substance disorders, and schizophrenia chronically mentally ill patients. Please go to our website for further details: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/psychiatry/education/student/advclerkships.html
Contact Person: Hendry Ton, MD (hton@ucdavis.edu) or Brandi Steichen (brandi.steichen@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu)
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Name of
Institution: University of California, Davis
Location: Sacramento, CA
Name of elective/Course number: PSY 421 Combined Medicine-Psychiatry
Description: Students will rotate through the county Primary Care Clinic under the supervision of dual-boarded psychiatry and internal medicine-family practice faculty to provide medical care of indigent and uninsured patients as well as primary care for psychiatry patients. Please go to our website for further details: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/psychiatry/education/student/advclerkships.html
Contact Person: Hendry Ton, MD (hton@ucdavis.edu) or Brandi Steichen (brandi.steichen@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu)
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Name of Institution: Columbia University
Location: New York City
Name of elective/Course number: Psychiatry Advanced Clerkship / PS01P, PS09P, PS02P, PS10P
Brief description: These four week subinternships on inpatient units at Psychiatric Institute and Presbyterian Hospital provide fourth year students the opportunity to serve as primary therapists for patients as part of a multidisciplinary treatment team with close supervision by an attending psychiatrist. Students participate in rounds, case conferences, seminars, and individual supervision with a strong emphasis on differential diagnoses and exposure to the range of psychiatric therapeutic modalities. Inpatient units vary in their patient populations. Additional electives are available in the following areas: child psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, psychiatric research, sexual behavior clinic. See a more detailed description of all electives at: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/ps/electives. The duration of all electives is one calendar month.
Contact Person: Janis Cutler, M.D. cutlerj@pi.cpmc.columbia.edu or assistant Edith White mailto:ew41@columbia.eduor (212) 543-5552.
Name of Institution: Eastern Virginia Medical School (9
listings)
Location: Norfolk, VA
Name of elective/Course number:
PSY404: Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry (four week elective)
Brief description: The student will be exposed to the branch of Psychiatry specializing in the care of the medically ill patient with psychiatric symptoms. The student will participate as an integral member of the consultation team. The rotation takes place a Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. The students will be expected to evaluate, present and write up psychiatric consults. The students will work closely with the residents and attendings, will attend treatment team rounds, follow-up on assigned cases, and attend conferences and grand rounds. Students may also be exposed to subspecialty areas within consultation psychiatry including Geriatric Psychiatry and Sleep Disorders.
Contact Person: David Spiegel, MD, 757-446-5888.
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Name of Institution: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Location: Norfolk, VA
Name of elective/Course number: PSY406:
Behavioral Medicine
Brief description: Students will assist in the assessment and treatment of patients with chronic headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, etc. at the Behavioral Medicine Institute in Newport News. Specific goals include exposure to a systematic clinical procedure for the identification of patients for whom stress is an etiological factor for their presenting symptoms. Students will learn how to administer a psychophysiologic stress profile and evaluate patients for hypnotic susceptibility. Students will also observe Individual Psychotherapy, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Hypnosis, Biofeedback, and Systematic Desensitization.
Contact Person: Lisa Fore-Arcand, Ed.D., 757-446-5888.
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Name of Institution: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Location: Norfolk, VA
Name of elective/Course number: PSY407:
Acting Internship in Psychiatry (4, 6, or 8 week elective)
Brief description: The purpose of the course is to
provide increasing amounts of responsibility for treating psychiatric
inpatients. The student will act as an
intern with primary responsibility for
patient care including evaluation and treatment.
Contact Person: Alaa-Eldin M. Mahmoud, MD, Veterans Administration Hospital (757-722-9961, x2002) or Christine Steinhagen, MD, Sentara Norfolk General Hospital , 757-446-5888.
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Name of Institution: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Location: Norfolk, VA
Name of elective/Course number: PSY408:
Addiction Psychiatry (4 week elective)
Brief description: The students will be exposed to the branch of Psychiatry specializing in the evaluation and treatment of Alcoholism and other Substance Abuse and Dependence. The students will participate as a member of a multidisciplinary team. The rotation takes place at the Hampton VA Medical Center in an intensive outpatient care setting. The students will be expected to actively participate in providing treatment in program activities including: Assessment, Individual and Group Psychotherapy, Community Meetings, Family Counselling, etc.
Contact Person: Baljit S. Gill, MD, 757-722-9961, x2016.
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Name of Institution: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Location: Norfolk, VA
Name of elective/Course number: PSY409: Child
Psychiatry (4 week elective)
Brief description: This course is designed to teach students aspects of child development and child psychiatric illness pertinent to the practice of Child Psychiatry, Family Practice, Pediatrics, Child Neurology, etc. Clinical learning will occur at two sites: on a short-term, family-focused inpatient unit at Norfolk Psychiatric Center, and in the Chesapeake Public Schools. Students will become proficient in child psychiatric assessment and have a beginning knowledge of differential diagnosis, treatment formulation, and appropriate medication choice.
