Clerkship Objectives

At the end of this clerkship, a student will be able to:

Clerkship Objective

MD Program Objective

Demonstrate the ability to thoroughly assess a patient with potential psychiatric illness, including conducting a complete history, mental status exam and risk assessment.

  • History Taking 1 (I.A.1)

  • Communication Skills 1 (I.F.1)

  • Communication Skills 2 (I.F.2)

  • Characteristics and Mechanisms of Disease 5 (II.B.5)

  • Social Determinants of Health 1 (II.D.1)

Demonstrate the ability to establish a therapeutic alliance with patients from a range of backgrounds and obtain data in an empathetic, respectful, patient-centered and efficient manner

  • Communication skills 1 (I.F.1)

  • Communication skills 2 (I.F.2)

  • Social Determinants of Health 1 (II.D.1)

  • Service 1 (IV.A.1

  • Service 3 (IV.A.3)

  • Honesty and Integrity 2 (IV.C.2)

  • Empathy (IV.D.1)

  • Respect 1 (IV.E.1)

Communicate gathered clinical data, assessments and plans effectively through oral and written presentations

  • Communication Skills 3 (I.F.3)

  • Communication Skills 5 (I.F.5)

Formulate a psychiatric diagnosis for the most common psychiatric illnesses

  • Clinical Reasoning 1 (I.D.1)

  • Clinical Reasoning 2 (I.D.2)

  • Characteristics and Mechanisms of Disease 4 (II.B.4)

  • Characteristics and Mechanisms of Disease 5 (II.B.5)

Design a treatment plan that demonstrates:

1) familiarity with the biological, psychological and social aspects of treatment planning and

2) awareness of the patient, family and community resources

  • Medical Decision Making 1 (I.E.1)

  • Communication Skills 1 (I.F.1)

  • Social Determinants of Health 1 (II.D.1)

  • Healing and Therapeutics 4 (II.C.4)

Recognize key features of psychiatric illnesses in patients from a variety of clinical settings

  • Characteristics and Mechanisms of Disease 4 (II.B.4)

  • Characteristics and Mechanisms of Disease 5 (II.B.5)

Utilize a multi‐modal approach in the treatment of psychiatric disorders

  • Clinical Reasoning 2 (I.D.2)

  • Medical Decisions Making 1 (I.E.1)

  • Medical Decisions Making 2 (I.E.2)

  • Healing and Therapeutics 3 (II.C.3)

  • Healing and Therapeutics 4 (II.C.4)

  • Social Determinants of Health 1 (II.D.1)

Function collaboratively as part of a health care team.

  • Communication Skills 3 (I.F.3)

  • Teamwork 1 (III.C.1)

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