Curriculum Block

Objectives

• Compare and contrast the features of psychosis and delirium.
• Identify etiological factors relevant to psychosis and delirium.
• Describe the biology of psychosis.
• Describe the determinants of health in psychotic disorders.
• Describe the major drug classes of antipsychotic medications used to treat psychotic disorders, their mechanisms of action, indications, adverse effects, and pharmacokinetic properties.
• Explain the key features of the mental health and consent to treatment law.
• Develop an approach to aggression for patients with psychosis or delirium.

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Archived Classification Diagnosis Etiology Pharmacology Brain and Behaviour Medical Foundation 4 Part 4 Part 4 Pharmacology Psychiatry Consent Delirium Psychosis 1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests. 2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations. 2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations 2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care. Psychotic Disorders [F03.700.675] Aggression [F01.145.126.125] Delirium [C10.597.606.337.500] Delirium [C23.888.592.604.339.500] Delirium [F01.700.250.500] Informed Consent [N03.706.535.489] Medical History Taking [E01.370.510] Mental Competency [F01.590] Mental Competency [F02.410] Mental Competency [N03.706.535.625] Mental Disorders [F03] Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action [D27.505.519] Pharmacokinetics [G03.787] Pharmacokinetics [G07.690.725] Pharmacologic Actions [D27.505] Psychopharmacology [F04.096.712] Risk Factors [N06.850.490.625.750] Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders [F03.700] Social Determinants of Health [N01.400.675]