Contact Person: Frank H. Kirchner, MD, 757-446-5888.
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Name of Institution: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Location: Norfolk, VA
Name of elective/Course number:
Neuropsychiatry (4 week elective)
Brief description: The student will gain exposure to neuropsychological assessment, treatment planning and rehabilitation for patients of all ages. They will work work in both inpatient and outpatient settings along side of clinical psychologist faculty in interviewing and providing test interpretations to patients and their families. They will also observe neuropsychological testing techniques and learn about using such assessment in understanding and treating a variety of brain related medical and psychological disorders.
Contact Person: J.D. Ball, PhD. and Michael L. Stutts, Ph.D, 757-446-5888.
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Name of Institution: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Location: Norfolk, VA
Name of elective/Course number: Sleep
Disorders (4 week elective)
Brief description: The course will expose students
to evaluation and treatment of patients of all ages presenting with sleep
disorders at the Sleep Disorder
Center at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
The course will require interaction with the disciplines of Maxillofacial
Surgery, Medicine, Neurology, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and
Psychology.
Contact Person: Dr. Catsby Ware, 757-446-5888.
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Name of Institution: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Location: Norfolk, VA
Name of elective/Course number: PSY412
Psychiatry (4 week elective)
Brief description: The course is designed for students wishing a sub-internship experience in Psychiatry to further develop their skills in assessing and treating mental illness in adults. The course is offered at the Hampton VA Medical Center. Cases may be selected to accommodate specific interests such as alcohol/drug withdrawal, psychosis, dementia, etc. The students will be responsible for assessing patients and implimenting their own treatment plan under the supervision of an attending.
Contact Person: : Alaa-Eldin Mahmoud, MD, 757-722-9961, x 1130.
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Name of Institution: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Location: Norfolk, VA
Name of elective/Course number: PSY413
Emergency Psychiatry (4 week elective)
Brief description: The student will be assigned primarily to the Emergency Room at the Hampton VA Medical Center and be responsible for seeing patients who present with urgent psychiatric problems. Under the supervision of an attending psychiatrist, the student will work directly with Emergency Room staff in assessing, managing, formulating diagnoses.
Contact Person: Martha S. Guyon, MD 757-722-9961,
Name of Institution: Georgetown University
Location:
Georgetown University
Hospital
Name of
elective/Course number:
4295-508
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (4 week elective)/Instructor:
Daniel
Hicks, MD
Brief description: Georgetown University Hospital offers a Consultation/Liaison Elective for 4th year medical students for 4 weeks. The student will be a member of the consult team, evaluating medical-surgical patients for problems with depression, delirium, somatization, substance abuse, psychosis, etc. The student will perform their own consults which will be staffed daily with the attending, and will actively follow and treat the patient as needed. Hours are from 8 AM to 5PM Monday through Friday. The student will also participate in the Medical Illness Clinic weekly, seeing outpatients with medical problems referred for psychiatric evaluation and treatment, and following patients discharged from the hospital consult service. In addition, the student may participate in other specialty outpatient clinics, such as Eating Disorder, Women’s Mental Health, Transplant Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Psychoncology, etc. if time allows. The student will also do a presentation on some aspect of psychiatry in the medically ill to the team.
Contact Person: Office
of the Registrar
202-687-1004
Or visit our website:
http://data.georgetown.edu/som/curriculum/electives.html
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Department: Department of Psychiatry
Name of Institution: McLean Hospital, Administration
Building, Room 218
Location: Belmont, MA
Name of elective/Course number: Advanced Clinical
Psychiatry / PS501M.10a
Brief Description: The McLean Hospital
advanced clerkship provides an opportunity for intense clinical experience and
in-depth exploration of particular areas of interest, including biomedical
aspects of psychotic disorders. Any of the McLean services may be elected,
including: inpatient services, substance abuse, internal medicine, neurology
service, partial hospitalization program, geriatric, and the Mailman Research
Center. Individual supervision and advanced seminars on psychopathology,
psychotherapy and psychopharmacology will be offered. Interviewing techniques
are emphasized if requested. Full- or part-time research programs may be
arranged. Students will be assigned to a preceptor who will help design the
elective according to their needs, interests and goals.
