Curriculum Block

Objectives

• Understand the components of the mental status exam and its place within a full patient history.
• Be able to identify and describe core psychiatric phenomenology.
• Understand the difference between process and content and the role that both play in informing the mental status exam and differential diagnosis.
• Be able to elicit core psychiatric symptomatology during a patient encounter (i.e. mood, anxiety, psychosis, suicide and homicide risk) and have developed a core set of screening questions.
• Be able to complete an accurate written mental status exam.

Assessments

• OSCE #1

• MF4 Brain and Behaviour Mental Status Examination

Tags

Mental Status Examination Diagnosis Brain and Behaviour Medical Foundation 4 Part 4 Week 4 Part 4 Week 12 Psychiatry Clinical Judgement And Decision-Making Anxiety Delirium Depressed Mood Mania / Hypomania Personality Disorders Psychosis Suicidal Behavior Clinical Skills 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. 4.1 Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and sociocultural backgrounds 4.3 Demonstrate sensitivity, honesty, and compassion in difficult conversations, including those about death, end of life, adverse events, bad news, disclosure of errors, and other sensitive topics 4.5 Maintain comprehensive, timely, and legible medical records 5.1 Demonstrate accountability to patients, society, and the profession 5.7 Demonstrate the application of ethical principles to commonly encountered ethical issues such as the provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent, and including compliance with relevant laws, policies, and regulations Clinical Competence [I02.399.630.210] Interview, Psychological [F04.669.599] Mental Status Schedule [F04.586.574]