Developmental Disabilities and Dual Diagnosis
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
Understand the terminology associated with intellectual disabilities, including definitions used internationally. Know the DSM-5 criteria for intellectual disability. Differentiate between different levels of developmental disability (i.e. mild/moderate/severe/profound) in terms of developmental age, IQ level, and adaptive skills. Identify possible etiologies of intellectual disabilities.

Curriculum Block

Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation
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Objectives

Clerkship Objectives

Tags

Basic Sciences
Diagnosis
Curriculum Block
Clerkship Psychiatry Rotation
Discipline
Psychiatry
MCC Presentations
Adults with Developmental Disabilities Attention, Learning and School Problems Developmental Delay
McMaster Program Competencies
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
MeSH
Autism Spectrum Disorder [F03.625.164.113] Developmental Disabilities [F03.625.421] Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry) [E01.190] Psychiatry and Psychology [F]