Contact Person: C. N. Kettyle, M.D.; (617) 855-2723
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Department: Department of Psychiatry
Name of Institution: McLean Hospital, Administration
Building, Room 218
Location: Belmont, MA
Name of elective/Course number: Advanced Clerkship in
Diagnosis and Treatment of Major Psychoses / PS501M.10b
Brief Description: Advanced Psychiatry Clerks spend one
month on an inpatient unit of the Bipolar and Psychotic Disorders Program
working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues to learn approaches to the
assessment and treatment of severely mentally ill patients. The experience
focuses on signs and symptoms, differential diagnosis, multidimensional
assessment of patients with psychotic mood disorders or schizophrenia, and
aspects of pharmacological and psychosocial treatment. Students are exposed to
the nationally acclaimed Mailman Research Center and other McLean research
facilities, and are introduced to pertinent research literature. Clerkship
includes a weekly research seminar, psychopharmacology grand rounds, and
outpatient psychopharmacology case conferences. Students will evaluate patients
under supervision, and present at least one oral and written case study at a
staff conference.
Contact Person: C.N. Kettyle, M.D. (617) 855-2723
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Department: Department of Psychiatry
Name of Institution: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Location: Boston, MA
Name of elective/Course number: Psychiatry in Medicine
and Surgery / PS501M.23
Brief Description: The course will provide supervised
experience with psychiatric problems encountered in medicine, surgery and
obstetrics. Under supervision, students will participate as members of the
working clinical team in the evaluation and treatment of psychiatrically
disturbed patients on the wards of a general hospital. Students will also attend
case presentations and psychiatric seminars. Emphasis will be on understanding
the nature of psychological reactions associated with illness and
hospitalization. The course ordinarily will be given in a one-month block but
research proposals for a longer period are available.
Contact Person: A. Fife, M.D. (617) 732-6750
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Department: Department of Psychiatry
Name of Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital
Location: Boston, MA; Warren 605
Name of elective/Course number: Emergency Psychiatry /
PS502M.3
Brief Description: This course uses the Acute
Psychiatric Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the largest
and most active walk-in psychiatric services in New England, as a milieu for the
study of a broad spectrum of psychiatric patients. Under close supervision of
senior staff and residents, students learn techniques of crisis intervention,
how to make a rapid assessment of the major psychiatric disorders, as well as
the major therapeutic approaches used in an acute ambulatory setting. An
intensive seminar on interviewing techniques is conducted by an experienced
clinician. Students also participate in regular teaching conferences, daily
rounds, and grand rounds.
Contact Person: D.B. Greenberg, M.D. (617)
726-2984; K.M. Sanders, M.D.
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Department: Department of Psychiatry
Name of Institution: Massachusetts Mental Health Center,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's
Hospital
Location: Boston, MA; MMHC Chapel
Name of elective/Course number: Advanced Adult
Psychiatry / PS503M.1
Brief Description: The course offers an opportunity to
supplement the Core Clerkship in Psychiatry. The student should contact the
course director beforehand to arrange a program. Students may choose to work
clinically in an area of interest in adult psychiatry (such as day hospital,
inpatient, or consultative work) to which they were not exposed in their core
clerkship. Students will also be welcome to participate in the full range of
didactic seminars that are on-going for the core clerkship, including seminars
on psychopathology, psychopharmacology, psychodynamic concepts, interviewing and
treatment modalities. An outpatient component to this rotation may be possible.
Contact Person: R.M. Goisman, M.D. (617) 626-9549,
robert_goisman@hms.harvard.edu
; W.E. Greenberg, M.D. (617) 667-2740
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Department: Department of Psychiatry
Name of Institution: Children's Hospital
Location: Boston, MA; Fegan 8
Name of elective/Course number: Pediatric Psychiatry /
PS505M.7a
Brief Description: This course consists of experiential,
didactic, and preceptorship components. Students will be assigned to a
psychiatric unit and an outpatient team. The student's level of participation
will be determined by his/her prior experience and knowledge. Students will work
with a child psychiatry fellow and multidisciplinary teams in each setting, and
will receive individualized supervision from staff psychiatrists as well as sit
in on appropriate child fellowship didactic seminars. Students will present
cases to their preceptors who will discuss case material, relevant literature
and related clinical material. Students will have exposure to preschoolers,
school-age children, and adolescents with a variety of psychiatric,
psychosomatic, and reactive disorders. Seminars will be offered on topics such
as psychosexual development, childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders, and
treatment modalities.
Contact Person: S.J. Goldman, M.D. (617) 355-6745
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Department: Department of Psychiatry
Name of Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital
Location: Boston, MA; Warren 605
Name of elective/Course number: Consultation Psychiatry
/ PS509M.3
Brief Description: This advanced course will acquaint
students with the impact of medical illnesses and injuries on the central
nervous system, the psychological response of normal persons to these illnesses,
and the array of psychiatric consultation problems: chronic pain, depression,
disruptive behavior, delirium, dementia, conversion, anxiety, panic,
self-destructive behavior, and the determination of functional contributors to
symptoms and syndromes. Students will join psychiatric residents, psychosomatic
fellows and staff on medical and surgical services and share responsibility for
consultation activities. Senior staff psychiatrists provide supervision.
