Psychiatry Clerkship Guide
By- Myrl Manley, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
This guide equips you with the practical core knowledge you need to manage the patients you're most likely to see during your psychiatry clerkship. Brief enough to read from cover to cover, yet thorough enough to address virtually all the challenges you might face, Psychiatry Clerkship Guide is just the tool you need to succeed. Broken into three sections, the book first introduces you to basic skills and concepts, including ethics, history, physical examination, and developmental assessment. It then goes on to describe specific psychiatric health conditions, organized by presentation (symptom, sign, abnormal lab value) and by diagnosisallowing you to approach a problem from either direction.
Audience
Medical Students
Paperback, 544 Pages
Published: June 2007
Imprint: Mosby
ISBN: 978-1-4160-3132-1
Contents
- I-A. Orientation to the Psychiatry Clerkship
1. The patient's day on the inpatient unit
2. The medical student's role on the inpatient service
3. The medical student in the outpatient clinic
4. The medical student on the consultation/liaison service
5. The medical student in the psychiatric emergency room
I-B. Evaluating the patient
6. Using DSM-IV
7. The history and mental status examination
8. The medical evaluation of psychiatric patients
9. Psychological testing
II. Symptoms, signs, and abnormal laboratory values
10. Hallucinations
11. Delusions
12. Disorganized thinking and speech
13. Mood disturbances
14. Anxiety
15. Memory loss
16. Suicidality
17. Violence
18. Sleep disturbance
19. Sexual symptoms
20. Changes in appetite and eating disturbances
III. Patients with a known condition
21. Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
22. Major depression
23 Bipolar disorder
24. Anxiety disorders
25. Substance-related disorders
26. Delirium and dementia
27. Personality disorders
28. Eating disorders
29. Sleep disorders
30. Sexual dysfunctions
31. Somatoform disorders, factitious disorders and malingering
32. Disorders of childhood and adolescence
33. Medication-induced movement disorders