Students see patients on all clinical services and participate in consult
rounds, walk rounds, grand rounds, and psychosomatic conferences.
Contact Person: D.B. Greenberg, M.D. (617) 726-2984
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Department: Department of Psychiatry
Name of Institution: Cambridge Hospital
Location: Macht Building, Rm 238
Name of elective/Course number: Advanced Psychiatry
Clerkship in a Community Hospital / PS509M.6
Brief Description: This course is for students desiring
to focus on one or more psychiatric programs at the Cambridge Hospital.
Possibilities include the inpatient ward, outpatient clinic, consultation to
medical/surgical wards, alcohol program, drug abuse program, forensic
psychiatry, emergency ward, family therapy, child psychiatry, victims of
violence unit, and cross cultural program (including Haitian, Latino, Asian, and
Portuguese clinics). With the course director, each student will design a
program of personal interest. Students may also combine reading tutorials and
individual preceptorships. Blocks of more than one month are encouraged.
Students must contact the course director several months prior to the start of
the rotation to confirm availability.
Contact Person: A.S. Margulies, M.D. (617) 498-1846
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Department: Department of Psychiatry
Name of Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital
Location: Boston, MA; Warren 605
Name of elective/Course number: Advanced Clerkship in
Inpatient Psychiatry /PS512M.3
Brief Description: This course provides the student with
additional clinical experience in the psychiatric setting. It follows the broad
outline of the clerkship course (500M.3) but on a more advanced level,
emphasizing clinical responsibility for patients. (It is only available when not
filled by core Harvard students.)
Contact Person: D.B. Greenberg, M.D. (617) 726-2984,
J.E. Matthews, M.D.
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Department: Department of Psychiatry
Name of Institution: Massachusetts Mental Health Center
Location: Boston, MA
Name of elective/Course number: Community Psychiatry /
PS525M.9
Brief Description: This elective is for students who
have had a core psychiatry clerkship with a significant interest in community
psychiatry, primary care or public health. Students will have experiences at the
Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC) and affiliated sites, including
psychosocial rehabilitation and residential programs; outpatient team meetings;
supervised patient evaluations in the MMHC Triage Service; the Commonwealth
Research and Evaluation Unit with patients on experimental anti- psychotic
medications; Boston's Health Care for the Homeless Program; and medication
management clinics. Individual supervision will be supplemented by conferences
and directed reading. Students will write a 10-20 page paper relating this
experience to the psychiatry literature.
Contact Person: R.M. Goisman, M.D. (617) 626-9549,
robert_goisman@hms.harvard.edu
Name of Institution: Louisiana State University Health Sciences
Center-Shreveport, LA (6 listings)
Location: Charter Brentwood
Hospital and Schumpert/Bossier Hospitals
Name of elective/Course number:
Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/EPSYB
During this four
week course, the student will be exposed to some information about child
development and child and adolescent psychopathology. Attempts will be made to
offer both verbal and written sources of learning in these areas. In addition to
the didactic exposure, the student will have the opportunity to observe and then
perform interviews with families, children, and adolescents. These interviews
may then be followed up with subsequent visits by the student in order to get
some mini-exposure to continued evaluation. The student will also have to
opportunity to observe adolescent group therapy process. In any event an
interesting case is admitted to the inpatient service here at LSUHSC, attempts
will be made to interview that patient and integrate it with the other learning
exposures.
Contact Person: Kay Johnston, Education Coordinator
Medical Education
Director: Mary Jo Fitz-Gerald, M.D.
Kjohns5@lsuhsc.edu Phone: 318-675-6041
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Name of Institution: Louisiana State University Health Sciences
Center-Shreveport, LA
Location: Psychopharmacology Research Clinic at
LSUHSC
Name of elective/Course number: Psychopharmacology/EPSYE
During this four week course, the student will be exposed to the design and
methodology used in clinical drug trials including measurement of
psychopathology and data collection. Work will be with patients suffering from
generalized anxiety disorder, depression, panic disorder, depression,
schizophrenia, and schizoaffective disorder. The student will be assigned to
both inpatient and outpatient populations.
Contact Person: Kay Johnston, Education Coordinator
Medical Education
Director: Mary Jo Fitz-Gerald, M.D.
Kjohns5@lsuhsc.edu Phone: 318-675-6041
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Name of Institution: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-
Shreveport, LA
Location: Charter Brentwood, Schumpert, and
Willis-Knighton Hospitals
Name of elective/Course number: Private
Practice of Psychiatry/EPSYF
During this four week course, the student
will be involved with physicians who are in the private practice of psychiatry
in the local community. They will have the opportunity to see acute care and
treatment of emotional behavior and neuropsychiatric problems that the private
practitioner is exposed to in his every day practice. The opportunity will be
there to learn utilization of chemotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy, behavior
modification and milieu therapy. Depending on the facility the opportunity will
be there to participate in family interventions. The student will beactively
involved in the evaluation and treatment processes of many different psychiatric
conditions.
Contact Person: Kay Johnston, Education Coordinator
Medical Education
Director: Mary Jo Fitz-Gerald, M.D.
Kjohns5@lsuhsc.edu Phone: 318-675-6041
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Name of Institution: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-
Shreveport, LA
Location: Biomedical Research Institute PET Imaging Center
Name of elective/Course number: EPSYP
The medical student will be exposed
to:
Methodology and techniques of imaging the function of the living, in vivo
brain using PET.
How to measure the physiological response of the human brain
to stimulation.
Basic cognitive neuroscience techniques used in the
functional brain imaging activation paradigms.
The principles and skills
involved in image processing for the purposes of clinical or academic functional
image analysis.
Contact Person: Kay Johnston, Education Coordinator
Medical Education
Director: Mary Jo Fitz-Gerald, M.D.
Kjohns5@lsuhsc.edu Phone: 318-675-6041
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Name of Institution: Louisiana State University Health Sciences
Center-Shreveport, LA
Location: LSU Hospital-Shreveport
Name of
elective/Course number: Inpatient Acting Internship/SIPYA
During this
four week rotation students will have primary responsibility for the care and
treatment of assigned psychiatric patients under the supervision of residents
and/or faculty. The students will gain experience in the common and major mental
disorders in patients hospitalized for acute or severe disease processes. Skills
in performing medical history, physical examination, and mental status will be
enhanced. The student will learn documentation requirements.
Contact Person: Kay Johnston, Education Coordinator
Medical Education
Director: Mary Jo Fitz-Gerald, M.D.
Kjohns5@lsuhsc.edu Phone: 318-675-6041
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Name of Institution: Louisiana State University Health Sciences
Center-Shreveport, LA
Location: Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic
Name
of elective/Course number: Outpatient Psychiatry-Clinic/SOPYA
During this
four week rotation, the student will provide primary contact with patients on
initial (new patient) and follow-up clinic visits under faculty supervision. The
student will improve medical and psychiatric history skills, physical exam, and
mental status exam skills. The student will learn to adapt the history, physical
exam, and mental status exam to what is needed for different patients. Students
will learn about aspects of preventative medical and psychiatric care.
Documentation requirements will be learned. The student will be exposed to
effects of social, cultural, and societal problems and issues on mental health.
Contact Person: Kay Johnston, Education Coordinator
Medical Education
Director: Mary Jo Fitz-Gerald, M.D.
Kjohns5@lsuhsc.edu Phone: 318-675-6041
Name of Institution: Mayo Clinic (7 listings)
Location: Rochester, MN
Name of Elective/Course Number: Addictive Disorders
Brief Description: The Inpatient Addiction Program (IAP) for adults is located in the Generose Building at Saint Marys Hospital. The faculty for the program consists of a staff psychiatrist, residents, and alcohol and drug dependence counselors.
Contact Person: Lois E. Krahn, M.D.; (or Rose Coordinator); krahn.lois@mayo.edu; Ph: 507-284-5916.
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Name of Institution: Mayo Clinic
Name of Elective/Course Number: Adult
Location: Rochester, MN
Brief Description: Students are assigned to Mayo's Outpatient Psychiatry Service in the Generose building under the direct supervision of a staff adult psychiatrist. This service functions as the primary outpatient adult psychiatry referral source for all types of psychiatric outpatient services, including individual, marital and, at times, chemical dependency evaluations. Students observe residents performing evaluations and are given the opportunity to conduct the primary evaluation of various outpatient psychiatric problems, including mood, psychotic disorders, and anxiety disorders.
Contact Person: Lois E. Krahn, M.D.; (or Rose Coordinator); krahn.lois@mayo.edu; Ph: 507-284-5916.
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Name of Institution: Mayo Clinic
Name of Elective/Course Number: Behavioral Medicine
Location: Rochester, MN
Brief Description: Students work directly with a consulting psychologist in the evaluation of both inpatients and outpatients with a variety of behavioral medicine problems.
Contact person: Lois E. Krahn, M.D. (or Rose Coordinator); krahn.lois@mayo.edu: Ph: 1-507-284-5916.
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Name of Institution: Mayo Clinic
Name of Elective/Course Number: Consultation Liaison
Location: Rochester, MN
Brief Description: Students are assigned to the consultation service at Saint Marys Hospital. Their immediate supervisor is the staff psychiatrist assigned to that service at the time of the elective.
Contact person: Lois E. Krahn, M.D. (or Rose Coordinator); krahn.lois@mayo.edu: Ph: 1-507-284-5916.
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Name of Institution: Mayo Clinic
Name of Elective/Course Number: Hospital Subinternship
Location: Rochester, MN
Brief Description: Students are assigned to the General Psychiatry Service in the Generose Building at Saint Marys Hospital. The faculty for the program consists of the staff psychiatrist and the residents.
Contact person: Lois E. Krahn, M.D. (or Rose Coordinator); krahn.lois@mayo.edu: Ph: 1-507-284-5916.
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Name of Institution: Mayo Clinic
Name of Elective/Course Number: Hospital Subinternship
Location: Rochester, MN
Brief Description: This general psychiatry clerkship is located at the Federal Medical Center in the Mental Health Division. There are four units that make up the Mental Health Division ‹ mental health, diagnostic and observation, forensic and chemical dependency. The faculty for the program includes the staff psychiatrist, staff psychologist and the chemical dependency staff.
Contact Person: Lois E. Krahn, M.D.; (or Rose Coordinator); krahn.lois@mayo.edu; Ph: 507-284-5916.
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Name of Institution: Mayo Clinic
Name of Elective/Course Number: Pain Rehabilitation Center
Location: Rochester, MN
Brief Description: The Pain Rehabilitation Center (PRC) is located in the Generose Building at Saint Mary's Hospital. The faculty for the program consists of a staff psychiatrist, staff psychologists, residents, case managers, occupational and physical therapists, and chemical dependence counselors.
Contact person: Lois E. Krahn, M.D. (or Rose Coordinator); krahn.lois@mayo.edu: Ph: 1-507-284-5916.
Name of Instituion: University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Tulsa (4 listings)
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COURSE NUMBER |
COURSE NAME |
DESCRIPTION |
LENGTH OF ROTATION |
ATTENDING |
LOCATION |
YEAR IN PROGRAM |
PSBS 9542 |
Child & Family Psychiatry |
Observation and Interaction with children and adolescents in a
variety of settings.
Working with children and their families.
Prerequisite is PSBS 9520 Psychiatry Clerkship |
2 or 4 weeks |
Marcialee Ledbetter, M.D. |
OU Psych and Pediatric Clinics, The Justice Center &
The Brown Schools |
MS-III or MS-IV
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PSBS 9543 |
Consultative Psychiatry |
Focuses on inpatient and outpatient psychiatric consultation in two
patient-care settings.
Educational experiences occur in conjunction with a resident in
Psychiatry. Special reading
assignments are coordinated by the attending. Students may participate in
Consultation Research as well.
Prerequisite is PSBS 9520 Psychiatry Clerkship. |
4 weeks |
Ondria Gleason, M.D. |
Saint Francis Medical Center and Family Practice
Clinic |
MS-III or MS-IV |
PSBS 9970 |
Off-Campus Elective
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Prerequisite: An off-campus elective is defined as work not at the
College of Medicine, the Health Sciences Center, or in a formally
affiliated hospital; nor under the direct supervision of a member of the
full-time faculty of the College of Medicine. A statement from the course
director of the proposed elective concerning the supervision and grading
of student’s experience and a detailed course description of the
proposed elective are required.
Special procedures must be followed for taking an off-campus
elective and an application form must be completed. (Approval is required from Department
Head, College of Medicine-Tulsa) |
4 or 8 weeks
|
William Yates, M.D. (and other faculty) |
To Be Determined |
MS-IV only |
PSBS 9990 |
Psychiatry Special Studies |
A
special studies course is designed to provide an in-depth study of a
specific subject in a particular area or discipline for which there is
no existing approved course.
The purpose of this elective is to allow the student to spend a period
of time in full-time study working directly with a faculty member to
further enhance the student’s clinical and/or research skills. The elective may be repeated with
a change of subject matter.
A Special Studies Course form must be submitted. (Approval is required from Associate
Dean, College of Medicine-Tulsa) |
2 or 4 weeks |
William Yates, M.D. (and other faculty) |
To Be Determined |
MS-IV only |
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For all 18 electives listed:
University
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
(
For more
specific information refer to
www.wpic.pitt.edu/PsychMedStudent/Fourth_Year_Electives
Or contact Jason
Rosenstock (246-6495) or
Angela Labuda at (412) 246-6497 or labudaac@upmc.edu
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PSYC 5410 O |
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Acting Internship in Psychiatry |
Students may participate in a number of acting internships
available in Psychiatry for either four or eight weeks. The student will be
assigned to an inpatient unit at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. This
experience will enhance your skills in dealing with assessment and management of
psychiatric patients. Inpatient units available for acting internships include:
Geriatrics, Schizophrenia, Dual Diagnosis (drug and alcohol), General Adult, and
Eating Disorders.
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PSYC 5411 O |
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Acting Internship in Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry |
Students may participate in a four or eight week elective in
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry available through Western Psychiatric Institute
and Clinic's Child and Adolescent Inpatient Service. The student will be a
member of a multidisciplinary team consisting of attending psychiatrist, social
worker, nurse practitioner, teacher and nursing staff. The student will
manage assigned patients directly under the guidance of attending physician.
Acting interns will
interact with families and the patient's outpatient treatment team to gain
collateral information, update case progress, and provide psychoeducation.
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Psychiatric Emergency Services |
The Psychiatric Emergency Service elective can be taken as a
four, eight or twelve week clerkship. the Psychiatric Emergency Service (
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PSYC 5425 |
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Management of Psychiatric Illness in the Primary
Care Setting |
This four-week elective is designed to allow students to learn
psychiatry in various primary care settings. Learning will also be
interdisciplinary and will involve working with various healthcare professionals
including social workers, nurse practitioners, primary care physicians and
psychiatrists. Students will divide their time between the various clinics
that are stated above. There will be some flexibility to allow for
individual student interest and individual projects are encouraged. The
main goal of the elective is to learn to identify and manage psychiatric illness
in the primary care setting.
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Triple Board Acting Internship |
The Triple Board (TB) Acting Internship at the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has been designed to provide the interested
medical student with an exposure to the interface of pediatrics and child
psychiatry. This four week
internship will focus primarily on the psychiatric consultation-liaison service
at Children’s
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PSYC 5441 |
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Outpatient Adolescent Psychiatry |
This is a four-week elective in which the student will manage
adolescent patients in Day Treatment Program. It is designed to deliver
intensive psychiatric treatment to teens. Students will work one-on-one
with attending psychiatrists to diagnosis, assess, and manage patients along
with attending weekly treatment teams and group sessions. Elective field
trips can be made to
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PSYC 5450 O |
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Geriatric Psychiatry |
Geriatric Psychiatry is a four or eight-week elective that can
be tailored to the interest of the student. Arrangements can be made to
spend time on the Geriatric Inpatient Units, The Benedum Geriatric Outpatient
Clinic, The Alzheimer's Disease Research center, Nursing Homes and In-Home
Geriatric assignments. Supervision will be built in on all components and
learning objectives will focus on assessment, utilization of multiple services
for the elderly and psychotropic drug management in the elderly.
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PSYC 5460 S |
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Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry |
This four or eight-week elective focuses on psychiatric
problems in medical and surgical patients. Under the supervision of faculty, the
student responds to requests from physicians for psychiatric evaluation of
patients on inpatient units throughout the medical center. The student conducts
the clinical evaluation, investigates any ward management difficulties, assesses
the role of the patient's family in the clinical problem, makes treatment
recommendations and provides appropriate follow-up during the patient's hospital
stay. The multidisciplinary team on the service attempts to integrate the
biological with the psychosocial perspective to achieve a comprehensive view of
patient care. Learning opportunities include: supervised clinical assessments;
hospital rounds; case conferences; and seminars.
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PSYC 5465 X |
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Introduction to Community Psychiatry |
This elective will help students learn how to care for
seriously and persistently mentally ill adults and adolescents who are in
community-based psychiatric treatment programs. The flagship experience will be
with the Community Treatment Team (CTT), an assertive community treatment
approach to caring for very ill patients with different diagnoses. Students will
precept with team psychiatrists, get exposure to group and individual therapy,
and follow one or two patients for continuing care over the month. Home visits
and other community outreach will be an integral part, along with collaboration
with a variety of team members and other providers. Students will also be
involved in case management, treatment teams, and systems liaisoning (e.g.,
helping patients leave state hospitals and return to the community).
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PSYC 5471 |
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This is a four or eight-week elective at
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PSYC 5485 |
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Services and Research for Recovery in Serious
Mental Illness – Adult Intensive Outpatient Program |
The Intensive Outpatient Program of SRRSMI helps acutely ill
psychiatric patients stabilize in the community. A two to twelve week
program, the IOP serves as a step-down for hospitalized patients or a way to
divert deteriorating patients from inpatient units. SRRSMI IOP patients
have a mix of mood and psychotic disorders, frequently with significant
comorbidities. Most of the treatment occurs in group settings, from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, with additional individual and family sessions through the
week, all provided by the multidisciplinary treatment team. The medical
student on service in IOP would participate in a variety of clinical
experiences: 1) running group psychotherapy sessions; 2) carrying a small
caseload of individual patients for both individual psychotherapy and
pharmacotherapy; 3) conducting family sessions as indicated; 4) performing
assessments and intakes on new patients referred for treatment; and 5)
participating in treatment meetings. Supervision will be provided by the
IOP psychiatrists.
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PSYC 5500 O |
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Neuropsychiatric
Disorders & Developmental Disabilities
in Children, Adolescents & Adults |
The John Merck Program specializes in the assessment and
treatment of children, adolescents and adults who have a developmental
disability and behavioral/mental health disorder, with a special focus in autism
spectrum disorders. Outpatient and inpatient assessment and treatment
services are available in specialized programs for children, adolescents and
adults. The reason for admission is acute psychiatric/behavioral
symptomatology (i.e. aggression, depression, impulsivity, hyperactivity,
self-injurious behaviors, etc). The treatment team consists of a
psychiatrist, behavioral psychologist, psychiatric social worker, special
education teacher and psychiatric nurse.
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PSYC 5510 |
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Sleep and Its Disorder |
This course combines the expertise of psychiatry and pulmonary
medicine to give students a unique educational experience in assessing and
managing patients with sleep disorders. For their four week experience,
students will be expected to learn how to evaluate patients for sleep problems
by taking a sleep history and fitting complaints into a general medical and
psychiatric context, ultimately making recommendations on work-up (e.g.,
polysomnography) and treatments (e.g., behavioral therapy for insomnia).
The goals of this elective are: 1) to provide a basic knowledge of sleep,
including aspects of neurophysiology, sleep regulation and the relationship of
sleep stages to other physiological processes; and 2) to allow the student to
develop basic skills in the application of this knowledge to the comprehensive
assessment of patients with complaints of disturbed sleep. Students will assist
in the evaluation of patients with a variety of sleep disorders, including
insomnias, hypersomnias, parasomnias, and breathing-related sleep disorders like
obstructive sleep apnea. Students will participate in history taking and
in the administration of a semi-structured interview to patients and their bed
partners. They will also learn general and specific principles and procedures of
polysomnography and will participate in the process of data interpretation and
treatment recommendations. Students will also attend clinics and observe sleep
studies, in order to learn about specialized techniques for evaluating sleep
apnea. Inpatient consultations will round out the clinical experience for
students. A pediatric sleep experience will be included. Students
will also be able to work on ongoing research projects and participate in formal
educational activities such as sleep grand rounds and journal club.
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PSYC 5531 |
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Women's Issues in Psychiatry |
This is a four week elective which provides students with the
opportunity to assess and treat psychiatric disorders in women in both the
outpatient and research settings as well as part of the Consultation and Liaison
Service (inpatients at Magee Women’s Hospital). Students may also attend
sessions at the Eating Disorder Partial Program and the Magee Women’s Midlife
Clinic. This rotation requires some
evening and Saturday morning commitment.
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Child and Adolescent Affective Disorder Research |
The Child and Adolescent Affective Disorders Service offers a
four week elective to senior medical students. The elective provides outpatient
experience with problems related to depression anxiety, obsessive compulsive
disorder and bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. The goals of this
elective are: 1) to understand the manifestations of affective disorder in
childhood and adolescence; 2) to learn structured assessment techniques for
childhood Axis I psychiatric disorders; and 3) to become familiar with several
different research methodologies used in this population including
neuroendocrine and pharmacological treatment studies.
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PSYC 5892 O |
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Psychophysiology |
This eight-week elective provides an introduction to the
techniques used to study the autonomic nervous system responsivity to
psychological events in humans. Autonomic control of somatic function provides a
mechanism for psychological influence on physiology and pathophysiology. Basic
non-invasive electrophysiological techniques will be taught as well as basic
research.
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PSYC 5895 O |
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Independent Research |
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FACULTY: Psychiatry staff
This course provides students an opportunity to pursue
independent research in a chosen area of interest within the field of
psychiatry. Students are encouraged to design their independent study
electives around their individual interests. Examples of research areas
include but are not limited to: Epidemiology of major psychiatric disorders,
Outpatient management of cognitive disorders, Outpatient behavioral treatment of
anxiety disorders, Behavioral techniques in the management of general medical
disease, and Outpatient substance abuse disorders and their management.
Dr. Rosenstock is available to assist you in designing your elective.
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PSYC 5897 |
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Behavioral Medicine |
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FACULTY: Marsha Marcus, Ph.D., Lin Ewing, R.N.,
Ph.D.
A four or eight week rotation aimed at familiarizing the
student with theory and practical applications of Clinical Behavioral Medicine
across the life span.
University of South
Carolina School of Medicine /A>
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Name of Elective/Course #: Introduction to Psychotherapy NPSY D622 (4 week elective)
Brief Description: Goals are to impart further knowledge of psychodynamic theories and gain skill in its application to indiv